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Productivity of inputs is an important determinant of the competitiveness of firms in national and international markets. Productivity growth arises from deliberate decisions to innovate but the technological opportunities could be such that different inputs would have different rates of growth. Previous literature has mostly concentrated on labor productivity but empirical studies indicate that productivity of capital is also increasing. One of the objectives of this book is to examine the difference or bias in the productivity growth of the two inputs.
In this book, application of this general approach to study of biased technical change is developed and new empirical results presented for both macroeconomies and microeconomic firms.
List of contents
An Overview.- An Overview.- Biased Technical Change.- The Stability of the Solow-Swan Model with Biased Technical Change.- A Model of Optimal Economic Growth with Endogenous Bias.- A Three Sector Model of Endogenous Hicksian Bias.- Estimation of Biased Technical Progress.- A Note on Modelling Endogenous Growth.- Technical Change and International Competition.- Economic Conservation Laws.- Optimal Economic Growth: Test of Income/Wealth Conservation Laws in OECD Countries.- Economic Conservation Laws as Indices of Corporate Performance.- Empirical Tests of the Total Value Conservation Law of the Firm.- Hartwick's Rule and Economic Conservation Laws.
About the author
Ryuzo Sato is a C. V. Starr Professor Emeritus of Economics at the Stern School of Business, New York University. He was director of the Center for Japan U.S. Business and Economic Studies at the Stern School. Prior to becoming a Stern faculty member, he was a professor of economics at Brown University. Professor Sato also taught at Harvard University, The University of Tokyo, Kyoto University, and Bonn University. He was the founding chief editor of Japan and the World Economy, an international theory and policy journal. For more than 40 years, Professor Sato has divided his time between Japan and the United States, and he conducts research, gives lectures, and writes on the subject of Japan U.S. relations. Professor Sato, who was a Fulbright Scholar, received his B.A. in economics and his Dr. Economics from Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, and his Ph.D. in economics from Johns Hopkins University. His principal areas of research interest are mathematical economics and economic growth.
Summary
Productivity of inputs is an important determinant of the competitiveness of firms in national and international markets. Productivity growth arises from deliberate decisions to innovate but the technological opportunities could be such that different inputs would have different rates of growth. Previous literature has mostly concentrated on labor productivity but empirical studies indicate that productivity of capital is also increasing. One of the objectives of this book is to examine the difference or bias in the productivity growth of the two inputs.
In this book, application of this general approach to study of biased technical change is developed and new empirical results presented for both macroeconomies and microeconomic firms.
