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Internal Increasing Returns to Scale and Economic Growth
List, John A. - 2012
This study develops a model of endogenous growth based on increasing returns due to firms' technology choices. Particular attention is paid to the implications of these choices, combined with the substitution of capital for labor, on economic growth in a general equilibrium model in which the...
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Economic Integration and Endogenous Growth
Rivera-Batiz, Luis A.; Romer, Paul M. - 2021
In a world with two similar, developed economies, economic integration can cause a permanent increase in the worldwide rate of growth. Starting from a position of isolation, closer integration can be achieved by increasing trade in goods or by increasing flows of ideas. We consider two models...
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Internal Increasing Returns to Scale and Economic Growth
List, John A.; Zhou, Haiwen - 2021
This study develops a model of endogenous growth based on increasing returns due to firms' technology choices. Particular attention is paid to the implications of these choices, combined with the substitution of capital for labor, on economic growth in a general equilibrium model in which the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013225176
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Growth Without Scale Effects
Young, Alwyn - 2021
An increase in the size (scale) of an economy increases the total quantity of rents that can be captured by successful innovators which, in equilibrium, should lead to a rise in innovative activity. Conventional wisdom and the theoretical predictions of models of endogenous innovation suggest...
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Population and Ideas : A Theory of Endogenous Growth
Jones, Charles I. - 2021
Why do economies exhibit sustained growth in per capita income? This paper argues that endogenous fertility and increasing returns to scale are the fundamental ingredients in understanding endogenous growth. Endogenous fertility leads the scale of the economy to grow over time. Increasing...
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The World Income Distribution
Acemoglu, Daron; Ventura, Jaume - 2021
We show that even in the absence of diminishing returns in production and techno-logical spillovers, international trade leads to a stable world income distribution. This is because specialization and trade introduce de facto diminishing returns: countries that accumulate capital faster than...
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Evidence on Growth, Increasing Returns and the Extent of the Market
Beaulieu, Joseph - 2011
We examine two sets of economies, (19th century U.S. states and 20th century less developed countries) where growth rates are positively correlated with initial levels of development to document how these dynamic increasing returns operate. We find that open economies do not display a positive...
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Increasing Returns and New Developments in the Theory of Growth
Romer, Paul M. - 2021
From the beginning, growth theory has been faced with technically challenging questions about increasing returns and … the way to capture ideas in a model of market exchange. Initially, reliance on perfect competition forced growth theory to … competition have allowed growth theory to address broader questions like: Why have growth rates tended to increase over time? Why …
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Using Firm Optimization to Evaluate and Estimate Returns to Scale
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2008
At the firm level, revenue and costs are well measured but prices and quantities are not. This paper shows that because of these data limitations estimates of returns to scale at the firm level are for the revenue function, not production function. Given this observation, the paper argues that,...
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Prices and Market Shares in a Menu Cost Model
Burstein, Ariel T. - 2007
Pricing complementarities play a key role in determining the propagation of monetary disturbances in sticky price models. We propose a procedure to infer the degree of firm-level pricing complementarities in the context of a menu cost model of price adjustment using data on prices and market...
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