In this chapter we argue that the endogenous growth model with quality-improving innovations provides a framework for analyzing the determinants of long-run growth and convergence that is versatile, simple and empirically useful. Versatile, as the same framework can be used to analyze how growth...

This paper explores the role of increasing returns as a source of regional urban concentration and economic divergence with a special emphasis on the case of Argentina's provinces. The renewed focus of economic thought on increasing returns covers a wide variety of economic issues: learning and...