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We develop a unified theory of endogenous business cycles in which expansions are neoclassical growth periods driven by productivity improvements and capital accumulation, while downturns are the result of Keynesian contractions in aggregate demand below potential output. Recessions allow...
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There is increasing empirical evidence that creative destruction, driven by experimentation and the adoption of new products and processes when investment is sunk, is a core mechanism of development. Obstacles to this process are likely to be obstacles to the progress in standards of living....
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Evolutionary and environmental economics have a potentially close relationship. This paper reviews past and identifies potential applications of evolutionary concepts and methods to environmental economics. This covers a number of themes: resource use and ecosystem management; growth and...
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of innovation and technological change. It is argued that, on the one hand, several genuine properties of innovation … dealing with issues of innovation and technological change is given and the contribution of these studies is discussed …
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the slump following the Great Recession. Endogenous innovation dynamics amplifies financial crises and helps explain the …
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modelling the innovation and technology adoption process we are able to match some stylized economic facts such as entry rates …
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firms' equilibrium market revenues, we derive numerical solutions of the Markov perfect equilibrium innovation rate of the … important role in evaluating the impact of rising income inequality on R&D; furthermore, the way aggregate innovation responds … income inequality has a negative effect on innovation when the market quality gap is large, in which case, price competition …
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This paper presents an extended model of cumulative growth in which the effects of innovation and catching-up are … considered. The effect of innovation adds another source of cumulative growth to that of the traditional models and allows for …-Kaldor mechanism, and the induced effect of innovation on export performance, are important cumulative forces that interact with the …
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Many writers have claimed that R&D has two 'faces'. In addition to the conventional role of stimulating innovation, R … important in this catch up process as well as stimulating innovation directly. Trade, by contrast, plays a more modest role in …
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accumulation. Human capital is an important source of sustained growth. By focusing explicity on innovation as an economic activity …
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