Intergenerational Complementarities in Education and the Relationship between Growth and Volatility

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Intergenerational Complementarities in Education and the Relationship between Growth and Volatility

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Theodore Palivos () (Department of Economics, University of Macedonia)
Dimitrios Varvarigos () (Department of Economics, University of Leicester)

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Theodore Palivos

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We construct an overlapping generations model in which parents vote on the tax rate that determines publicly provided education and offspring choose their effort in learning activities. The technology governing the accumulation of human capital allows these decisions to be strategic complements. In the presence of coordination failure, indeterminacy and, possibly, growth cycles emerge. In the absence of coordination failure, the economy moves along a uniquely determined balanced growth path. We argue that such structural differences can account for the negative correlation between volatility and growth.

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- Theodore Palivos & Dimitrios Varvarigos, 2009. "Intergenerational Complementarities in Education and the Relationship between Growth and Volatility," Discussion Papers in Economics 09/8, Department of Economics, University of Leicester. [Downloadable!]

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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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NEP-ALL-2009-03-22 (All new papers)
NEP-DGE-2009-03-22 (Dynamic General Equilibrium)
NEP-EDU-2009-03-22 (Education)
NEP-FDG-2009-03-22 (Financial Development & Growth)
NEP-HRM-2009-03-22 (Human Capital & Human Resource Management)

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Theodore Palivos & Dimitrios Varvarigos, 2009. "Education and Growth: A Simple Model with Complicated Dynamics," Discussion Paper Series 2009_08, Department of Economics, University of Macedonia, revised Apr 2009. [Downloadable!]

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