Recent years have seen a rapid development of model connecting growth and unemployment, but their empirical relevance is not fully known. This paper develops a simple framework for testing a prediction shared by many growth-theoretic models of unemployment, namely, economic fundamentals other...

This paper argues that in a growing economy unemployment can be the cause of goods markets failures, even if these are purely transitory. As the economy grows, new firms wish to enter products are accepted on the market, which we model as a purely transitory demand shock. It may take some time,...

This paper explores the effect of policy variability (or frequency of regime switching) on economic growth and welfare. We study a one sector growth model where investment can be subsidized at either a positive rate or not subsidized at all.

This paper develops a two-sector overlapping generations model in which one sector produces an externality on the environmental quality and the other has no effect. We assume that environmental quality degradation results from production activity of one sector. Then, we characterize the...

In this ppaer we extend the Uzawa-Lucas endogenous growth model by including housing along three directions: as a households' provider of services and application for savings, as a productive sector (construction), and as an input in education and training activities. The consequences of this...

We analyze the effect of a constant debt policy on capital accumulation and provide an indepth treatment of the dynamics in the economy of Diamond. We derive the conditions for avoiding a debt crisis in both the short-run and the long-run and provide geometrical tools to analyze the issue of...

In this paper, we develop a Schumpeterian discrete-time model of endogeneous growth with an explicit market for the resource used for innovation-creating investment, and study its global dynamics. We show, among others, that the level of investment may fluctuate chaotically for a compact range...

This paper investigates a model with tachnological cycles induced by shifts in technologies. The key feature is that technological development occurs partly by discrete replacement of obsolete technologies, partly by continuous innovation of components for a pervasive general purpose technology....

In this paper, I analyze a quality ladder model in which innovation activities in improving the quality of intermediate inputs are financed by bank loans. It will be shown that the multiple equilibria may emerge depending on the functional form of the probability of success in innovation activities.

This paper presents a model of R&D-driven growth without scale effects where firms can engage in both horizontal and vertical R&D activities.