Economic Integration and Endogenous Growth

Luis Rivera-Batiz and Paul Michael Romer ()

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1991, vol. 106, issue 2, pages 531-55

Abstract: In a world with two similar, developed economies, economic integration can cause a permanent increase in the worldwide rate of growth. Starting from a position of isolation, closer integration can be achieved by increasing trade in goods or by increasing flows of ideas. The authors consider two models with different specifications of the research and development sector that is the source of growth. Either form of integration can increase the long-run rate of growth if it encourages the worldwide exploitation of increasing returns to scale in the research and development sector. Copyright 1991, the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Date: 1991
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