Using an expanding-variety endogenous growth model with purposive human capital accumulation, this paper provides an alternative explanation of why we may observe an ambiguous correlation between product market competition (PMC) and economic growth, and between population and economic growth...

This paper examines the impact of education on economic growth in Greece over the period 1981 - 2009 by applying the model with two sectors introduced by Lucas (1988). The findings of the empirical analysis reveal that there is no long-run relation between educational stock and output. In the...

This paper examines the impact of education on economic growth in Greece over the period 1981 – 2009 by applying the model with two sectors introduced by Lucas (1988). The findings of the empirical analysis reveal that there is no long-run relation between educational stock and output. In the...

This paper examines the impact of education on economic growth in Greece over the period 1981 – 2009 by applying the model with two sectors introduced by Lucas (1988). The findings of the empirical analysis reveal that there is no long-run relation between educational stock and output. In the...

This paper provides a unified theory of the economic and demographic transition. Individuals make optimal decisions about fertility, education of their children and the type and intensity of the investments in their own education. These decisions are affected by different dimensions of mortality...

This paper presents a microfounded theory of long-term development. We model the interplay between economic variables, namely the process of human capital formation and technological progress, and the biological constraint of finite lifetime expectancy. All these processes affect each other and...

In this paper we claim that capital is as important in the production of ideas as in the production of final goods. Hence, we introduce capital in the production of knowledge and discuss the associated problems arising from the public good nature of knowledge. We show that although population...

This paper analyzes how population and product market competition (PMC) interact with each other in affecting productivity growth. We find that only a fully endogenous growth model with purposeful investment in human capital, an input in the production of intermediate goods, can simultaneously...

This paper devises an endogenous growth model with physical capital, human capital and product variety. Differently to previous works, innovation is subject to externalities associated to the duplication of research effort, as well as to R&D spillovers. We provide conditions for the existence of...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the relationship between competition and growth in a model of human capital accumulation and research by disentangling the monopolistic mark-up in the intermediate goods sector and the returns to specialization in order to have a better measure of competition....