Human Capital, Trade and Public Policy in Rapidly Growing Economies

Edited by Michele Boldrin, Washington University, St. Louis, US, Been-Lon Chen, Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan and Ping Wang, Washington University, St Louis, US

• Contents: Foreword 1. Introduction: A Quick Reference to Growth Theory Part I: Human Capital 2. Market Structure and Innovation Revisited: Endogenous Productivity, Training and Market Shares 3. Human Capital Formation and Patterns of Growth with Multiple Equilibria 4. On the Relationship Between Fertility and Public Education in Different Stages of Development 5. Productivity Growth and Catch-up in Less-developed Economies Part II: Trade 6. Total Factor Productivity and the Catching-up Process 7. Indeterminacy in a Dynamic General Equilibrium Model of International Trade 8. Evaluating the Quantitative Effects of Import Restrictions – An Almost Neoclassical Benchmark 9. Innovation in a Shrinking World Part III: Public Policy 10. Long-run Effects of Financial Policy in an Endogenously Growing Economy 11. Credit Rationing, Public Borrowing and Endogenous Growth 12. Government Expenditure and Social Status in a Two-sector Model of Endogenous Growth 13. Economic Growth and the Environmental Kuznets Curve in Taiwan: A Simultaneity Model Analysis Index