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Generalized Cumulative Offer Processes

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  • Zaifu Yang
  • Rong Zhang

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In this paper we provide a quantitative analysis of how wealth may affect economic growth. In the economy, the utility of every individual depends on both consumption and wealth. Exploring a class of specific utility functions in which wealth has a weakening effect on the marginal utility of consumption, we find a closed-form solution of steady-state consumption, capital stock, savings rate, and convergence rate and obtain several novel results of wealth effects on economic growth. We also demonstrate that the new models can be calibrated to fit well with empirical observation.

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  • Zaifu Yang & Rong Zhang, 2021. "Generalized Cumulative Offer Processes," Discussion Papers 21/08, Department of Economics, University of York.
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    Keywords

    Economic growth; wealth effects; savings rate; convergence rate.;
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    • C61 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Optimization Techniques; Programming Models; Dynamic Analysis
    • O40 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - General
    • O41 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models

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