ON THE DYNAMIC EFFICIENCY OF BALANCED GROWTH PATHS IN AN ENDOGENOUS GROWTH SETTING

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (8) ◽  
pp. 1837-1856 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Del Rey ◽  
Miguel-Angel Lopez-Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Endogenous Growth ◽  
Overlapping Generations ◽  
Physical Capital ◽  
Marginal Product ◽  
Dynamic Efficiency ◽  
Growth Path ◽  
Balanced Growth ◽  
Balanced Growth Path ◽  
Laissez Faire

In overlapping-generations economies with life-cycle saving and exogenous growth, the laissez-faire equilibrium balanced growth path fails in general to achieve optimality, but is dynamically efficient if the marginal product of physical capital is greater than the growth rate of the economy. In this paper, we accommodate the concept of dynamic (in)efficiency in an overlapping-generations economy with endogenous growth due to human capital accumulation. We show that the condition that the marginal product of physical capital is larger than the growth rate of the economy is necessary but no longer sufficient for the dynamic efficiency of the laissez-faire equilibrium balanced growth path.

Distribution and Endogenous Growth: The Two-Class Pasinetti Model / Verteilung und endogenes Wachstum: Das Zwei-Klassen Modell von Pasinetti

2001 ◽  
Vol 221 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfred Greiner
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Income Distribution ◽  
Saddle Point ◽  
Endogenous Growth ◽  
Growth Path ◽  
Balanced Growth ◽  
Positive Externalities ◽  
Balanced Growth Path ◽  
Per Capita

SummaryThe paper extends the two-class Pasinetti model with workers and capitalists to allow for endogenous growth. Sustained per-capita growth results from positive externalities of investment which for its part only occur if workers devote time to education so that an efficient use of new machines is guaranteed. It is shown that there exists a unique balanced growth path which is a saddle point. The effects of raising education on the growth rate as well as on the income distribution between workers and capitalists are studied as well. It is demonstrated that education affects the balanced growth rate and, thus, the income of workers. However, it does not affect the ratio of workers’ income relative to the income of capitalists.

INCOME INEQUALITY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH WITH ALTRUISTIC BEQUESTS AND HUMAN CAPITAL INVESTMENT

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (S3) ◽  
pp. 331-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart McDonald ◽  
Jie Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Income Inequality ◽  
Capital Investment ◽  
Physical Capital ◽  
Output Growth ◽  
Growth Path ◽  
Average Output ◽  
Balanced Growth ◽  
Factor Markets ◽  
Balanced Growth Path

In this paper we explore how income inequality affects growth in a dynastic family model with bequests (physical capital) and investment in human capital for children. For tractability, we abstract from factor markets and focus on household production, which is prevalent in developing countries. We explore a joint distribution of bequests and human capital and track the evolution of income distribution across generations. We show that initial inequality has a positive indirect effect on average output growth by lowering the ratio of physical to human capital, besides its standard negative direct effect. If education is mainly privately (publicly) provided, then income inequality retards (promotes) growth outside the balanced growth path. On the balanced growth path, inequality always hinders growth.

scholarly journals CAN EDUCATION BE GOOD FOR BOTH GROWTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT?

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 1135-1157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabien Prieur ◽  
Thierry Bréchet
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Steady State ◽  
Overlapping Generations ◽  
Environmental Awareness ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Growth Path ◽  
Overlapping Generations Model ◽  
Balanced Growth ◽  
Knowledge Growth ◽  
Balanced Growth Path

We develop an overlapping-generations model of growth and the environment in relation to public policy on education. Beyond the traditional mechanisms through which knowledge, growth, and the environment interplay, we stress the role played by education in environmental awareness. Assuming first that environmental awareness is constant, we show the existence of a balanced-growth path (BGP) along which environmental quality increases continually. Then, if education enhances environmental awareness, the equilibrium properties are modified: the economy can reach a steady state or converge to an asymptotic BGP. Therefore, education does not necessarily promote sustained and sustainable growth.

The model of endogenous economic growth with a balance

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 29-34
Author(s):  
Полев ◽  
V. Polev ◽  
Стародубцев ◽  
Viktor Starodubtsev ◽  
Свистов ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Endogenous Growth ◽  
The State ◽  
Discount Factor ◽  
Growth Path ◽  
Stationary Equilibrium ◽  
Balanced Growth ◽  
Endogenous Economic Growth ◽  
Balanced Growth Path

In this paper, we propose a model of endogenous growth, based on the assumption that the discount factor is formed endogenously. Analysis of the model is limited to the study of the state of stationary equilibrium, which correspond to the balanced growth path, and it is shown that the set of stationary equilibria is a continuum, and each individual is uncertain balance

GROWTH AND FIRM DYNAMICS WITH HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL R&D

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (7) ◽  
pp. 1438-1466 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Mazeda Gil ◽  
Paulo Brito ◽  
Oscar Afonso
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Growth Rate ◽  
Firm Dynamics ◽  
Growth Path ◽  
Economic Growth Rate ◽  
Balanced Growth ◽  
Composition Effects ◽  
Endogenous Growth Model ◽  
Balanced Growth Path ◽  
Empirical Growth

A negative or nonsignificant empirical correlation between aggregate R&D intensity and the economic growth rate is a well-known fact in the empirical growth literature, but scarcely addressed in the theoretical growth literature. This paper develops an endogenous-growth~model that explores the interrelation~between horizontal and vertical R&D under a lab-equipment specification that is consistent with that stylized fact. A key feature is that the growth rate is fully endogenous both on the intensive and on the extensive margin. Strong composition effects between horizontal and vertical R&D, along both transition and the balanced-growth path, then emerge as the main mechanism producing those results. This setting also allows us to obtain a relationship between economic growth and firm dynamics that is consistent with the empirical facts.

scholarly journals Endogenous Education and Long-Run Factor Shares

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-232
Author(s):  
Gene M. Grossman ◽  
Elhanan Helpman ◽  
Ezra Oberfield ◽  
Thomas Sampson
Keyword(s):  
Technological Progress ◽  
Overlapping Generations ◽  
National Income ◽  
Elasticity Of Substitution ◽  
Growth Path ◽  
Balanced Growth ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Balanced Growth Path ◽  
Factor Shares ◽  
Neoclassical Growth

We study the determinants of factor shares in a neoclassical environment with capital-skill complementarity and endogenous education. In this environment estimates of the elasticity of substitution between capital and labor that fail to account for human capital levels will be biased upward. We develop a model with overlapping generations, technology-driven neoclassical growth, and ongoing increases in educational attainment. For a class of production functions featuring capital-skill complementarity, a balanced growth path exists and is characterized by an inverse relationship between the rates of capital-and labor-augmenting technological progress and the capital share in national income. (JEL D33, E25, J24, O33)

scholarly journals Production Lags And Growth Dynamics In An Overlapping Generations Endogenous Growth Model

2011 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rangan Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Steady State ◽  
Endogenous Growth ◽  
Overlapping Generations ◽  
Growth Process ◽  
Growth Dynamics ◽  
Marginal Product ◽  
Initial Value ◽  
Overlapping Generations Model ◽  
Endogenous Growth Model

<span>This paper analyzes growth dynamics in an endogenous growth overlapping generations model characterized by production lags in the firm-specific and average economy-wide capital inputs, with the growth process being endogenized by allowing for a production externality. We show that endogenous convergent fluctuations emerge, with the convergence being faster for higher values of the marginal product of labor, given the initial value of the gross growth rate - a result, otherwise impossible, if the production is a function of contemporaneous capital stock. Finally, when production is a function of lagged labor, as well as lagged capital inputs, steady-state is infeasible.</span>

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