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Population growth and natural resource scar-city : long-run development under seemingly unfavourable conditions
Bretschger, Lucas - 2009
The paper develops a model with non-exponential population growth, nonrenewable natural resources, and endogenous knowledge creation to analyse substitution between primary inputs and an essential use of resources in the innovation sectors, which is generally considered as most unfavourable for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011793475
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Population Growth and Natural Resource Scarcity : Long-Run Development Under Seemingly Unfavourable Conditions
Bretschger, Lucas - 2015
The paper develops a model with non-exponential population growth, nonrenewable natural resources, and endogenous knowledge creation to analyse economic development in the medium and long run. We further assume poor substitution between primary inputs and an essential use of resources in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014217028
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The sustainability paradigm : a macroeconomic perspective
Bretschger, Lucas - 1997
This paper presents a macroeconomic approach to sustainable growth. After clarifying the concept of sustainability, the interdependence between natural resources and accumulated capital stocks such as physical, human, and knowledge capital is discussed. The conditions for the substitution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009623407
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Population Growth and Natural Resource Scarcity: Long run development under seemingly unfavourable conditions
Bretschger, Lucas - Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource-Rich … - 2010
The paper considers an economy which is constrained by natural resource use and driven by knowledge accumulation. Resources are essential inputs in all the sectors. It is shown that population growth and poor input substitution are not detrimental but, on the contrary, even necessary for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008670377
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Population growth and natural resource scarcity: long-run development under seemingly unfavourable conditions
Bretschger, Lucas - 2009
The paper develops a model with non-exponential population growth, nonrenewable natural resources, and endogenous knowledge creation to analyse substitution between primary inputs and an essential use of resources in the innovation sectors, which is generally considered as most unfavourable for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011753151
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Population growth and natural resource scarcity: long-run development under seemingly unfavourable conditions
Bretschger, Lucas - CER-ETH Center of Economic Research, Department of … - 2008
The paper develops a model with non-exponential population growth, nonrenewable natural resources, and endogenous knowledge creation to analyse substitution between primary inputs and an essential use of resources in the innovation sectors, which is generally considered as most unfavourable for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005750302
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International trade and net investment : theory and evidence
Bretschger, Lucas; Valente, Simone - 2011
The theory of welfare accounting shows that comprehensive measures of net investment can be used to test whether an … economy is following unsustainable paths of consumption. However, the notion of net investment used in most applied studies … expression of net investment derived from a dynamic growth model featuring international trade in different types of resource …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009236274
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The sustainability paradigm: A macroeconomic perspective
Bretschger, Lucas - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Konstanz - 1997
This paper presents a macroeconomic approach to sustainable growth. After clarifying the concept of sustainability, the interdependence between natural resources and accumulated capital stocks such as physical, human, and knowledge capital is discussed. The conditions for the substitution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010958486
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The sustainability paradigm: A macroeconomic perspective
Bretschger, Lucas - 1997
The paper presents a macroeconomic approach to sustainable growth. After clarifying the concept of sustainability, the interdependence between natural resources and accumulated capital stocks such as physical, human, and knowledge capital is discussed. The conditions for the substitution process...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608281
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The sustainability paradigm: A macroeconomic perspective
Bretschger, Lucas - 1997
This paper presents a macroeconomic approach to sustainable growth. After clarifying the concept of sustainability, the interdependence between natural resources and accumulated capital stocks such as physical, human, and knowledge capital is discussed. The conditions for the substitution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397944