The Thesis investigates issues of growth and development economics from both a theoretical and empirical perspective. The basic stylised fact which motivate the analysis are the existence, documented in the work, of poverty traps and the observation that there is a critical stage in which growth becomes the normal condition of a society. The main objective of the work is to identify economic determinants which explain the growth-stagnation dichotomy, or why countries find more difficulties in activating growth rather than in keeping growth going. In the first chapter, I construct a model which combines self-sustained growth and 'underdevelopment traps' into a common analytical framework. The model exhibits aggregate non-convexities and thre...
Comparatively low levels of health and economic institutions are present in certain countries and no...
We provide a Keynesian growth theory in which pessimistic expectations can lead to very persistent, ...
This work investigates the qualitative and quantitative dynamics of a Solow–Swan growth model with d...
The paper presents a model which combines self-sustained growth and '‘underdevelopment traps’ into a...
Abstract: We show that, contrary to a widely spread error, when the savings and the population growt...
This research tests the hypothesis that international cross-country differences in economic growth a...
Abstract Purpose The authors analyse a growth model to explain how economic fluctuations are prima...
Parallel session 7. Poverty dimensionsPresented at GLOBELICS 2009, 7th International Conference, 6-8...
We study the e®ect of endogenous time preference in a simple neo-classical model of growth. The vari...
textabstractEndogenous population growth, i.e., making the rate of population growth dependent on so...
We look for permanent effects to per capita GDP from exogenous, temporary shocks. Our shocks are tem...
Abstract. Endogenous population growth, i.e., making the rate of population growth dependent on soci...
Chakraborty [Journal of Economic Theory, 2004] introduces endogenous mortality in a two period overl...
This paper investigates the problem of sustaining economic growth, viewed from the perspective of ho...
This paper studies a simple endogenous growth model to explain growth slowdowns. It is designed to e...
Comparatively low levels of health and economic institutions are present in certain countries and no...
We provide a Keynesian growth theory in which pessimistic expectations can lead to very persistent, ...
This work investigates the qualitative and quantitative dynamics of a Solow–Swan growth model with d...
The paper presents a model which combines self-sustained growth and '‘underdevelopment traps’ into a...
Abstract: We show that, contrary to a widely spread error, when the savings and the population growt...
This research tests the hypothesis that international cross-country differences in economic growth a...
Abstract Purpose The authors analyse a growth model to explain how economic fluctuations are prima...
Parallel session 7. Poverty dimensionsPresented at GLOBELICS 2009, 7th International Conference, 6-8...
We study the e®ect of endogenous time preference in a simple neo-classical model of growth. The vari...
textabstractEndogenous population growth, i.e., making the rate of population growth dependent on so...
We look for permanent effects to per capita GDP from exogenous, temporary shocks. Our shocks are tem...
Abstract. Endogenous population growth, i.e., making the rate of population growth dependent on soci...
Chakraborty [Journal of Economic Theory, 2004] introduces endogenous mortality in a two period overl...
This paper investigates the problem of sustaining economic growth, viewed from the perspective of ho...
This paper studies a simple endogenous growth model to explain growth slowdowns. It is designed to e...
Comparatively low levels of health and economic institutions are present in certain countries and no...
We provide a Keynesian growth theory in which pessimistic expectations can lead to very persistent, ...
This work investigates the qualitative and quantitative dynamics of a Solow–Swan growth model with d...