In endogenous growth theory models have either increasing or constant ranges of product variety. Developments in modem biotechnology however show cases of increasing, decreasing or constant ranges of product variants. We present a simple endogenous growth model allowing for all of these three...

This innovative book examines the development and evolution of biotechnology in industrialised and developing countries.

BASU [1991], in his introduction, argues that the 1982 debt crisis can be interpreted as a transition from loan pushing to credit rationing induced by an interest shock. He analyzes how in international lending there can be equilibria with credit rationing and with loan pushing. He, and in fact...

If human capital formation necessitates public factors and if the latter are financed by a flat-rate income tax, a neoclassical growth model will produce a growth rate of per capita income and real wages that is proportional to the rate of population growth. If a golden rule tax is not...