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

Preface -- 1 Growth and International Trade: Introduction and Stylized Facts -- Part I: Growth -- 2 Modeling the Growth of the World Economy: The Basic Overlapping Generations Model -- 3 Steady State, Factor Income, and Technological Progress -- 4 Economic Growth and Public Debt in the World Economy -- 5 "New" Growth Theory and Knowledge Externalities in Capital Accumulation -- 6 Endogenous Technological Progress and Infinite Economic Growth -- 7 Human Capital, Religion, and Economic Growth -- 8 Economic Growth With Bubbles -- Part II: International Trade -- 9 International Parity Conditions in a Two-Country OLG Model Under Free Trade -- 10 Factor Proportion, Inter-Sectoral Trade, and Product Life Cycle -- 11 Product Differentiation, Decreasing Costs, and Intra-Sectoral Trade -- 12 Globalization, Capital Accumulation, and Terms of Trade -- 13 Innovation, Growth, and Trade in a Two-Country OLG Model -- 14 Real Exchange Rage and Public Debt in a Two-Advanced-Country OLG Model -- 15 Public Debt Reduction in Advanced Countries and Its Impacts on Emerging Countries -- 16 External Balance, Dynamic Efficiency, and Welfare Effects of National Climate Policies -- 17 Nationally and Internationally Optimal Climate Policies -- 18 Modeling the Debt Mechanics of the Euro Zone -- Index