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American Economic Review: Vol. 90 No. 4 (September 2000)
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Endogenous Growth and Cross-Country Income Differences
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Howitt, Peter. 2000. "Endogenous Growth and Cross-Country Income Differences."
American Economic Review,
90(4): 829-846.
DOI: 10.1257/aer.90.4.829
DOI: 10.1257/aer.90.4.829
Abstract
A multicountry Schumpeterian growth model is constructed. Because of technology transfer, R&D-performing countries converge to parallel growth paths; other countries stagnate. A parameter change that would have raised a country's growth rate in standard Schumpetarian theory will permanently raise its productivity and per capita income relative to other countries and raise the world growth rate. Transitional dynamics are analyzed for each country and for the world economy. Steady-state income differences obey the same equation as in neoclassical theory, but since R&D is positively correlated with investment rates, capital accumulation accounts for less than estimated by neoclassical theory.
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Howitt, Peter (OH State U)
JEL Classifications
O41: One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models
O33: Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
B52: Current Heterodox Approaches: Institutional; Evolutionary
O33: Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
B52: Current Heterodox Approaches: Institutional; Evolutionary
