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A Contribution to the Empirics of Endogenous Growth

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Elias Dinopoulos (University of Florida)
Peter Thompson (University of Houston)

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We modify Romer's [1990] model of endogenous technological change, incorporating population growth, capital depreciation and diminishing returns to R&D, and removing scale effects. The steady-state of the model is characterized by a system of non-linear simultaneous equations in which income per capita depends on the savings rates, the rate of technological change and population growth in much the same manner as the Solow model, but in which the rate of technological change is also determined by the endogenous variables. Using international cross-sectional data, we obtain a precise estimate of returns to scale in the knowledge creation function which enables us to reject the neoclassical model against our alternative.

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Volume (Year): 22 (1996)
Issue (Month): 4 (Fall)
Pages: 389-400
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Keywords: Growth; Population; Technological Change;

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O41 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models

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  1. Matsuyama, Kiminori, 1992. "Agricultural productivity, comparative advantage, and economic growth," Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier, vol. 58(2), pages 317-334, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  2. Mankiw, N Gregory & Romer, David & Weil, David N, 1992. "A Contribution to the Empirics of Economic Growth," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, MIT Press, vol. 107(2), pages 407-37, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  3. Lucas, Robert Jr., 1988. "On the mechanics of economic development," Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, vol. 22(1), pages 3-42, July. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  1. Paul A. de Hek, 2005. "Uncertain Technological Change under Capital Mobility," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 05-033/2, Tinbergen Institute. [Downloadable!]
  2. Paul A. de Hek, 2002. "Endogenous Technological Change under Uncertainty," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 02-047/2, Tinbergen Institute, revised 08 Nov 2002. [Downloadable!]
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  3. Elias Dinopoulos & Paul Segerstrom, 1999. "A Schumpeterian Model of Protection and Relative Wages," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 89(3), pages 450-472, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  4. Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich, 2008. "Domestic resources, governance, global links, and the economic performance of Sub-Saharan Africa," MPRA Paper 11193, University Library of Munich, Germany. [Downloadable!]
  5. Petsas, Iordanis, 2009. "General Purpose Technologies and their Implications for International Trade," MPRA Paper 14446, University Library of Munich, Germany. [Downloadable!]
  6. Wolf-Heimo Grieben, 2005. "Schumpeterian growth and the political economy of employment protection," Journal of Economics, Springer, vol. 10(1), pages 77-118, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  7. Nahuis, R., 1998. "The dynamics of a general purpose technology in a research and assimilation model," Discussion Paper 119, Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research. [Downloadable!]
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