Economic Growth and Sectoral Change under Resource Reallocation Costs

Thomas Steger

No 03/30, CER-ETH Economics working paper series from CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research (CER-ETH) at ETH Zurich

Abstract: A general growth model with explicit resource reallocation costs is set up. A new feature is the property of hysteresis (i.e. a continuum of stationary equilibria) in closed-economy growth models. Employing a linear model the hysteresis range and the consequences for the long-run growth rate are determined analytically. The most important conclusions are the following: (1) An economy’s long-run position may depend critically on the initial intersectoral allocation pattern as well as on the efficiency of the resource reallocation sector; (2) if we interpret the resource reallocation sector as a specific part of the education sector, there is a straightforward possibility for the government to reduce the range of hysteresis and hence the dependence on initial conditions; (3) international trade is an important device to overcome the negative consequences of high resource reallocation costs for long-run growth.

Keywords: Sectoral change; economic growth; resource reallocation costs; hysteresis; multiplicity of equilibria (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N1 O0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 33 pages
Date: 2003-12
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