Endogenous Growth and Cross-Country Income Differences
American Economic Review
vol. 90,
no. 4, September 2000
(pp. 829-846)
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.Citation
Howitt, Peter. 2000. "Endogenous Growth and Cross-Country Income Differences." American Economic Review, 90 (4): 829-846. DOI: 10.1257/aer.90.4.829JEL Classification
- O41 One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models
- O33 Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
- B52 Current Heterodox Approaches: Institutional; Evolutionary