Endogenous growth,asymmetric trade and resource dependence |
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Authors: | Lucas Bretschger Simone Valente |
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Institution: | 1. ETH Zurich, Center of Economic Research, D-MTEC, 8032 Zurich, Switzerland;2. NTNU, Department of Economics, N-7491 Trondheim, Norway |
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Abstract: | The aggregate income of oil-exporting countries relative to that of oil-poor countries has been remarkably constant in recent decades, despite the existence of structural gaps in productivity growth rates. This stylized fact is rationalized in an endogenous growth model of asymmetric trade where resource-poor and resource-rich economies display productivity differences but stable income shares due to terms-of-trade dynamics. The model yields two testable predictions that deserve empirical scrutiny: (i) the asymmetric impact, between exporters and importers, of national taxes on resource use on income shares and (ii) the inverse relation between terms-of-trade dynamics and total factor productivity growth. |
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Keywords: | Endogenous growth Exhaustible resources International trade |
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