In this paper, we combine together elements from the literature on endogenous growth and on funding of innovations developed by authors such as Arrow [1962], Tirole [1988], Scotchmer [1991,1999], Dasgupta et al. [1996], Gallini and Scotchmer [2003]. We shed a new light on several questions often...

This paper develops a simple two-region endogenous growth model in which individuals must choose where to reside and the government decides the amount of productive public investments for each area. In such a framework, we analyze the implications of a change in government’s regional policy on...