Scale Effects in Schumpeterian Models of Economic Growth
Posted: 14 Aug 1999
Abstract
Early models of Schumpeterian growth incorporate scale effects predicting that large economies grow faster than small economies, and that population growth causes accelerating per capita income growth. An absence of clear empirical evidence for these scale effects has led some researchers to question the foundations underlying the Schumpeterian approach to growth. This paper reviews empirical evidence on the relationship between scale and growth, and recent attempts to construct Schumpeterian growth models without scale effects.
JEL Classification: O2, O3
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Dinopoulos, Elias and Thompson, Peter, Scale Effects in Schumpeterian Models of Economic Growth. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=164816
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