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In this paper we present a multi-country, multi-industry agent-based model investigating the different growth patterns of interdependent economies. Each country features a Schumpeterian engine of endogenous technical change which interacts with Keyneasian/Kaldorian demand generation mechanisms....
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This paper studies the linkage between international trade and income convergence across countries. Different theories offer conflicting predictions regarding how they might affect each other. In the existing empirical literature estimating the trade impact on income convergence, a long-lasting...
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In this paper we present a multi-country, multi-industry agent-based model investigating the different growth patterns of interdependent economies. Each country features a Schumpeterian engine of endogenous technical change which interacts with Keyneasian/Kaldorian demand generation mechanisms....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011763040
This essay reviews the relationship between natural-resource abundance and economic growth around the world, and presents some new results. The principal reasons why resource-based production can inhibit economic growth over long periods are traced to the Dutch disease, neglect of education,...
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This essay reviews the relationship between natural-resource abundance and economic growth around the world, and presents some new results. The principal reasons why resource-based production can inhibit economic growth over long periods are traced to the Dutch disease, neglect of education,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321136
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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, history of improvement in living standards. These views are not necessarily inconsistent and growth theory offers us the tools …
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By studying the interaction between social capital and decentralization, we show that political decentralization can be a source of divergence across heterogeneous regions. In particular, we claim that since the local endowments of social capital display their effect on the economy mainly...
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This essay develops a theory of the evolution of international income levels. In particular, it augments the Hansen …-Prescott theory of economic development with the Parente-Prescott theory of relative efficiencies and shows that the unified theory … accounts for the evolution of international income levels over the last millennium. The essence of this unified theory is that …
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This chapter develops a theory of the evolution of international income levels. In particular, it augments the Hansen …–Prescott theory of economic development with the Parente–Prescott theory of relative efficiencies and shows that the unified theory … accounts for the evolution of international income levels over the last millennium. The essence of this unified theory is that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023766