The past and future of economic growth: A semi-endogenous perspective

CI Jones - Annual Review of Economics, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The nonrivalry of ideas gives rise to increasing returns, a fact celebrated in Paul Romer's
recent Nobel Prize. An implication is that the long-run rate of economic growth is the product …

The Schumpeterian growth paradigm

P Aghion, U Akcigit, P Howitt - Annual Review of Economics, 2015 - annualreviews.org
In this review, we argue that the Schumpeterian growth paradigm, which models growth as
resulting from innovations involving creative destruction, sheds light on several aspects of …

Are ideas getting harder to find?

N Bloom, CI Jones, J Van Reenen… - American Economic …, 2020 - aeaweb.org
Long-run growth in many models is the product of two terms: the effective number of
researchers and their research productivity. We present evidence from various industries …

Green energy transition and sustainable development of energy firms: An assessment of renewable energy policy

D Zhang, Q Kong - Energy Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
The development of green energy is an important tool to balance economic growth and
environmental protection. Using 27,043 data observations from A-share listed companies on …

The political economics of green transitions

T Besley, T Persson - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases may be almost impossible without a green
transition—a substantial transformation of consumption and production patterns. To study …

A theory of falling growth and rising rents

P Aghion, A Bergeaud, T Boppart… - Review of Economic …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Growth has fallen in the US amid a rise in firm concentration. Market share has shifted to low
labour share firms, while within-firm labour shares have actually risen. We propose a theory …

Market power and innovation in the intangible economy

M De Ridder - American Economic Review, 2024 - aeaweb.org
This paper offers a unified explanation for the slowdown of productivity growth, the decline in
business dynamism, and the rise of market power. Using a quantitative framework, I show …

Innovation and top income inequality

P Aghion, U Akcigit, A Bergeaud… - The Review of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
In this article, we use cross-state panel and cross-US commuting-zone data to look at the
relationship between innovation, top income inequality and social mobility. We find positive …

Technological innovation, resource allocation, and growth

L Kogan, D Papanikolaou, A Seru… - The quarterly journal of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We propose a new measure of the economic importance of each innovation. Our measure
uses newly collected data on patents issued to US firms in the 1926 to 2010 period …

Low interest rates, market power, and productivity growth

E Liu, A Mian, A Sufi - Econometrica, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This study provides a new theoretical result that a decline in the long‐term interest rate can
trigger a stronger investment response by market leaders relative to market followers …