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R&D SPILLOVERS IN AN ENDOGENOUS GROWTH MODEL WITH PHYSICAL CAPITAL, HUMAN CAPITAL, AND VARIETIES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 January 2010

Tiago Neves Sequeira
Tiago Neves Sequeira*
Affiliation:
Universidade da Beira Interior and INOVA Research Center, Universidade Nova de Lisbõa
*
Address correspondence to: Tiago Neves Sequeira, Departamento de Gesto e Economia, Universidade da Beira Interior, 6200-001 Covilhã, Portugal; e-mail: sequeira@ubi.pt.
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Abstract

There is a family of models with physical and human capital and R&D for which convergence properties have been discussed [Lutz G. Arnold, European Economic Review 44, 1599–1605 (2000); Manuel Gómez, Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics 9(1), Article 5 (2005)]. However, spillovers in R&D have been ignored in this context. We introduce spillovers in this model and derive the steady-state and stability properties. This new feature implies that the model is characterized by a system of four differential equations. A unique balanced growth path, along with a two-dimensional stable manifold, is obtained under simple and reasonable conditions. Transition is oscillatory toward the steady state for plausible values of parameters. We discovered that these features are due to the presence of the R&D spillovers externality in the decentralized equilibrium.

Keywords

ConvergenceStabilitySpilloversR&D
Type
Articles
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Macroeconomic Dynamics , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , April 2011 , pp. 223 - 239
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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