Growth and International Trade : An Introduction to the Overlapping Generations Approach

Growth and International Trade: Introduction and Stylized Facts -- PART I. GROWTH -- Modeling the Growth of the World Economy: The Basic Overlapping Generations Model -- Steady State, Factor Income, and Technological Progress -- Economic Growth and Public Debt in the World Economy -- “New“ Growth Theory and Knowledge Externalities in Capital Accumulation -- Endogenous Technological Progress and Infinite Economic Growth -- Human Capital, Religion, and Economic Growth -- Economic Growth With Bubbles -- Involuntary Unemployment in an OLG Growth Model with Public Debt and Human Capital -- Robots, Human Capital Investment, Welfare, and Unemployment in a Digital World Economy -- PART II. INTERNATIONAL TRADE. International Parity Conditions in a Two-Country OLG Model Under Free Trade -- Factor Proportion, Inter-Sectoral Trade, and Product Life Cycle -- Product Differentiation, Decreasing Costs, and Intra-sectoral Trade -- Globalization, Capital Accumulation, and Terms of Trade -- Innovation, Growth and Trade in a Two-Country OLG Model -- Real Exchange Rate and Public Debt in a Two-Advanced-Country OLG Model -- Public Debt Reduction in Advanced Countries and Its Impacts on Emerging Countries -- External Balance, Dynamic Efficiency and Welfare Effects of National Climate Policies -- Nationally and Internationally Optimal Climate Policies -- Modeling the Debt Mechanics of the Euro Zone -- Financial Integration and House Price Dynamics in an OLG Model with Intra-EMU and Asian-US Trade Imbalances -- Why Religion Might Persist in a Globalized Market Economy.