We develop and study a neoclassical growth model with a realistic demographic structure. Our model complements recent developments in the overlapping generations (OLG) literature by highlighting the natural link that exists between different classes of macrodynamic models. Within the model we...

This paper develops a new approach, termed as the stock approach, to calculate the steady-state output loss caused by public debt in neoclassical growth models. The novelty of our stock approach is that it provides a closed-form solution to the steady-state output-debt relationship. The main...

The publication of the book Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Piketty helped to increase the debate about the prospects of the evolution of income and wealth inequality in this century. One of the main controversies is about the effects to the income and wealth inequalities of a decrease in...

This paper investigates the crowding-out effect of public debt and the related loss in the long-run output in the framework of neoclassical growth models. To accomplish this task, we incorporate the government sector into three basic neoclassical models, which differ only in their assumptions...

This essay reviews the development of neoclassical growth theory, a unified theory of aggregate economic phenomena that was first used to study business cycles and aggregate labor supply. Subsequently, the theory has been used to understand asset pricing, growth miracles and disasters, monetary...

Many successful examples of economic development, such as South Korea, exhibit long periods of sustained capital accumulation. This process is characterized by a gradually rising investment rate along with a moderate rate of return to capital, both of which are strongly at odds with the standard...

The purpose of this paper is to determine whether a neoclassical model of macroeconomic growth with endogenous savings and labor augmenting technical change can account for Kaldor's stylized facts. An empirical investigation is undertaken to determine whether the results obtained correctly...

Structural change is a relatively simple (continuous) process having restricted limit-properties. All processes which can be classified as "structural change" inherit these limit-properties. Limit-properties of processes play an important role in neoclassical growth theory. We show that (i) many...

This paper surveys intergenerational altruism in neoclassical growth models. It first examines Barro's approach to intergenerational altruism, whereby successive generations are linked by recursive altruistic preferences. Individuals have an altruistic concern only for their children, who in...

This paper examines the interrelationship between capital accumulation, fertility, and growth by introducing an endogenous fertility decision into Diamond's (1965) neoclassical growth model. Under the assumptions that children provide old age support and that individuals incur a variable time...