relative Prices and Uneven Growth

J.D. Pitchford

Working Papers from Australian National University - Department of Economics

Abstract: Baumol has argued that the problem experienced by cities in providing metropolitan services might be the product of an uneven growth process. Slow growth sectors, he argues, could experience increased real costs and, unless demand for their services is highly inelastic, their outputs coudl decline severely. The present paper looks at these issues in a framework which allows explicity both for demand, for examination of the sources of productivity growth and for substitution between productive factors.

Keywords: CITIES; PRODUCTIVITY; DEMAND; ECONOMIC GROWTH (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D24 O18 O40 O47 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 15 pages
Date: 1996
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