Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/50601 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
School of Economics Discussion Papers No. 10,07
Publisher: 
University of Kent, School of Economics, Canterbury
Abstract: 
We present a simple production technology in which the choice of production technique results in a balanced growth path even in the presence of capital-augmenting technical progress. Given a particular choice of technique, the production function is CES with a less than unitary elasticity of factor substitution. The form of this production technology is also invariant to the choice of units, allowing us to abstract from the normalization considerations that often accompany the use of CES. The approach yields a balanced growth path but short-run time-varying factor shares without requiring an explicit model of the R&D sector.
Subjects: 
balanced growth
capital-augmenting technical progress
measurement units
elasticity of substitution
JEL: 
E25
O33
O40
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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