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equilibria. They also imply that factor distribution of income has an important impact on growth. Finally, the paper derives new …
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We document substantial within-country (cross-municipality) differences in incomes for a large number of countries in the Americas. A significant fraction of the within-country differences cannot be explained by observed human capital. We conjecture that the sources of within-country and...
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's approach and suggests an even more important role for human capital in economic growth than indicated by their analysis. (JEL I …
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This paper constructs a model of non-balanced economic growth. The main economic force is the combination of … models, non-balanced growth is shown to be consistent with an asymptotic equilibrium with constant interest rate and capital … consistent with US data. In particular, the model generates more rapid growth of employment in less capital-intensive sectors …
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This paper constructs a model of non-balanced economic growth. The main economic force is the combination of … models, non-balanced growth is shown to be consistent with an asymptotic equilibrium with constant interest rate and capital … consistent with US data. In particular, the model generates more rapid growth of employment in less capital-intensive sectors …
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This paper constructs a model of non-balanced economic growth. The main economic force is the combination of …, non-balanced growth is shown to be consistent with an asymptotic equilibrium with constant interest rate and capital share … in national income. Finally, we construct and analyze a model of “nonbalanced endogenous growth,†which extends these …
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We construct a simple model where political elites may block technological and institutional development, because of a ‘political replacement effect.’ Innovations often erode elites’ incumbency advantage, increasing the likelihood that they will be replaced. Fearing replacement, political...
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. Economic institutions encouraging economic growth emerge when political institutions allocate power to groups with interests in …
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This paper revisits the important ideas proposed by Atkinson and Stiglitz's seminal 1969 paper on technological change. After linking these ideas to the induced innovation literature of the 1960s and the more recent directed technological change literature, it explains how these three...
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