The standard result in the literature states that balanced growth is only possible with labor-augmenting technological progress. If a more general form of technical progress is considered, the Cobb-Douglas production function is typically required (Uzawa, 1961). However, we show that this result...

This paper studies China’s four-fold increase in per capita GDP relative to the U.S. between 1995 and 2019. First, we argue that China’s growth pattern is very similar to that of several other East Asia economies that initially grew very quickly. Second, we show that a minimalist...

This study analyzes the conditions for the existence of a non-trivial steady-state equilibrium in an overlapping generations (OLG) model. Galor and Ryder (1989) and subsequent studies established the conditions for the existence of equilibrium in a OLG model. Although commonly used and...

This paper studies China's four-fold increase in per capita GDP relative to the U.S. between 1995 and 2019. First, we argue that China's growth pattern is very similar to that of several other East Asia economies that initially grew very quickly. Second, we show that a minimalist...

This paper studies China's four-fold increase in per capita GDP relative to the U.S. between 1995 and 2019. First, we argue that China's growth pattern is very similar to that of several other East Asia economies that initially grew very quickly. Second, we show that a minimalist...

This paper analyzes the dependence of average consumption on the saving rate in a one-sector neoclassical Solow growth model with production shocks and stochastic rates of population growth and depreci-ation where arbitrary ergodic processes are considered. We show that the long-run behavior of...

We study the behaviour: of the average aggregate growth rate of an economy, driven by only small idiosyncratic total factor productivity shocks and where investment behaviour at the single plant level follows an (S,s) policy. We assume that in the case of investment (disinvestment) there are...

This chapter surveys intergenerational altruism in neoclassical growth models. It first examines Barro's approach to intergenerational altruism, whereby successive generations are linked by recursive altruistic preferences. Individuals have an altruistic concern only for their children, who in...

This paper surveys intergenerational altruism in neoclassical growth models. It first examines Barro's approach to intergenerational altruism, whereby successive generations are linked by recursive altruistic preferences. Individuals have an altruistic concern only for their children, who in...