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Acemoglu, Daron - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Does capital accumulation increase labor demand and wages? Neoclassical production functions, where capital and labor are q-complements, ensure that the answer is yes, so long as labor markets are competitive. This result critically depends on the assumption that capital accumulation does not...

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Endogenous Innovation in the Theory of Growth

Grossman, Gene M. - 1993

This paper makes the case that purposive, profit-seeking investments in knowledge play a critical role in the long-run growth process. First, we review the implications of neoclassical growth theory and the more recent theories of 'endogenous growth'. Then we discuss the empirical evidence that...

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Localized and Biased Technologies : Atkinson and Stiglitz's New View, Induced Innovations, and Directed Technological Change

Acemoglu, Daron - 2014

. After linking these ideas to the induced innovation literature of the 1960s and the more recent directed technological …

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Technology (and Policy) Shocks in Models of Endogenous Growth

Jones, Larry E. - 1999

Is there a trade-off between fluctuations and growth? The empirical evidence is mixed, with some studies (Kormendi and Meguire (1985)) finding a positive relationship, while others (Ramey and Ramey (1995)) finding the a negative one. Our objective in this paper is to understand how fundamental...

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Financial Innovation and Endogenous Growth

Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2009

Is financial innovation necessary for sustaining economic growth? To address this question, we build a Schumpeterian … innovation: they can invent better methods for screening entrepreneurs. Second, every screening process becomes less effective as … technology advances. The model predicts that technological innovation and economic growth eventually stop unless financiers …

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Technological Growth and Asset Pricing

Gârleanu, Nicolae B. - 2009

In this paper we study the implications of general-purpose technological growth for asset prices. The model features two types of shocks: "small", frequent, and disembodied shocks to productivity and "large" technological innovations, which are embodied into new vintages of the capital stock....

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Growing by Leaps and Inches : Creative Destruction, Real Cost Reduction, and Inching Up

Darby, Michael R. - 2002

Most firms achieve perfective progress, incrementally improving commodities or productivity. But technological progress is concentrated in a few firms achieving metamorphic progress: forming or transforming industries with technological breakthroughs (e.g., biotechnology, lasers, semiconductors,...

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International Technology Diffusion

Keller, Wolfgang - 2001

I discuss the concept and empirical importance of international technology diffusion from the point of view of recent work on endogenous technological change. In this literature, technology is viewed as technological knowledge. I first review the major concepts, and how international technology...

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Directed Technical Change

Acemoglu, Daron - 2001

For many problems in macroeconomics, development economics, labor economics, and international trade, whether technical change is biased towards particular factors is of central importance. This paper develops a simple framework to analyze the forces that shape these biases. There are two major...

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What is Driving US and Canadian Wages : Exogenous Technical Change or Endogenous Choice of Technique?

Beaudry, Paul - 1998

This paper proposes a new and unified explanation for the following trends observed over the last 25 years: (1) the increased returns to education, (2) the slow measured growth in TFP in an economy undergoing massive changes in its methods of production, and (3) the poor wage performance,...

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