scholarly journals Economic Growth with Social Status, Spirit of Capitalism, and Conspicuous Consumption

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Wei-Bin Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Growth Model ◽  
Open Economy ◽  
Wealth Distribution ◽  
Small Open Economy ◽  
Conspicuous Consumption ◽  
Wealth Accumulation ◽  
Spirit Of Capitalism ◽  
Income And Wealth Distribution

The purpose of this study is to introduce social status, conspicuous consumption, and spirit of capitalism into neoclassical growth model. This paper studies a dynamic interdependence between economic growth, economic structural change, income and wealth distribution, social status, conspicuous consumption, and spirit of capitalism in a small-open economy. We build a heterogeneous-households growth model with endogenous wealth accumulation and social status. The dynamics of J-households economy is described by J differential equations. We simulate the motion of the model with three groups of households. We carry out comparative dynamic analysis with regard to some parameters.

scholarly journals Business Cycles with Spirit of Capitalism and Conspicuous Consumption in a Multi-Country Growth Model

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
Wei-Bin Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Growth Model ◽  
Conspicuous Consumption ◽  
Wealth Accumulation ◽  
Trade Patterns ◽  
Economic Growth Model ◽  
Endogenous Variables ◽  
Spirit Of Capitalism ◽  
Global Economic Growth

This paper generalizes the global economic growth model with spirit of capitalism, social status, and conspicuous consumption recently proposed by Zhang (2016). Zhang’s model examines the role of spirit of capitalism, social status, and conspicuous consumption in national and international economic development, trade patterns, and distribution of income and wealth between countries. The multi-country growth model treats social status and wealth accumulation as endogenous variables. This paper generalizes the model by Zhang through making all exogenous constant parameters as exogenous time-dependent parameters. We demonstrate how the system reacts to exogenous periodic perturbations.

scholarly journals Spirit of Capitalism and Conspicuous Consumption with Social Status in a Neoclassical Growth Trade Model

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 70
Author(s):  
Wei-Bin Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Conspicuous Consumption ◽  
Physical Capital ◽  
Wealth Accumulation ◽  
Trade Patterns ◽  
Dynamic Interactions ◽  
Trade Model ◽  
Spirit Of Capitalism

<p class="ber">This study deals with dynamic interactions among social status, conspicuous consumption, spirit of capitalism, global growth, trade patterns, and inequalities in income and wealth between countries. The paper constructs a multi-country growth model with endogenous physical capital, wealth accumulation and social status. The modelling of social status is influenced by the ideas related to economic growth and social status in the literature of economic growth. This study analyzes the role of conspicuous consumption by assuming that social status is enhanced by more consumption and the role of the spirit of capitalism (of some goods) by assuming that social status is enhanced by more wealth. The global economic system consists of any number of countries and each country has one capital goods sector and one consumer goods sector. This study applies an alternative utility function proposed by Zhang to analyze household behavior. The countries differ in preferences, spirits of capitalisms, and productivities. We show that the dynamics of -country world economy is described by  differential equations. We simulate the motion of the model with three countries and carry out comparative dynamic analysis with regard to some parameters.</p>

scholarly journals A chaotic economic growth model and the agricultural share of an output

2005 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vesna Jablanovic
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Growth Model ◽  
Open Economy ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Small Open Economy ◽  
Total Output ◽  
Economic Growth Model ◽  
Stable Equilibria ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Parameter Values

The agricultural share of a total output generally declines in the process of economic growth. The major reason for this is that consumer demand for food increases only slightly with rising incomes. However, a small, open economy can overcome this constraint to the growth of agricultural production by expanding its net exports. The basic aim of this paper is to set up a chaotic growth model of the gross domestic product that is capable of generating stable equilibria, cycles, or chaos depending on parameter values.

Book Reviews

2010 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 1041-1043
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Labor Supply ◽  
Foreign Aid ◽  
Growth Model ◽  
Open Economy ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Growth Models ◽  
Small Open Economy ◽  
Basic Model ◽  
The University

Kent P. Kimbrough of Duke University reviews “Capital Accumulation and Economic Growth in a Small Open Economy” by Stephen J. Turnovsky,. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins “Investigates the process of economic growth in a small open economy and considers whether it is sensitive to the economy’s productive structure. Discusses a basic growth model with fixed labor supply; a basic growth model with endogenous labor supply; transitional dynamics and endogenous growth in one-sector models; two-sector growth models; nonscale growth models; a basic model of foreign aid; and foreign aid, capital accumulation, and economic growth--some extensions. Turnovsky is Castor Chair of Economics at the University of Washington. Index.”

scholarly journals A small open economic growth model with imported goods, tourism, and terms of trade

2018 ◽  
pp. 65-86
Author(s):  
Wei-Bin Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Dynamic Analysis ◽  
Growth Model ◽  
Open Economy ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Small Open Economy ◽  
Terms Of Trade ◽  
Nonlinear Dynamic Model ◽  
Economic Growth Model ◽  
Tourism Economy

This paper constructs an economic growth model of a small open economy with tourism and imported goods in a perfectly competitive economy. The study focuses on the effects of changes in terms of trade, with a preference for imported goods, on the dynamic paths of trade balance and economic growth. The basic framework for modelling a national economy is based on the Solow-Uzawa neoclassical growth model with Zhang’s alternative approach to household behaviour. We build a nonlinear dynamic model with interdependence between economic growth, economic structure, tourism, prices, wealth and income. We provide a computational process to follow the motion of the economic system. Simulation is used to carry out a comparative dynamic analysis of the terms of trade, the propensity to consume imported goods, the rate of interest, the price elasticity of tourism, and the total productivity of the service sector. The comparative dynamic analysis provides some insights into the complexity of the tourism economy.

Interest Rate–Economic Growth Nexus Under Currency Board Operations

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-24
Author(s):  
Martinianus Tshimologo Tibinyane ◽  
Teresia Kaulihowa
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Interest Rate ◽  
Impulse Response ◽  
Response Function ◽  
Open Economy ◽  
Small Open Economy ◽  
Impulse Response Function ◽  
Policy Instrument ◽  
Variance Decomposition ◽  
Currency Board

This paper analyses the effect of the prime interest rate as a monetary policy instrument to stimulate economic growth in Namibia, a small open economy that is constrained by currency board operations. A Vector Autoregressive Model (VAR) was used for the period 1980–2019. The result shows that Namibia’s prime interest rate has no significant effect on economic growth. This finding remains robust and consistent when impulse response function and variance decomposition are employed. The impulse response function indicates a shock on the prime interest rate exhibits an inverse relationship. However, this effect is insignificant in both short and long-run scenarios. The variance decomposition indicates that the prime interest rate has a strongly exogenous impact, implying it has a weak influence on GDP growth. Policy implication indicates that small open economies under currency board operations need to identify different policy responses to circumvent external shocks and addresses their development needs.

scholarly journals Does Meaningful Relationship Exist Between Trade Liberalization and Economic Growth? A Case Study of a Small Open Economy

2021 ◽  
pp. 63-79
Author(s):  
Adedapo Odebode ◽  
Olajide Sunday Oladipo
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Trade Liberalization ◽  
Open Economy ◽  
Trade Openness ◽  
Small Open Economy ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Appropriate Technology ◽  
Vector Error Correction ◽  
Meaningful Relationship ◽  
Alternative Measures

Using quarterly data between 1981q1 and 2018q4, the paper investigates the relationship between trade liberalization and economic growth in Nigeria. Exploring Johnasen cointegration technique and the Vector Error Correction (VEC) method, the paper considers three alternative measures of trade liberalization to determine whether the response of economic growth to trade liberalization is sensitive to the choice of the indicators of trade liberalization under consideration. The paper finds significant effects of trade liberalization on the economy. The paper recommends that government should implement policies that will promote trade openness in Nigeria. This may be achieved by establishing bilateral and multi-lateral agreements that are favourable and that will support appropriate technology transfer to domestic producers. JEL classification numbers: F31, F13, F41. Keywords: Trade liberalization, Tariffs, Economic growth, Nigeria.

scholarly journals Education, Income, Wealth Inequality and Business Cycles in a General Equilibrium Growth Model

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Business Cycles ◽  
General Equilibrium ◽  
Growth Model ◽  
Open Economy ◽  
Wealth Inequality ◽  
Learning By Doing ◽  
Government Subsidy ◽  
Wealth Inequalities

The paper is concerned with the dynamic interactions between physical capital, human capital, income and wealth inequalities between different households with government subsidy to education. It generalizes the endogenous growth model of a small-open economy proposed by Zhang (2016). Zhang’s paper deals with income and wealth inequalities between heterogeneous households with government subsidy to education. The paper makes a contribution to the literature of economic growth with endogenous education by integrating Solow-Uzawa’s neoclassical growth theory, Uzawa-Lucas model, Arrow’s learning by doing, Zhang’s creative leisure, and Walrasian general equilibrium theory. The model treats endogenous capital and human capital accumulation as the main engines of economic growth. This study generalizes Zhang’s model by allowing constant coefficients to be time-dependent. We simulate the generalized model to demonstrate existence of business cycles due to various exogenous periodic shocks.

Recent Economic Trends in Sri Lanka

1983 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 262-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Hooley
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Open Economy ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
Small Open Economy ◽  
Economic Structure ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
The Past ◽  
Economic Trends ◽  
Southeast Asian Countries

While Sri Lanka is geographically closer to India, there are greater similarities in economic structure with many Southeast Asian countries. Sri Lanka is a small open economy. Foreign trade has always played a pivotal role in the functioning of the economy. Politically the country has exhibited a preference for democratic parliamentary forms of government, which are compatible with an underlying cultural individualism. There are important differences, however, in both the tempo and direction of economic growth over the past two decades, and these differences, along with the underlying policy strategies that produced them, are potentially instructive in any consideration of economic performance in the region.

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