Showing 1 - 10 of 93
We investigate the short- and long-term effects of a natural gas boom in an economy where energy can be produced with coal, natural gas, or clean sources and the direction of technology is endogenous. In the short run, a natural gas boom reduces carbon emissions by inducing substitution away...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372414
We develop an endogenous growth model with heterogeneous firms facing financial frictions, where misallocation emerges … explicitly as a crucial endogenous state variable and plays a significant role in driving economic growth through the valuation … aggregate growth. In equilibrium, slow-moving misallocation endogenously generates long-run uncertainty about economic growth by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014486238
How should industrial policies be directed to reduce distortions and foster economic development? We study this question in a multi-sector model with technology adoption, where the production of goods and modern technologies features rich network structures. We provide simple formulas for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512084
abundant. Automating productivity growth may lead to broad-based gains in the returns to all factors. By contrast, bottlenecks … to growth from irreproducible scarce factors may exacerbate the decline in wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512109
This paper examines the impact of roads on structural transformation and business composition theoretically and empirically. We develop a two-sector model of regional trade with endogenous firm entry that highlights two opposing forces. \textit{Ceteris paribus} lower trade costs in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014544726
economy with uneven productivity growth, income effects, and consumption complementarity across sectoral outputs. During early …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014544753
To fill the knowledge gap that previous studies ignore either housing or internal urban structure and to enable better … fit with important stylized facts, we construct a two-sector optimal growth model of housing where housing is produced by … housing and housing and land prices. The model is then calibrated to fit part of the stylized facts: faster growth of housing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388872
Transformative technologies like generative artificial intelligence promise to accelerate productivity growth across …, a higher growth rate leads to slower optimal adoption. Equilibrium adoption is inefficient when firms do not internalize …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322848
This paper asks whether increasing productivity in the electricity sector can yield larger long-run GDP gains than suggested by electricity's small share of aggregate economic activity. We answer this question using a dynamic multi-sector model in which electricity is a strong complement to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468241
This paper uses a large language model to develop an ex-ante measure of the commercial potential of scientific findings. In addition to validating the measure against the typical holdout sample, we validate it externally against 1.) the progression of scientific findings through a major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512116