Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/155116 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2000
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 62. 2000
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
In this paper we build an endogenous growth model where human capital and ideas are complements in the long-run equilibrium and technological progress takes the form of a continuous increase in the number of horizontally differentiated varieties of intermediate inputs. One peculiarity of the economy we analyse is that in the sectors where both kinds of capital are accumulated no externality (or spillover) effect does exist. Many insights arise from the model. First of all, due to the complementarity hypothesis, multiple steady states emerge. Secondly, growth does not depend on the scale of the economy, but turns out to be sensitive to the fraction of human capital devoted to research. Finally, when skilled work and ideas are perfect complements, product market competition is unambiguously bad for growth. eywords:
Subjects: 
Endogenous growth
innovation
human capital
industrial organisation
macroeconomics
JEL: 
L16
O31
O41
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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