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This paper extends the Schumpeterian model of creative destruction by allowing followers' cost of innovation to increase in their technological distance from the leader. This assumption is motivated by the observation the more technologically advanced the leader is, the harder it is for a...
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Two perspectives on the analysis of economic growth have developed within the input-output framework. On the one hand, Leontief proposed a dynamic model, where investment supplies the necessary capital stock needed to produce future output. On the other hand, Structural Decomposition Analysis...
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This paper shows that the impact of credit supply on economic activity is conditioned by banks' equity distribution. Using a myriad of publicly available data on bank's balance sheet, and mortgage and business lending from the United States, we offer novel empirical evidence on how changes in...
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This paper develops a two-sector R&D-based growth model with congestion effects from increasing urban population … from the modern to the traditional sector and Engel's law holds. In turn, urban congestion effects cause a productivity … allocation depends on the strength of urban congestion effects. -- congestion ; endogenous growth ; Engel's law ; structural …
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Urban Agglomeration and Economic Growth is the fifth volume in the series of books emanating from the activities of the …
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This paper presents a theoretical approach to solve the main problems faced to explain the relationship between aggregate economic growth and the urban structure. The most significant conclusion reached is that there is a theoretical relationship between aggregate economic growth and urban...
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also uneven across space, it also seems relevant to wonder about the effects of the geographic agglomeration of economic … activity. Moreover, it seems relevant to consider not only the levels of inequality and agglomeration, but also their change … specifications and introducing different measures for agglomeration at country level, especially urbanization and urban concentration …
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