Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/221559 
Year of Publication: 
1996
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Paper No. 1203
Publisher: 
Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management, Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science, Evanston, IL
Abstract: 
This paper puts the neoclassical and neo-Schumpetarian growth models in a unified framework. In doing so, it is argued that these two views of growth, one based on factor accumulation and the other based on innovation, are complementary in that they may capture different phases of a single growth experience. In the models presented here, the economy achieves sustainable growth through cycles, perpetually moving back and forth between two phases, under an empirically plausible condition. One phase is characterized by higher output growth, higher investment, no innovation and a competitive market structure. The other phases is characterized by lower output growth, lower investment, high innovation, and a more monopolistic market structure. Both investment and innovation are essential in sustaining growth indefinitely, and yet only one of them appears to play a domimant role in each phase.
Subjects: 
Endogenous Growth
Endogenous Fluctuations
Global Analysis of Nonlinear Discrete Dynamical Systems
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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