Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/171494 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
Economics Working Paper Series No. 06/50
Publisher: 
ETH Zurich, CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research, Zurich
Abstract: 
We analyze a multi-sector growth model with directed technical change where man-made capital and exhaustible resources are essen- tial for production. The relative profitability of factor-specific inno- vations endogenously determines whether technical progress will be capital- or resource-augmenting. We show that convergence to bal- anced growth implies zero capital-augmenting innovations: in the long run, the economy exhibits purely resource-augmenting technical change. This result provides sound microfoundations for the broad class of models of exogenous/endogenous growth where resource-aug- menting progress is required to sustain consumption in the long run, contradicting the view that these models are conceptually biased in favor of sustainability.
Subjects: 
Endogenous Growth
Directed Technical Change
Exhaustible Resources
Sustainability
JEL: 
O31
O33
O41
Q32
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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