Reconsidering the Market Size Effect in Innovation and Growth

Kiminori Matsuyama and Hélène Latzer
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Mathieu Parenti ()

No 14250, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: In the standard horizontal innovation model of endogenous growth, larger economies innovate more and grow faster. Due to the homotheticity of preferences, however, it does not matter whether the large market size comes from a large population or a high per capita expenditure. In this paper, we extend the standard model to allow for nonhomothetic preferences. Among others, we show that, holding the size fixed, economies with higher per capita expenditure and smaller populations innovate more and grow faster for the empirically relevant case of incomplete pass-through, strategic complementarity in pricing, and procompetitive entry.

Keywords: Endogenous growth; Balanced growth; Horizontal innovation; Nonhomothetic preferences; Directly explicitly additive (dea) preferences; Demand composition; Incomplete pass-through; Strategic complementarity in pricing; Procompetitive entry; Competition and growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O11 O31 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-12
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