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1 Macroeconomics LECTURE SLIDES SET 5 Professor Antonio Ciccone Macroeconomics Set 5

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Macroeconomics. LECTURE SLIDES SET 5 Professor Antonio Ciccone. III. Economic Growth with Human Capital and Externalities. Outline. THE IMPORTANCE OF THE ROLE PLAYED BY CAPITAL IN PRODUCTION A SIMPLE MODEL OF ENDOGENOUS GROWTH EXTERNALITIES AND GROWTH HUMAN CAPITAL AND GROWTH. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Macroeconomics

LECTURE SLIDES SET 5

Professor Antonio Ciccone

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III. Economic Growth with Human Capital and

Externalities

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Outline

1. THE IMPORTANCE OF THE ROLE PLAYED BY CAPITAL IN PRODUCTION

2. A SIMPLE MODEL OF ENDOGENOUS GROWTH

3. EXTERNALITIES AND GROWTH

4. HUMAN CAPITAL AND GROWTH

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1. THE IMPORTANCE OF THE ROLE PLAYED BY CAPITAL IN PRODUCTION

Let us return to the Solow model

• Savings a constant fraction s of income• Depreciation rate of capital is

• Population growth n• Rate of echnological progress a

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PRODUCTION FUNCTION with DECREASING RETURNS TO CAPITAL

DECREASING RETURNS TO CAPITAL

CLOSE TO ZERO: STRONG DECREASING RETURNS

CLOSE TO UNITY: WEAK DECREASING RETURNS

1( , ) ( )F K L K AL

0 1

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COBB-DOUGLAS PRODUCTION FUNCTION

1( )Y K AL

1 1 1( )MPK K AL k

(1 )MPK K MPK k

K MPK k MPK

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k

MPK

STRONGDECREASING RETURNSTO CAPITAL

WEAKDECREASINGRETURNS

STRONG AND WEAK DECREASING RETURNS TO CAPITAL

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Effect of savings rate on BGP income/capital under STRONG and WEAK decreasing

returns to capital

11,BGP t

BGPt t

K sk

A L n a

,

,

11

BGP t

BGP t

K ss K

• STRONG DECREASING RETURNS TO CAPITALSmall BGP effects of savings rate

• WEAK DECREASING RETURNS TO CAPITAL Large BGP effects of savings rate

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BGPBGPs

y kn a

,

, 1BGP t

BGP t

Y ss Y

• STRONG DECREASING RETURNS TO CAPITALSmall BGP effects of savings rate

• WEAK DECREASING RETURNS TO CAPITAL Large BGP effects of savings rate

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How much of international income differences explained by

“propensity of countries to accumulate”?

Depends on strength of decreasing returns to capital

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Convergence to the BGP under WEAK and STRONG decreasing returns to capital

EQUILIBRIUM CAPITAL ACCUMULATION EQUATION

K sF(K , L) K

KK

sF(K , L)

K

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( )K t

( , )F K Ls

K

*K

t

t

KK

CONVERGENCE UNDER STRONG DECREASING RETURNS TO CAPITAL

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( )K t

( , )F K Ls

K

*K

t

t

KK

CONVERGENCE AND WEAK DECREASING RETURNS TO CAPITAL

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INCOME CONVERGENCE EQUATION (CLOSE to balanced growth path)

(1 )( )(ln * ln )tt

t

ya n a y y

y

(1 )( ) ln *

(1 )( ) ln

t

t

t

ya n a y

y

n a y

growth between and

(determinants of BGP income)

convergence parameter ln(initial income)

t t T

f

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Speed of convergence

• STRONG decreasing returns to capitalFAST convergence to BGP

• WEAK decreasing returns to capitalSLOW convergence to BGP

EMPIRICALLY, using cross-country data

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REMEMBER THAT IN THE SOLOW MODEL

Elasticity of output with respect to capital

= Capital income share

= 1/3 (empirically)

=STRONG DECREASING RETURNS: Fast convergence to BGP

Small BGP level effects of savings rate

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2. A SIMPLE MODEL OF ENDOGENOUS GROWTH

Return to the Solow model

• Savings a constant fraction s of income• Depreciation rate of capital is

• No population growth• No technological change

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BUT BUT BUT NO DECREASING RETURNS TO CAPITAL(!)

Y AK

MPK A constant

where A is a CONSTANT

which implies

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THIS PRODUCTION FUNCTION ALSO IMPLIES THAT

Elasticity of output with respect to capital

= Capital income share

• which is evidently in CONTRADICTION with empirical observation

• but let’s see where it leads us

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EQUILIBRIUM CAPITAL ACCUMULATION EQUATION

K sAK K

K sA K

-- if sA>, CAPITAL per WORKER and therefore OUTPUT per WORKER grow forever, even if there is NO TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS

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( )K t

Y AK KsAK

PERPETUAL CAPITAL ACCUMULATION WITHOUT TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE

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Is there a BALANCED GROWTH PATH?(path where all variables grow at constant rate)

tK sAK K

KsA

K

To growth rate of capital

From equilibrium accumulation equation

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To growth rate of output

Hence in this ENDOGENOUS GROWTH MODEL

1) long run growth in absence of technological progress

2) a higher savings rate means FASTER GROWTH IN the SHORT, MEDIUM, and LONG run

Y KsA

Y K

Y=AK

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Moreover,

- Implies that the growth rate of capital does NOT fall as economies accumulate capital

YY

sA

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( )K t

Y AKs s sA

K K

t t

t t

K YK Y

GROWTH RATE OF CAPITAL (AND OUTPUT) STAYSCONSTANT IN TIME

same macro fundamentals (s,A,), same growth rate, no matter what initial conditions !!

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MAIN RESULTS:

• perpetual accumulation-driven growth: capital accumulation alone can be the “engine of economic growth”

• savings rate has long-run growth effects: an increase in the savings rate increases the growth rate of capital and output forever

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Endogenous growth and convergence

The AK model has two interesting features:

(A) a poor economy will NOT achieve the income per capita of a rich economy even if has the same macro fundamentals

(B) holding deep parameters or macro fundamentals constant as economies become richer, growth does not slow down

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tK

Ys

K

t

t

KK

Endogenous growth model where GROWTH RATE OF CAPITAL FALLS IN TIME

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Endogenous growth and convergence

(A) a poor economy will NOT achieve the income per capita of a rich economy even if has the same macro fundamentals

(B) holding deep parameters or macro fundamentals constant as economies become richer, growth MAY STILL slow down

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The problem with the AK model?

• Capital share too large

• Back to the Solow model?

-- externalities

-- human capital

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3. EXTERNALITIES AND ENDOGENOUS GROWTH

In the Solow model we have• perfect competition• no externalities

As a result

which we said was around

YMPK r

K

( )" " CAPITAL INCOME SHARE

Y K r KK Y Y

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Why ?

Because the RESULTS of INVESTMENT are assumed to be

– EXCLUDABLE (only the INVESTOR benefits directly)

But sometimes investments by one particular firm yields results that are

– NON-EXCLUDABLE

– NON-RIVAL

CAPITAL INCOME SHAREY KK Y

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Rivalry and excludability

EXCLUDABLE? YES NO

YES --Banana for personal consumption --Truck for production

-- Crowded highway in Germany -- Sun light

RIVAL?

NO -- NON-crowded highway in Italy (for pay) -- PAY TV

--Car design --New form of organization for production

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What if investment has a non-rival, non excludable element?

PRIVATE

Yr

K

(SOCIAL)ECONOMY WIDE

Yr

K

1CAPITAL INCOME SHARE=

3Y KK Y

Externalities: real world has SLOWER convergence than Solow model, but not as slow as in endogenous growth model

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Non-excludability, non-rivalry in the Solow model?

• Technological progress!

• But fell from heaven; or to put it differently COMES WITH THE PASSAGE OF TIME, not with investment

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The Solow model with externalities

• Capital income share reflects the internal return to capital

• Elasticity of aggregate output wrt to capital reflects the social return to capital (private plus external return)

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Solow model with externalities

1( , ) ( )f f f fF K L K EL

where f is an index for firms: f=1,…,N

E Ak

where A grows at rate a; and there are positive externalities to aggregate capital accumulation if and only if > 0

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Solve:

• Optimal behavior of each firm (rental of capital and labor)

• Aggregate production as a function of aggregate inputs (capital and labor)

• Solow and non-Solow dynamics

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4. HUMAN CAPITAL AND ENDOGENOUS GROWTH

In the Solow model we have

• perfect competition

• no externalities

• only ONE TYPE OF CAPITAL: PHYSICAL CAPITAL

As a result

CAPITAL INCOME SHAREY KK Y

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But what about HUMAN CAPITAL?

What is human capital?

• knowledge in people that makes them more productive

In many ways similar to physical capital

• first INVEST (go to school; get some training) • then GET A RETURN (higher wage)

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1CAPITAL INCOME SHARE=

3Y BroadCapital

BroadCapital Y

Human capital (like capital externalities):

• real world has SLOWER convergence than Solow model, but not as slow as in endogenous growth model

• capital and savings explains more of international differences in income than in the Solow model

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Level and growth effects of HC

• Level effect of HC: more HC raises output (“neoclassical view of HC”)

• Growth effect: human capital may determine the rate of technological progress:

may affect growth rate in BGP

or have transitional growth effects only

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Growth effects of HC (A)

• Lucas, JME, 1988: human capital can produce output or “technology”:

,

, " ",

,

( )c t

c t LEARNINGc t c

c t

Aa h HC

A

increasing HC allocated to learning may therefore increase the BGP growth rate(the downside is that output is reduced in the short and medium run)

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“Growth” effects of HC (B)

Nelson and Phelps, AER, 1966

, ,,

,

( ) frontier t c tc t c

frontier t

A Aa h HC

A

, ,c t frontier ta a

,,

,

( ) 1 c tfrontier t c

frontier t

Aa h HC

A

1

( )frontierc

frontier c

aA

A h HC

BGP:

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Empirical work on link between human capital and growth

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The human capital “level” effect

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FROM ELASTICITIES to AGGREGATE RATES OF RETURNTO SCHOOLING

Much of the aggregate work estimates:

1% increase in average years of schoolingincome per capita growth(?)

Formally:increase y

yelasticity=

increase in SS

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Something that is easier to interpret intuitively would be:

1 YEAR increase in average years of schoolingincome per capita growth(?)

*

increase yy

Aggr. Return= Sincrease in S

S

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Elasticity Aggr. Return

0.1 1.25%

0.2 2.5%

0.3 3.75%

0.4 5%

0.5 6.25%

0.7 8.75%

1 12%

1.2 15%

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HUMAN CAPITAL QUALITY

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Human capital externalitiesMoretti, AER 2004

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Estimatingexternalities:

PLANT

INDUSTRY

CITY

-- does output IN THE PLANT(controlling for inputs in plant and industry)INCREASE with THE SHARE OF COLLEGE WORKERSoutside of INDUSTRY but inside CITY?

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Estimating equation:

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Data:

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Benchmark results:

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Physical capital externalities?

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