Non-convex Aggregate Technology and Optimal Economic Growth

Manh Hung Nguyen, Cuong Le Van () and Philippe Michel
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Cuong Le Van: CES - Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, PSE - Paris School of Economics - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - ENPC - École nationale des ponts et chaussées - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement

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Abstract: This paper examines a model of optimal growth where the aggregation of two separate well behaved and concave production technologies exhibits a basic non-convexity. First, we consider the case of strictly concave utility function: when the discount rate is either low enough or high enough, there will be one steady state equilibrium toward which the convergence of the optimal paths is monotone and asymptotic. When the discount rate is in some intermediate range, we find sufficient conditions for having either one equilibrium or multiple equilibria steady state. Depending to whether the initial capital per capita is located with respect to a critical value, the optimal paths converge to one single appropriate equilibrium steady state. This state might be a poverty trap with low per capita capital, which acts as the extinction state encountered in earlier studies focused on S-shapes production functions. Second, we consider the case of linear utility and provide sufficient conditions to have either unique or two steady states when the discount rate is in some intermediate range . In the latter case, we give conditions under which the above critical value might not exist, and the economy attains one steady state infinite time, then stays at the other steady state afterward.

Keywords: steady state; Non-convex agreggative technology; optimal economic growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-09
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Published in Economic Theory, 2009, 40, pp.457-471

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