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We analyze the interplay between longevity, pollution and growth. We develop an OLG model where longevity, pollution … and growth are endogenous. The authorities may provide two types of public services, public health and environmental … maintenance, that participate to increase agents' life expectancy and to sustain growth in the long term. We show that global …
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growing economy, that is when population growth is optimal in the long-run, this egalitarian rule can only hold when (i) the …
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Recently, many contributions have focused on the relationship between capital accumulation, growth and population … environmental concerns. One can therefore explain a simultaneous increase of capital intensity, population growth and pollution … capital intensity, population growth and pollution. …
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economic growth. …
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innovative firms facing random investment opportunities in research and development (R&D) and determine the growth of their … and firms savings determines a leveraged growth of innovations which increasing when legal reforms reduce the imperfection …
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The estimation of the relationship between education and economic growth is marked by contradictions. These …, makes it possible to confirm or not the positive relationship between education and growth. Taking into account the … endogeneity of education, we measure a positive effect of qualitative indicators of human capital and the growth of countries …
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This article explores the role of trend shocks in explaining the specificities of business cycles in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries using the methodology introduced by Aguiar and Gopinath (2007) [Emerging Market Business Cycles: The Cycle Is the Trend Journal of Political Economy 115(1)]....
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. In this paper, we build an overlapping generations (OLG) model with heterogenous agents and endogenous growth driven by …. Calibrating the model to French data, we highlight a tradeoff between growth and redistribution. With a perfect credit market … slower growth. In an economy with an imperfect credit market where individuals cannot borrow to educate, the tradeoff between …
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This paper studies the effect of changes in the employment rate on labour productivity per hour, taking an empirical approach. By splitting the workforce into three qualification categories, this study allows us to distinguish the effects of changes in the employment rate structure from those of...
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The principle of conditional convergence, in growth theory, fails to explain growth paths that are durably divergent … growth, and similar access to technologies and resources...). Our research models the reasons of these divergencesby making … the optimizing behavior of the firms, we show the existence of two balanced and durable growth regimes. The "fast growth …
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