Quantifying Optimal Policy in an Endogenous Growth Model: A Theoretical Analysis

1
Ahmed Bellakhdhar
Ahmed Bellakhdhar
1 University of Tunis, Tunisia

Send Message

To: Author

GJMBR Volume 19 Issue F2

Article Fingerprint

ReserarchID

N1US0

Quantifying Optimal Policy in an Endogenous Growth Model: A Theoretical Analysis Banner
  • English
  • Afrikaans
  • Albanian
  • Amharic
  • Arabic
  • Armenian
  • Azerbaijani
  • Basque
  • Belarusian
  • Bengali
  • Bosnian
  • Bulgarian
  • Catalan
  • Cebuano
  • Chichewa
  • Chinese (Simplified)
  • Chinese (Traditional)
  • Corsican
  • Croatian
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • Esperanto
  • Estonian
  • Filipino
  • Finnish
  • French
  • Frisian
  • Galician
  • Georgian
  • German
  • Greek
  • Gujarati
  • Haitian Creole
  • Hausa
  • Hawaiian
  • Hebrew
  • Hindi
  • Hmong
  • Hungarian
  • Icelandic
  • Igbo
  • Indonesian
  • Irish
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Javanese
  • Kannada
  • Kazakh
  • Khmer
  • Korean
  • Kurdish (Kurmanji)
  • Kyrgyz
  • Lao
  • Latin
  • Latvian
  • Lithuanian
  • Luxembourgish
  • Macedonian
  • Malagasy
  • Malay
  • Malayalam
  • Maltese
  • Maori
  • Marathi
  • Mongolian
  • Myanmar (Burmese)
  • Nepali
  • Norwegian
  • Pashto
  • Persian
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Punjabi
  • Romanian
  • Russian
  • Samoan
  • Scots Gaelic
  • Serbian
  • Sesotho
  • Shona
  • Sindhi
  • Sinhala
  • Slovak
  • Slovenian
  • Somali
  • Spanish
  • Sundanese
  • Swahili
  • Swedish
  • Tajik
  • Tamil
  • Telugu
  • Thai
  • Turkish
  • Ukrainian
  • Urdu
  • Uzbek
  • Vietnamese
  • Welsh
  • Xhosa
  • Yiddish
  • Yoruba
  • Zulu

This paper aims to characterize the optimal growth path of an endogenous growth model with domestic innovation, human capital and external technology spillovers through import of technologically advanced products and foreign direct investments. There are three sources of inefficiency in the model; monopolistic competition in the intermediate-goods sector, duplication externalities and spillovers in R&D. This raises the question of whether an adequate government intervention can provide the required incentives to correct these inefficiencies and make the decentralized economy to replicate the first-best solution attainable by a social planner. In this study, we find that the first-best optimum can be decentralized by means of a tax on capital income at a constant rate combined with equality between the share of public spending in the total expenditure on education net of subsidy and the tax on labor income and a time-varying subsidy to R&D. Unlike previous works that focus solely on the steady state, we take explicitly into account the transitional dynamics as well.

35 Cites in Articles

References

  1. Maria Alvarez-Pelaez,Christian Groth (2005). Too little or too much R&D?.
  2. Lutz Arnold (2000). Endogenous growth with physical capital, human capital and product variety: A comment.
  3. Lutz Arnold (2000). Endogenous technological change: a note on stability.
  4. S Basu (1996). Procyclical productivity: Increasing returns or cyclical utilization.
  5. Robert Barro (1990). Government Spending in a Simple Model of Endogeneous Growth.
  6. David Coe,Elhanan Helpman (1995). International R&D spillovers.
  7. David Coe,Elhanan Helpman,Alexander Hoffmaister (1997). North-South R & D Spillovers.
  8. Tomás Del Barrio-Castro,Enrique López-Bazo,Guadalupe Serrano-Domingo (2002). New evidence on international R&D spillovers, human capital and productivity in the OECD.
  9. H.-J Engelbrecht (1997). International R&D spillovers, human capital and productivity in OECD economies: An empirical investigation.
  10. M Funke,H Strulik (2000). On endogenous growth with physical capital, human capital and product variety.
  11. M Gômez (2011). Duplication externalities in an endogenous growth model with physical capital, human capital, and R&D.
  12. Zvi Griliches (1992). The Search for R&D Spillovers.
  13. Gene Grossman,Elhanan Helpman (1991). Quality Ladders in the Theory of Growth.
  14. Volker Grossmann,Thomas Steger,Timo Trimborn (2010). Dynamically Optimal R&D Subsidization.
  15. N Stern (2010). Public Policy for Growth and Poverty Reduction.
  16. Joonkyung Ha,Peter Howitt (2007). Accounting for Trends in Productivity and R&D: A Schumpeterian Critique of Semi‐Endogenous Growth Theory.
  17. Maurizio Iacopetta (2011). Formal education and public knowledge.
  18. C Jones (1995). R&D-based models of economic growth.
  19. J Williams (2000). Too much of a good thing? The economics of investment in R&D.
  20. R Judd,Kenneth (1987). The Welfare Cost of Factor Taxation in a Perfect-Foresight Model.
  21. R Judd,Kenneth (1999). Optimal taxation and spending in general competitive growth models.
  22. S Kortum (1993). Equilibrium R&D and the patent-R&D ratio: U. S. evidence.
  23. V Lambson,K Phillips (2007). Market structure and Schumpeterian growth.
  24. Jacob Madsen (2008). Semi-endogenous versus Schumpeterian growth models: testing the knowledge production function using international data.
  25. Jacob Madsen,S Saxena,James Ang (2010). The Indian Growth Miracle and Endogenous Growth.
  26. S Norrbin (1993). The relation between price and marginal cost in U.S. industry: A contradiction.
  27. Michael Porter,Scott Stern (2000). Measuring the "Ideas" Production Function: Evidence from International Patent Output.
  28. P Romer (1990). Endogenous technological change.
  29. Andreas Savvides,Marios Zachariadis (2005). International Technology Diffusion and the Growth of TFP in the Manufacturing Sector of Developing Economies.
  30. T Sequeira (2011). R&D spillovers in an endogenous growth model with physical capital, human capital, and varieties.
  31. T Steger (2005). Welfare implications of non-scale R&D-based growth models.
  32. Nancy Stokey (1995). R&D and Economic Growth.
  33. Holger Strulik (2007). Too Much of a Good Thing? The Quantitative Economics of R&D‐driven Growth Revisited.
  34. Timo Trimborn,Karl-Josef Koch,Thomas Steger (2008). MULTIDIMENSIONAL TRANSITIONAL DYNAMICS: A SIMPLE NUMERICAL PROCEDURE.
  35. Stephen Turnovsky (2000). Fiscal policy, elastic labor supply, and endogenous growth.

Funding

No external funding was declared for this work.

Conflict of Interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Ethical Approval

No ethics committee approval was required for this article type.

Data Availability

Not applicable for this article.

Ahmed Bellakhdhar. 2019. \u201cQuantifying Optimal Policy in an Endogenous Growth Model: A Theoretical Analysis\u201d. Global Journal of Management and Business Research - F: Real estate, Event, Tourism Management & Transporting GJMBR-F Volume 19 (GJMBR Volume 19 Issue F2): .

Download Citation

Journal Specifications

Crossref Journal DOI 10.17406/GJMBR

Print ISSN 0975-5853

e-ISSN 2249-4588

Keywords
Classification
GJMBR-F Classification: JEL Code: D42
Version of record

v1.2

Issue date

September 12, 2019

Language

English

Experiance in AR

The methods for personal identification and authentication are no exception.

Read in 3D

The methods for personal identification and authentication are no exception.

Article Matrices
Total Views: 2519
Total Downloads: 1242
2026 Trends
Research Identity (RIN)
Related Research

Published Article

This paper aims to characterize the optimal growth path of an endogenous growth model with domestic innovation, human capital and external technology spillovers through import of technologically advanced products and foreign direct investments. There are three sources of inefficiency in the model; monopolistic competition in the intermediate-goods sector, duplication externalities and spillovers in R&D. This raises the question of whether an adequate government intervention can provide the required incentives to correct these inefficiencies and make the decentralized economy to replicate the first-best solution attainable by a social planner. In this study, we find that the first-best optimum can be decentralized by means of a tax on capital income at a constant rate combined with equality between the share of public spending in the total expenditure on education net of subsidy and the tax on labor income and a time-varying subsidy to R&D. Unlike previous works that focus solely on the steady state, we take explicitly into account the transitional dynamics as well.

This paper aims to characterize the optimal growth path of an endogenous growth model with domestic innovation, human capital and external technology spillovers through import of technologically advanced products and foreign direct investments. There are three sources of inefficiency in the model; monopolistic competition in the intermediate-goods sector, duplication externalities and spillovers in R&D. This raises the question of whether an adequate government intervention can provide the required incentives to correct these inefficiencies and make the decentralized economy to replicate the first-best solution attainable by a social planner. In this study, we find that the first-best optimum can be decentralized by means of a tax on capital income at a constant rate combined with equality between the share of public spending in the total expenditure on education net of subsidy and the tax on labor income and a time-varying subsidy to R&D. Unlike previous works that focus solely on the steady state, we take explicitly into account the transitional dynamics as well.

Our website is actively being updated, and changes may occur frequently. Please clear your browser cache if needed. For feedback or error reporting, please email [email protected]
×

This Page is Under Development

We are currently updating this article page for a better experience.

Request Access

Please fill out the form below to request access to this research paper. Your request will be reviewed by the editorial or author team.
X

Quote and Order Details

Contact Person

Invoice Address

Notes or Comments

This is the heading

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut elit tellus, luctus nec ullamcorper mattis, pulvinar dapibus leo.

High-quality academic research articles on global topics and journals.

Quantifying Optimal Policy in an Endogenous Growth Model: A Theoretical Analysis

Ahmed Bellakhdhar
Ahmed Bellakhdhar University of Tunis, Tunisia

Research Journals