In this paper we present a dynamic model of cooperative production with human capital accumulation. We assume CES preferences on consumption and leisure in each period. When agents do not care about future generations, sustained growth occurs if the elasticity of substitution between consumption...

The speed at which an economy converges to its steady state is investigated by using a general non-scale R&D-based growth model. To accomplish this task, an analytical decomposition formula for the instantaneous rate of convergence is developed. By applying this decomposition to the model under...

Productive consumption enables the satisfaction of current needs and simultaneously increases the productive potential of labour. From the perspective of growth theory, the productive-consumption hypothesis is of fundamental interest because it modifies the harsh intertemporal consumption...

We analyze the interaction between human capital and growth in Russia, where there are substantial human capital reserves but an education system seriously out of sync with the world economy. We define a rule for the timing of educational restructuring, and show that this time is pareto optimal...

We are interested in three related questions: (1) How should accounting prices be estimated? (2) How should we evaluate policy change in an imperfect economy? (3) How can we check whether intergenerational well-being will be sustained along a projected economic programme? We do not presume that...

We introduce a Ramsey growth model with incomplete markets, decentralized production, and idiosyncratic technological risk. The combination of uninsurable shocks with the precautionary motive can slow down capital accumulation or give rise to persistent fluctuations even when agents are very...

Productive consumption enables the satisfaction of current needs and, at the same time, increases the productive potential of labour. Theoretical as well as empirical evidence suggests that productive consumption is primarily relevant to low-income countries. From the perspective of growth...

The Uzawa-Lucas model is believed to yield a positive dependence of the output growth on the ratio of human capital to physical capital (an empirically plausible imbalance effect). We show that the imbalance effect become less plausible for a low physical capital share and a low elasticity of...

The Uzawa-Lucas model is believed to yield a positive dependence of the output growth on the ratio of human capital to physical capital (an empirically plausible imbalance effect). We show that the imbalance effect become less plausible for a low physical capital share and a low elasticity of...