Título: A unified theory of structural change
Autores: Guilló Fuentes, María Dolores
Papageorgiou, Chris
Pérez Sebastián, Fidel
Fecha: 2012-07-30
2012-07-30
2010
Publicador: RUA Docencia
Fuente:
Tipo: info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper
Tema: Multi-sector growth model
Structural change
Agriculture and non-agriculture
R&D
Directed innovation
Hon-homothetic preferences
Fundamentos del Análisis Económico
Descripción: This paper uses dynamic general equilibrium and computational methods, inspired by the multi-sector growth model structure in Stephen Turnovsky’s previous and more recent work, to develop a theory that unifies two of the traditional explanations of structural change: sector-biased technical change and non-homothetic preferences. More specifically, we build a multisector overlapping generations growth model with endogenous technical-change and non-homothetic preferences based on an expanding-variety setup with two different R&D technologies; one for agriculture, and another for nonagriculture. Results give additional support to the biased technical-change hypothesis as an important determinant of the structural transformation. The paper also explores where this bias might come from. Our findings suggest that production-side specific factors, such as asymmetries in cross-sector knowledge spillovers could be behind it, and therefore be important to fully explain the process of structural change.
Financial support from Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación and FEDER funds under project SEJ-2007-62656, and from Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas.
Idioma: Inglés

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