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Diffusion in a simple classical model. Micro decisions and macro outcomes

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  • Haas, David

    (University of Graz)

  • Rainer, Andreas

    (University of Graz)

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The paper explores how a single-sector economy reaches its long-period position if multiple methods of production are simultaneously in use. Firm decisions on investment and on technology provide the basis for two possible mechanisms of convergence: differential growth and imitation. Both mechanisms rely on the concept of extra profits and imply that during a period of disequilibrium economically superior methods of production gradually supersede inferior ones. The model reproduces the stylized fact of sigmoid diffusion curves and shows that diffusion leads to uneven growth with ambiguous long term effects, a change of income distribution and of the industry structure.

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  • Haas, David & Rainer, Andreas, 2014. "Diffusion in a simple classical model. Micro decisions and macro outcomes," Centro Sraffa Working Papers CSWP6, Centro di Ricerche e Documentazione "Piero Sraffa".
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    Keywords

    Sraffa; Schumpeter; classical economics; diffusion; replicator dynamics;
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    JEL classification:

    • E11 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General Aggregative Models - - - Marxian; Sraffian; Kaleckian
    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
    • O41 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models

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