Vintage Capital Growth Theory: Three Breakthroughs
Raouf Boucekkine,
David de la Croix and
Omar Licandro (licandro.omar@gmail.com)
No 565, Working Papers from Barcelona School of Economics
Abstract:
Vintage capital growth models have been at the heart of growth theory in the 60s. This research line collapsed in the late 60s with the so-called embodiment controversy and the technical sophistication of the vintage models. This paper analyzes the astonishing revival of this literature in the 90s. In particular, it out- lines three methodological breakthroughs explaining this resurgence: a growth accounting revolution, taking advantage of the availability of new time series, an optimal control revolution allowing to safely study vintage capital optimal growth models, and a vintage human capital revolution, along with the rise of economic demography, accounting for the vintage structure of human capital similarly to physical capital age structuring. The related literature is surveyed.
Keywords: Vintage capital; embodied technical progress; growth accounting; optimal control; endogenous growth; vintage human capital; demography (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C61 D63 D64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-06
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