This paper presents an overlapping generations model with technology choice and credit market imperfections, in order to investigate a possible source of underdevelopment. The model shows that a better financial infrastructure that provides stronger enforcement of contracts facilitates the...

This paper presents an overlapping generations model with technology choice and credit market imperfections, in order to investigate a possible source of underdevelopment. The model shows that a better financial infrastructure that provides stronger enforcement of contracts facilitates the...

We construct a two-sector endogenous growth model in which productive government spending is essential for sustaining an economy's long-run growth. It is shown that, like the original one-sector [Barro, R.J., 1990. Government spending in a simple model of endogenous growth. Journal of Political...