In this endogenous growth model, a minimum efficient scale of production and workers' home-to-work travel costs combine to give firms monopsony power, and this monopsony power leads to slower growth. Monopsony drives the wage below the marginal product of labor. This lower wage leads to lower...

The paper introduces decentralized policymaking into a game-theoretic model with output growth through capital accumulation, and in which the determination of taxes, seigniorage and the long-run growth rate of the economy reflects the strategic interactions between the government, the central...