Download or read book Capital Time and Transitional Dynamics written by Harald Hagemann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-12-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the words of Robert M. Solow traverse analysis "is the easiest part of skiing, but the hardest part of economics". The aim of this volume is to assess the state and scope of modern traverse analysis as it had been initiated by John Hicks in his pioneering contribution Capital and Time (1973). The analysis of an economy which originally had been in a growth equilibrium which was disturbed by technical progress is one of the most challenging problems in economics. This book takes Hicks’ work as the point of departure for theoretical work on the macroeconomic theory of capital dynamics along transition non-steady state paths The original contributions in this volume explore the manifold theoretical roots of traverse analysis in classical and post-classical literature, its features as a specific method of economic dynamics, and its applications in a variety of fields from monetary economics to development and international economics. The essays thereby focus on the ways ahead from Capital and Time that have been suggested and actively pursued by a number of scholars in recent years. Its central theme is the role of capital structures as critical factors in determining the actual dynamics of any given economic system. This volume is inspired by the belief that this state of affairs is not a satisfactory one, and outlines a new agenda for capital theory. Contributors include Edwin Burmeister, Jean-Luc Gaffard and Heinz Kurz.

Download or read book Capital Time and Transitional Dynamics written by Harald Hagemann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-01-13 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative volume presents a comprehensive appraisal of John Hicks' Capital and Time (1973) thirty years on from its original publication. Contributors include Walter Eltis, Heinz Kurz and Maghnad Desai.

Download or read book Transitional Dynamics in Two sector Models of Endogenous Growth written by Casey B. Mulligan and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The steady state and transitional dynamics of two-sector models of endogenous growth are analyzed in this paper. We describe necessary conditions for endogenous growth. The conditions allow us to reduce the dynamics of the solution to a system with one state-like and two control-like variables. We analyze the determinants of the long run growth rate. We use the Time-Elimination Method to analyze the transitional dynamics of the models. We find that there are transitions in real time if the point-in-time production possibility frontier is strictly concave, which occurs, for example, if the two production functions are different or if there are decreasing point-in-time returns in any of the sectors. We also show that if the models have a transition in real time, the models are globally saddle path stable. We find that the wealth or consumption smoothing effect tends to dominate the substitution or real wage effect so that the transition from relatively low levels of physical capital is carried over through high work effort rather than high savings. We develop some empirical implications. We show that the models predict conditional convergence in that, in a cross section, the growth rate is predicted to be negatively related to initial income but only after some measure of human capital is held constant. Thus, the models are consistent with existing empirical cross country evidence.

Download or read book Transitional Dynamics and Endogenous Growth Revisited The Case of Public Capital written by Blanca Sanchez-Robles and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper explores some applications of the time elimination technique to models of endogenous growth that include two kinds of inputs (private and public capital). Two alternative specifications of the production function are considered: i.e. a CES and a Jones-Manuelli technology. Because of the homogeneity of degree one of both production functions on private and public capital considered together, these new models predict endogenous growth, but the main difference with the standard model (Barro, 1990) is that these new specifications allow for transitional dynamics towards the steady state. First, the steady state rate of growth of output is obtained for both models, by means of applying the traditional optimal control techniques. Next, the models are calibrated and simulated by applying the time elimination technique. This numerical method allows us to understand the transitional dynamics more deeply. It also provides some insights about the speed of convergence of the model towards the steady state under each of the production function settings and for various values of the parameters. Basic results show that the speed of convergence is slower if we use a CES specification, whereas the transition is faster and less smooth if a Jones-Manuelli production function is assumed. Finally, the technique enables us to compare the results using different values of some parameters of the models.

Download or read book Phases of Economic Development and the Transitional Dynamics of an Innovation Education Growth Model written by Maurizio Iacopetta and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper extends earlier analysis of the transitional dynamics of a growth model in which both human capital and innovation drive income expansion. Funke and Strulik [2000]. On endogenous growth with physical capital, human capital and product variety. European Economic Review 44 [491-515] suggest that the typical advanced economy follows three development phases, characterized in a temporal order by physical capital accumulation, human capital formation, and innovation, and that the transitional dynamics of the model reproduce such a sequencing. I argue that other sequences of the phases of development are possible and show that the model can generate a trajectory in which innovation precedes human capital formation. This trajectory accords with the observation that the rise in formal education followed with a considerable lag the process of industrialization. U.S. income and educational time series data are used to corroborate the innovation-education trajectory.

Download or read book Global Capital Flows Time Varying Fundamentals and Transitional Exchange Rate Dynamics written by Suleyman H. Kal and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this paper, I investigated the effects of cross border capital flows induced by the rate of risk adjusted excess returns (Sharpe ratio) on the transitional dynamics of the nominal exchange rate's deviation from its fundamental value. For this purpose, a two state time varying transition probability Markov (TVTPM) regime switching process is added to the sticky price exchange rate model with shares (SPERS). I estimated this model using quarterly data on the four most active floating rate currencies for the years 1973 to 2009: the Australian Dollar (AUD), the Canadian Dollar (CAD), the Japanese Yen (JPY) and the British Pound (UKP). The results provide evidence that the Sharpe ratios of debt and equity investments influence the evolution of transitional dynamics of the currencies' deviation from their fundamental values. In addition, I found that the relationship between economic fundamentals and the nominal exchange rates vary depending on the overvaluation or undervaluation of the currencies.

Download or read book Transitional Dynamics Convergence and International Capital Flows in Two country Models of Innovation and Growth written by Klaus Wälde and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Resources Production and Structural Dynamics written by Mauro L. Baranzini and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economists since the First Industrial Revolution have been interested in the links between economic growth and resources, often pointing to resource scarcities as a hindrance to growth. Offering a counter perspective, this volume highlights the positive role that scarcities can play in inducing technical progress and economic growth. It outlines a structural framework for the political economy of scarcity and rents, and offers a novel way of organizing the evidence concerning the role of resources in industrial growth. This book proposes a major shift in the treatment of scarcity issues by focusing on bottlenecks and opportunities arising within the production system, and will appeal to economists and policy makers interested in the role of resources as triggers of structural change.

Download or read book The Effect of Transitional Dynamics on the Distribution of Wealth in a Neoclassical Capital Accumulation Model written by Satyajit Chatterjee and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Transition Dynamics and Trade Policy Reform in Developing Countries written by Joseph F. Francois and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Macroeconomics and the History of Economic Thought written by H.M. Krämer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this Festschrift have been chosen to honour Harald Hagemann and his scientific work. They reflect his main contributions to economic research and his major fields of interest. The essays in the first part deal with various aspects within the history of economic thought. The second part is about the current state of macroeconomics. The essays in the third part of the book cover topics on economic growth and structural dynamics.

Download or read book Capital Augmenting Technical Change and Time Varying Labor Share written by Pengfei Zhang and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We construct a hybrid model of endogenous and semi-endogenous growth to reconcile medium-run changes with long-run constancy of the labor share. Given the fixed population size, endogenous growth in the labor intensive sector implies that labor augmenting technical change could take place at a positive constant rate in the long-run, whereas capital augmenting technical change could only take place during transitional dynamics owing to semi-endogenous growth in the capital intensive sector. The time-varying labor share in the medium-run is the direct result of capital augmenting technical change. Nevertheless, purely labor augmenting technical change in the steady state implies that the labor share must be stable in the long-run.

Download or read book Transitional Dynamics and Economic Growth in Developing Countries written by Thomas Steger and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four stylised facts of aggregate economic growth are set up initially. The growth process is interpreted to represent transitional dynamics rather than balanced-growth equilibria. Against this background, the fundamental importance of subsistence consumption is comprehensively analysed. Subsequently, the meaning of the productive-consumption hypothesis for the intertemporal consumption trade-off and the growth process is investigated. Finally, the process of growth is analysed empirically by means of cross-sectional conditional convergence regressions with endogenous control variables.

Download or read book Pluralistic Economics and Its History written by Ajit Sinha and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2019-05-24 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a history of economics – as it was interpreted, discussed and established as a discipline – in the 20th century. It highlights the pluralism of the discipline and brings together leading voices in the field who reflect on their lifelong work. The chapters draw on a host of traditions of economic thought, including pre-classical, classical, Marxian, neoclassical, Sraffian, post-Keynesian, Cantabrigian and institutionalist traditions in economics. Further, the volume also looks at the history of economics in India and its evolution as a discipline since the country’s independence. This book will appeal to students, researchers and teachers of economics and intellectual history, as well as to the interested general reader.

Download or read book Sraffa and the Reconstruction of Economic Theory Volume One written by E. Levrero and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book accounts for the work done around the two central aspects of Piero Sraffa's contribution to economic analysis, namely the criticism of the neoclassical theory of value and distribution and the reconstruction of economic theory along the lines of the Classical approach.

Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Political Economy written by Ivano Cardinale and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 829 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a major contribution to the study of political economy. With chapters ranging from the origins of political economy to its most exciting research fields, this handbook provides a reassessment of political economy as it stands today, whilst boldly gesturing to where it might head in the future. This handbook transcends the received dichotomy between political economy as an application of rational choice theory or as the study of the causes of societies’ material welfare, outlining a broader field of study that encompasses those traditions. This book will be essential reading for academics, researchers, students, and anyone looking for a comprehensive reassessment of political economy.

Download or read book Methods of Macroeconomic Dynamics written by Stephen J. Turnovsky and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just as macroeconomic models describe the overall economy within a changing, or dynamic, framework, the models themselves change over time. In this text Stephen J. Turnovsky reviews in depth several early models as well as a representation of more recent models. They include traditional (backward-looking) models, linear rational expectations (future-looking) models, intertemporal optimization models, endogenous growth models, and continuous time stochastic models. The author uses examples from both closed and open economies. Whereas others commonly introduce models in a closed context, tacking on a brief discussion of the model in an open economy, Turnovsky integrates the two perspectives throughout to reflect the increasingly international outlook of the field. This new edition has been extensively revised. It contains a new chapter on optimal monetary and fiscal policy, and the coverage of growth theory has been expanded substantially. The range of growth models considered has been extended, with particular attention devoted to transitional dynamics and nonscale growth. The book includes cutting-edge research and unpublished data, including much of the author's own work.