Explaining Economic Growth with Imperfect Credit Markets
December 1, 2000
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Summary
The purpose of this paper is to explain the humped-shaped behavior of the growth rate. Within a dynamic general equilibrium framework, it is found that, in the early stages of development, the source of growth is the reallocation of resources from sectors low-productivity sectors to high-productivity sectors (“extensive growth”), resulting in increasing growth rates. In the middle and mature stages of development, the source of growth is the higher average productivity achieved by the competition among entrepreneurs (“intensive growth”). As a result, the growth rate could be increasing in the middle stage and then displays a decreasing pattern during the mature stage.
Subject: Credit, Income, Income distribution, Labor, Money, National accounts, Production, Productivity, Self-employment
Keywords: credit, credit constraint, credit restriction, credit-constraint economy, demand function, economic growth, economy experience, growth, Income, Income distribution, market imperfections, Productivity, productivity shock, Self-employment, wealth dynamics, WP
Pages:
29
Volume:
2000
DOI:
Issue:
193
Series:
Working Paper No. 2000/193
Stock No:
WPIEA1932000
ISBN:
9781451859805
ISSN:
1018-5941
