2019
DOI: 10.1111/ecin.12850
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Factor Income Distribution and Endogenous Economic Growth: Piketty Meets Romer

Abstract: What is the relationship between the economy's long‐run growth rate, its capital‐income ratio, and its factor income distribution? A satisfactory answer requires an endogenous growth and savings rate. We scrutinize Piketty's (2014) theory in a richly parameterized variant of Romer's (1990) seminal model with and without population growth. The economy's growth and savings rate are exogenous in Piketty's theory and endogenous in Romer's. In contrast to Piketty's Second Fundamental Law of Capitalism a smaller gro… Show more

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“…For the measurement of biased technological progress, the following methods are available. The first method is the constant elasticity of the substitution production function [20,21]. Klump [22] used the CES technique to gauge technological progress in the United States and discovered a labor bias.…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For the measurement of biased technological progress, the following methods are available. The first method is the constant elasticity of the substitution production function [20,21]. Klump [22] used the CES technique to gauge technological progress in the United States and discovered a labor bias.…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%