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Las leyes del desarrollo económico endógeno de Kaldor: el caso colombiano

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  • Álvaro Martín Moreno Rivas

    (Universidad Externado de Colombia)

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This article exposes the conceptual and theoretical foundations of Kaldor’s laws. The results of empirical exercises suggest that in the Colombian industry there are no increasing returns to scale when departmental information is used, at least for the period 1981-2004.

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  • Álvaro Martín Moreno Rivas, 2008. "Las leyes del desarrollo económico endógeno de Kaldor: el caso colombiano," Revista de Economía Institucional, Universidad Externado de Colombia - Facultad de Economía, vol. 10(18), pages 129-147, January-J.
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    Keywords

    Kaldor’s laws; causation to circulate accumulative; increasing dynamics returns; economies of scale; Colombia;
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    JEL classification:

    • D20 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - General
    • O11 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development

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