On the invariance of the rate of return to convex adjustment costs:

The Modified Golden Rule, which relates the rate of return on capital and the growth rate of the capital stock along long-run growth paths that maximize the utility of a representative infinitely-lived consumer, is invariant to the introduction of convex capital adjustment costs. Therefore, along ba...

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Beteilige Person: Abel, Andrew B. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, MA National Bureau of Economic Research 2001
Schriftenreihe:NBER working paper series 8649
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Links:http://papers.nber.org/papers/w8649.pdf
Zusammenfassung:The Modified Golden Rule, which relates the rate of return on capital and the growth rate of the capital stock along long-run growth paths that maximize the utility of a representative infinitely-lived consumer, is invariant to the introduction of convex capital adjustment costs. Therefore, along balanced growth paths in neoclassical optimal growth models with an exogenous long-run growth rate of capital, the rate of return is invariant to the introduction of convex adjustment costs, though the capital-labor ratio is reduced along such paths. In AK models, convex adjustment costs reduce the growth rate and rate of return on capital.
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