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This is my PhD dissertation defended in 1966 at the University of Minnesota and it was never published. It has been cited and used in other researchers work so I now make it available. The problem of optimal resource allocation over time is formulated as an optimal control problem. This is where...
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The effect of public investment on economic growth is a crucial public policy issue. Empirical research into this question was stimulated by Aschauer (1989), who suggested that public capital has a powerful impact on the productivity of private capital.Aschauer's results were controversial and...
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The paper analyses the way in which monetary and fiscal policy influences the performances of economic growth. The analysis is made on the basis of a dynamic model with discrete variables of the Sidrauski- Brock type, with infinite-lived households and money in the utility function. The model is...
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In this work we examine how economic growth affects public debt when interacted with reelection prospects. Reelection considerations shorten political time horizons and give rise to political myopia that exacerbates debt accumulation. That laxer institutional reelection restrictions (e.g. no...
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) topological concepts in standard branches of growth and development theory …
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This article provides a rigorous asymptotic analysis of long-term growth rates under both proportional and Morton-Pliska transaction costs. We consider a general incomplete financial market with an unspanned Markov factor process that includes the Heston stochastic volatility model and the...
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Mainstream endogenous growth models assume that new knowledge is embodied into new intermediate or final goods, monopolistically supplied by the patent holder. Recent technological progress, however, often gives rise to pure intellectual contents, such as software codes or business models,...
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In this paper, we analyze the consequences of delays and cost overruns typically associated with the provision of public infrastructure in the context of a growing economy. Our results indicate that uncertainty about the arrival of public capital can more than offset its positive spillovers for...
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that drive economic growth. The two stages of economic development have been indicated in the growth theory of … macroeconomics and in the various “turning point” theories in development economics, including Lewis's dual economy theory, Kuznets … reveals these two stages. Using the two-stage theory of economic development, we find that the People's Republic of China …
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South Africa has experienced high budget deficits accompanied by sluggish economic growth over the years. Fears mount that such a trend may worsen due to the advent of the Covid-19. Yet, the effect of budget deficit on economic growth remains one of the widely debated topics in economics. This...
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