In this paper we analyze the dynamics of catching up for a backward three sector economy and investigate the transitional structural adjustment process. A theoretical model is developed to explain international development and trade patterns as a transitory process of technological catching up....

Die vorliegende Arbeit füllt mehrere Lücken der Literatur im Bereich Bevölkerungsentwicklung und ökonomischer/struktureller Wandel. Der Schwerpunkt liegt hierbei auf Entwicklungsländern. Ausgehend von der Notwendigkeit Geburtenraten korrekter zu bestimmen um Bevölkerungsprognosen...

A stylized fact of economic development is the structural transformation of countries from traditional, mainly agricultural societies to modern economies dominated by manufacturing and services. In this paper we provide an endogenous growth model to illuminate the role of entrepreneurial...

Building on a Lewis-type model of structural change and entrepreneurship we show how a global economic crisis consisting of a financial and a trade shock can undermine structural change in developing countries via the start-up and innovation activities of entrepreneurs. The model analytics...

We propose that the rate of creation and failure of start-up firms can be modelled as a search and matching process, following labor market matching models. Setting out an endogenous growth model with entrepreneurship we derive a Entrepreneurship Beveridge Curve, through which we illustrate that...

How can a small group of insurgents believe they can overcome the government by turning violent, even if the government is strongly superior? When does a conflict develop towards a peaceful conflict resolution, terrorism, a guerilla war, or a widely spread conventional civil war? We develop a...

Growth, inequality, and poverty are central elements of the development process. However the mutual effects and directions of causality have been, and remain, one of the most controversial issues. After introducing a simple theoretical framework we derive some fundamental relations between...