The neoclassical growth model assumes fixed labor supply and competitive labor markets. Is it harmless to ignore monopsonistic power in the neoclassical growth model? The paper argues that it is not, especially if a growth model needs to be consistent with the long-run dynamics of the labor...

The study of the bias of new technologies is important both as part of the analysis of the nature of technology adoption and the direction of technological change, and to understand the distributional implications of new technologies. In this paper, I analyze the equilibrium bias of technology....

A mechanism of endogenous growth suitable for investigation of sectoral or regional interaction is developed. It is shown how the high value placed on production linkages by economic historians might be reconciled with the high value placed on openness (often implying lack of linkages) by...

We study a model designed to understand the concept of unbalanced growth. We define leading sectors to be those that raise the profits from industrialization for other sectors the most. We identify the leading sectors and show that subsidizing them in sequences will raise welfare if the future...

Disequilibrium macroeconomic theory [e.g. Clower, and Barroand Grossman] is extended to deal with capital accumulation in the long run. A growth model a la Kaldor is chosen for a frame-work. The real wage is supposed to be adjusted slowly, therefore there may be excess demand or supply in the...

As a newly emerging factor, data has been widely utilized in producing goods and services, and the nonbalanced growth between digital industries and non-digital industries is significant in recent years. In the digital economy, data has two unique features. One is the fact that data in one...

Focusing on the interindustry aspect of the structural economic dynamics (SED) to yield a non-autarchic perspective to the vertically integrated sectors (VIS), we go a step further in establishing that productivity growth at the industry level is transmitted via inter and intra-sectoral...

The sectoral allocation of labor differs considerably across developed economies, even in the presence of similar patterns of structural change. A general equilibrium model that captures the stylized facts of structural change is presented. In this framework, product market regulations raise...

The ecologically unequal exchange (EUE) literature has provided ample empirical evidence for asymmetric transfer of material and energy resources from low-income to high-income countries. However, research has not been able to clearly specify the causal mechanisms driving these processes. This...

Der Prozess der europäischen Integration ist nach einer Periode erheblicher Erfolge ins Stocken geraten. Nicht nur die Finalität der EU ist umstritten, auch die Einigung auf kleinere Reformen oder einzelne Verordnungen fällt zunehmend schwer. Manches ist auf die Verunsicherung durch die...

Die Staatsschuldenquoten werden infolge der Coronakrise weltweit erheblich steigen. Angesichts des strikten fiskalischen Regelwerks für die Mitgliedsländer der EU und insbesondere des Euroraums bedeutet das eine enorme Herausforderung. Die Europäische Kommission berät seit Anfang des Jahres...

Debt-to-GDP ratios are set to rise significantly all over the world as a result of the coronavirus crisis. This will pose a huge challenge for the EU's member states and in particular the euro area countries, because of the strict fiscal rules that apply to them. In a consultation process that...

Die Staatsschuldenquoten werden infolge der Coronakrise weltweit erheblich steigen. Angesichts des strikten fiskalischen Regelwerks für die Mitgliedsländer der EU und insbesondere des Euroraums bedeutet das eine enorme Herausforderung. Die Europäische Kommission berät seit Anfang des Jahres...

Debt-to-GDP ratios are set to rise significantly all over the world as a result of the coronavirus crisis. This will pose a huge challenge for the EU's member states and in particular the euro area countries, because of the strict fiscal rules that apply to them. In a consultation process that...

Der Prozess der europäischen Integration ist nach einer Periode erheblicher Erfolge ins Stocken geraten. Nicht nur die Finalität der EU ist umstritten, auch die Einigung auf kleinere Reformen oder einzelne Verordnungen fällt zunehmend schwer. Manches ist auf die Verunsicherung durch die...

Since the time of Adam Smith, economists have studied the dynamics of economic systems. From a system dynamics perspective, the change in any system over time occurs when flows accumulate in stocks - i.e., by the process of integration. Of course, economists have long been familiar with, and...

There are some views explaining unbalanced growth, but the impact of interest rates on the structure of the economy has still been poorly investigated. This paper assesses the impact of interest rates on the productive structure of the economy. It is argued that as interest rates are fixed,...

The year 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of William J. Baumol’s seminal model of "unbalanced growth", which predicts the so-called "Growth Disease", i.e., the tendency of aggregate productivity growth to slow down in the process of tertiarisation. In an important contribution published in...

We construct a two-sector (agriculture and modern) overlapping generations growth model calibrated to India to study the effects of sectoral tax rates, sectoral infrastructure investments, and labor market frictions on potential growth in India. Our model is motivated by the idea that because...