Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/26192 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 2148
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We analyze a generalized neoclassical growth model that combines a normalized CES production function and possible asymmetries of savings out of factor incomes. This generalized model helps to shed new light on a recent debate concerning the impact of factor substitution and income distribution on economic growth. We can show that this impact relies on both an efficiency and an acceleration effect, where the latter is caused by the distributional consequences of an increase in the elasticity of substitution. While the efficiency effect is always positive, the direction of the acceleration effect depends on the particular savings hypothesis. However, if savings out of capital income are substantial so that a certain threshold value is surpassed we find that the efficiency effect dominates and higher factor substitution can work as a major engine of growth.
Subjects: 
capital accumulation
elasticity of substitution
income distribution
neoclassical growth model
JEL: 
E21
O11
O41
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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