Ghana’s economy was identical to South Korea’s economy in the 1960s. Since the 1970s, however, Ghana’s economy has substantially lagged. To explain Ghana’s poor long-run economic growth, we build a neoclassical growth model to primarily examine the role of Ghana’s barriers to physical...

We prove a generalized, multi-factor version of the Uzawa steady-state growth theorem, Balanced growth with capital-augmenting technical change is possible when capital has a unitary elasticity of substitution with at least one other factor of production, Thus, a neoclassical growth model with...

We construct a 3-factor, directed technical change growth model that ex-hibits capital-augmenting technical change on the balanced growth path (BGP), circumventing the issues usually caused by the 2-factor Uzawa growth theorem. We calibrate the model to the United States and consider a...

This paper studies how national research subsidies affect productivity growth and national welfare through adjustments in the geographic location of research and development (R&D) across countries. Our two-country framework features a tension in the firm-level innovation location decision...

We model a dynamic data economy with fully endogenous growth where agents generate data from consumption and share them with innovation and production firms. Different from other productive factors such as labor or capital, data are nonrival not only among firms but also in their uses across...

Many studies have identified the negative effect of environmental regulation on capital accumulation and the positive effect on innovation. This observed capital-innovation tradeoff due to environmental regulation lacks theoretical underpinning. We fill this gap by developing a unified...

Many studies have identified the negative effect of environmental regulation on capital accumulation and the positive effect on innovation, but this observed capital-innovation tradeoff due to environmental regulation lacks theoretical underpinning. We fill this gap by developing a unified...

Introduction: Why This Book? Why Now? -- Chapter 1: LEARNING FROM GROWTH LEADERS -- Chapter 2: DEMONSTRATING LEADERSHIP COMMITMENT TO INNOVATION -- Chapter 3: STRATEGIES FOR ACHIEVING GROWTH AMBITIONS -- Chapter 4: SEEKING GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES -- Chapter 5: DECIDING WHICH OPPORTUNITIES --...