Endogenous Growth, Semi-endogenous Growth... or Both? A Simple Hybrid Model

Cozzi, Guido (2017): Endogenous Growth, Semi-endogenous Growth... or Both? A Simple Hybrid Model. Forthcoming in: Economics Letters , Vol. 154, (May 2017)

Abstract

First generation endogenous growth models had the counterfactual implication that the long-term growth of per-capita GDP increased with the population size. Two influential growth paradigms, the semi-endogenous and the second generation fully endogenous, eliminated this strong scale effect. Both solutions have useful aspects and insights, but very different policy implications. This paper combines both approaches into a single hybrid model class, and shows that no matter the weight assigned to each paradigm, the long-run predictions of the semi-endogenous policy dominate with high enough population growth rates, while the long-run predictions of the fully endogenous policy dominate at low population growth rates.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Strong scale effect; Semi-endogenous growth; Fully endogenous growth.
• Subjects: O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O3 - Innovation ; Research and Development ; Technological Change ; Intellectual Property Rights; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O4 - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity

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