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Eventually, noise and imitation implies balanced growth

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  • Erzo G. J. Luttmer

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This paper adds imitation by incumbent firms, and not just by new entrants, to the model of selection and growth developed in Luttmer [2007]. Noisy firm-level innovation and imitation give rise to a long-run growth rate that exceeds the average rate at which individual firms innovate. It can be shown, in simple examples, that the economy converges to a long-run balanced growth path from compactly supported initial productivity distributions. The right tail of the stationary distribution of de-trended productivity is approximately Pareto. The tail index of this distribution depends on the rate at which incumbents are able to imitate only indirectly, through general equilibrium effects of this parameter on the equilibrium growth rate.

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  • Erzo G. J. Luttmer, 2012. "Eventually, noise and imitation implies balanced growth," Working Papers 699, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
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    1. Polterovich, Victor, 2017. "Теория Эндогенного Экономического Роста И Уравнения Математической Физики
      [The theory of endogenous economic growth and equations of mathematical physics]      ," MPRA Paper 78622, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. Sampson, Thomas, 2016. "Dynamic selection: an idea flows theory of entry, trade and growth," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 62623, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.

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