`Economic Growth and Factor Substitution: What Happened to the Yugoslav Miracle?': Some Comments

1986 ◽  
Vol 96 (384) ◽  
pp. 1084 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksander Bajt
2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 625-656 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianpo Xue ◽  
Chong K. Yip

This paper provides a unified approach to characterizing the relation between factor substitution and economic growth in different one-sector growth models (namely, the Solow, Ramsey, and Diamond models). Our main finding is that if better factor substitution raises savings in the steady state, then a higher per capita income results. There are two channels by which factor substitution affects savings: the positive efficiency effect via income and the ambiguous distribution effect via factor income shares. If the efficiency effect dominates, then a higher elasticity of substitution leads to a higher level of per capita steady-state income. In transition, factor substitution affects the rate of convergence both directly and through the equilibrium profit share. The former arises from diminishing marginal productivity of capital whereas the latter reflects its relative scarcity. Depending on the interaction of these effects, the net outcomes are characterized.


1997 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 21-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
FRANCIS J. CRONIN ◽  
ELISABETH COLLERAN ◽  
MARK GOLD

2006 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 203-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matteo Aquilina ◽  
Rainer Klump ◽  
Carlo Pietrobelli

1964 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ken-Ichi Inada

1967 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murray C. Kemp ◽  
Eytan Sheshinski ◽  
Pham Chi Thanh

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