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Technology Adoption, Capital Maintenance And The Technological Gap

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  • Raouf Boucekkine

    () (IRES)

  • Blanca Martínez

    (Universidad de Alicante)

  • CARGI SAGLAM

    (IRES)

Abstract

We study optimal growth models à la Nelson and Phelps (1966) where labor resources can be allocated either to production, technology adoption or capital maintenance. We first characterize the balanced growth paths of a benchmark model without maintenance. Then we introduce the maintenance activity via the depreciation rate of capital. We characterize the optimal allocation of labor across the three activities. Though maintenance deepens the technological gap by diverting labor resources from adoption, we show that it generally increases the long run output level. Moreover we find that equilibrium maintenance and adoption efforts respond in opposite directions to policy or technology shocks. When a technological shock occurs, the reduction of the equilibrium technological gap is incompatible with welfare maximization. Finally, we find that the long term output response to policy shocks is slightly higher in the presence of maintenance.

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Paper provided by Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie) in its series Working Papers. Serie AD with number 2003-18.

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Length: 29 pages
Date of creation: May 2003
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Handle: RePEc:ivi:wpasad:2003-18

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Keywords: Adoption; Maintenance; Technological gap; Output gap;

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  1. Raouf, BOUCEKKINE & Blanca, MARTINEZ & Cagri, SAGLAM, 2003. "The Development problem under embodiment," Discussion Papers (IRES - Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales) 2003006, Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES).
  2. Raouf, BOUCEKKINE & Blanca, MARTINEZ & Cagri, SAGLAM, 2006. "Capital Maintenance Vs Technology Adopton under Embodied Technical Progress," Discussion Papers (ECON - Département des Sciences Economiques) 2006030, Université catholique de Louvain, Département des Sciences Economiques.
  3. Blanca MARTINEZ, 2002. "Technological convergence and the connections between adoption, maintenance and investment activities," Discussion Papers (IRES - Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales) 2002025, Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES).

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