Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Vol. 23, No. 1, THE SOLOW GROWTH MODEL (SPRING 2007), pp. 94-114 (21 pages) In this paper, we seek to re-establish the link between the constant elasticity of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract It is often asserted that the more substitutable capital and labor are in the aggregate production the more rapidly an economy grows. Recently ...

We estimate the upper-level elasticity of substitution between goods and services of a nested aggregate CES preference specification. We show how this elasticity can be derived from the long-run ...

Empirical evidence indicates that the elasticity of capital-labor substitution for the aggregate U.S. economy is below unity. In contrast, the existing indeterminacy literature has mostly restricted ...

Arguments about the appropriate discount rate often start by assuming a Utilitarian social welfare function with isoelastic utility, in which the consumption discount rate is a function of the ...