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Yu Zheng, City University of Hong Kong: Innovate to lead or innovate to prevail: when do monopolistic rents induce growth?

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光华讲坛——社会名流与企业家论坛第4793期

 

主 题 Innovate to lead or innovate to prevail: when do monopolistic rents induce growth?

主讲人 Yu Zheng, City University of Hong Kong

主持人365网址经济与管理研究院   楚天舒副教授

时 间20171215日(周五)下午2:00—3:30

地 点365网址柳林校颐德楼H503

主办单位:经济与管理研究院  科研处

 

主讲人简介:

Dr. Yu Zheng received her PhD (2011) degree in Economics from the Washington University in St. Louis. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics and Finance, City University of Hong Kong. Professor Zheng’s research areas include Macroeconomics, Development and Labor. Her works appear/under R&R in top/solid journals such as Macroeconomic Dynamics, Journal of Political Economy, American Economic Journal, Journal of Comparative Economics, Quantitative Economics, etc.

内容提要

This paper embeds in a Schumpeterian endogenous growth model a previously overlooked insight that the cost of innovation to the followers increases in their technological distance to the leader.This new assumption introduces an incentive for the leader to innovate to increase his technological distance from the followers, reducing the risk of being leapfrogged and thus prevailing in the leadership game.  In addition to the High Growth steady state in which only followers innovate as in Grossman and Helpman (1991), there now exist two other steady states: a Middle (a source) and a Low (a saddle) Growth steady state, that feature both leaders and followers innovating.With an initial condition of the economy that sees many industries having leaders prevailing – a situation characterized by low dynamism - the economy eventually converges to a Low Growth steady state. We illustrate in the model how an increase in monopolistic rents to the leaders, depending on the initial condition, can increase or reduce aggregate growth in the long run.


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