O4 - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity

• Contraintes de liquidité et capital humain dans une petite économie ouverte

  Staff Working Paper 2004-13 Florian Pelgrin

  In an overlapping-generations model that represents a small open economy, where agents live two periods, liquidity constraints lead to low economic development when the only accumulable factor is human capital.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Economic models JEL Code(s): I, I2, I20, O, O4, O40

• The Effect of Adjustment Costs and Organizational Change on Productivity in Canada: Evidence from Aggregate Data

  Staff Working Paper 2004-1 Danny Leung

  A basic neoclassical model of production is often used to assess the contribution of investment to output growth. In the model, investment raises the capital stock and output growth increases in proportion to the growth in capital.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Productivity JEL Code(s): O, O3, O31, O4, O49