Quality and Interrelated Growth

Wilbur Coleman

No 206, 2016 Meeting Papers from Society for Economic Dynamics

Abstract: This paper develops a model in which a rapid expansion of the quality frontier by rich countries pushes poorer countries down the quality ladder and thereby leads to a widening dispersion of quality around the world as well as sluggish growth in poorer countries. This paper documents these features in the data, such as a recent rise in the dispersion of quality exported around the world between rich countries on the one hand and either poor countries or countries stuck in a middle-income trap on the other hand, as well as a widening dispersion of per-capita income among these groups.

Date: 2016
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dge
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://red-files-public.s3.amazonaws.com/meetpapers/2016/paper_206.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:red:sed016:206

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in 2016 Meeting Papers from Society for Economic Dynamics Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Christian Zimmermann ().