This paper analyzes the effects of transitory productivity shocks on long-run output. The study demonstrates that, despite it transitory nature, an adverse productivity shock may result in lower long-run output. A fall in productivity reduces output and savings and, consequently, the interest...

This paper presents a simple "menu cost" example in which there is a clear distinction between price stickiness and downward rigidity of prices. While price stickiness may or may not exist in "menu cost" models, downward rigidity shows up whenever there is a reduction of the expected rate of...

This paper studies the consequences of asymmetric information in the investment sector upon economic growth. In this paper, the information asymmetry generates a moral hazard problem. This moral hazard problem restricts financial arrangements. It is shown that these restrictions make even the...

This paper analyzes the steady-state welfare implications of a Hicks-neutral technological progress, or alternatively, of an i nternational transfer of a Hicks-neutral superior technology within a n overlapping generations framework. The analysis indicates that prod ucers will be induced by...

This paper analyzes strategies for economic growth in a small, open, overlapping-generations economy that has access to perfect international capital markets and is characterized in autarky by multiple, locally stable, stationary equilibria. The study designs a growth scheme consisting of...

This paper suggests that the recent intertemporal studies concerning the implications of terms-of-trade deterioration on the current account of a small open economy may suffer from significant methodological deficiencies. The study demonstrates that, while the assumption of a small open economy...

This article explores the implications of Unified Growth Theory for the origins of existing differences in income per capita across countries. The theory sheds light on three fundamental layers of comparative development. It identifies the factors that have governed the pace of the transition...