The effects of energy prices and energy conservation on economic growth have been examined empirically for the postwar U.S. economy. A vector autoregressive model includes real GDP, real capital, labor, real energy prices, and the Divisia energy index. A key feature of our finding is that some...

This paper analyzes the implications of three types of technical progress on outputs in a variable returns-to-scale framework. It is shown that Hicks-ne utral technical improvement is ultra-biased in production regardless of the direction and severity of the returns to scale. The output eff ect...

This paper analyzes the welfare implications of factor growth (i.e., labor growth and capital accumulation), in the mobile-capital Harris-Todaro (H-T) model by allowing the presence of variable returns to scale (VRS). It is shown that in contrast to the constant returns to scale (CRS) case,...