Rethinking the Concept of Long-Run Economic Growth

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Rethinking the Concept of Long-Run Economic Growth

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Christian Groth (Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen)
Karl-Josef Koch (Siegen University)
Thomas M. Steger (ETH Zürich)

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This paper argues that growth theory needs a more general “regularity” concept than that of exponential growth. This opens up for considering a richer set of parameter combinations than in standard growth models. Allowing zero population growth in the Jones (1995) model serves as our illustration of the usefulness of a general concept of “regular growth”.

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Paper provided by University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics in its series Discussion Papers with number 06-06.

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- Christian Groth & Karl-Josef Koch & Thomas Steger, 2006. "Rethinking the Concept of Long-Run Economic Growth," CESifo Working Paper Series CESifo Working Paper No. , CESifo Group Munich. [Downloadable!]

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