This paper extends the literature on economic growth and demographic change by developing a neo-classical model of endogenous growth in which both economic and demographic outcomes are jointly determined. The key point in this model is the endogenisation of child mortality rate by linking it to parents’ human capital, defined in a broad sense to include both education and health. The numerical ...

SRIYA IYER*, MICHAEL KITSON† and BERNARD TOH‡ *Faculty of Economics and St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 9DD, UK. Email: [email protected] †Judge Business School and St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1AG, UK. Email: [email protected] ‡Department of Economics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK. Email: bernard.toh@g...

This paper presents a simple model of human capital, ideas, and economic growth that integrates contributions from several different strands of the growth literature. The model generates a regression specification that is very similar to that employed by Mankiw, Romer and Weil (1992), but the economics underlying the specification is very different. In particular, the model emphasizes the impor...

The present study attempts to examine the casual relationship between foreign capital inflows and economic growth in India. Using the pair-wise Granger causality test (1969), this paper specifically examines casual relationship between foreign capital inflows and economic growth in India. The important observations emerge from pair-wise Granger causality test which shows there is the long-run e...

While economic deterrence models are fully based on maximizing economic utility; social psychology models explain human behavior by examining the underlying attitudes, norms and beliefs. Tax morale is defined as the intrinsic motivation to pay taxes. However, determinants of tax morale need to be investigated for a more comprehensive understanding of tax morale. In this paper we analyze the mos...

Economic growth is the most common goal in any economy, and capital is one of the most important determinants of growth. In the last few decades, the use of securities in various countries' capital markets has expanded and has become an essential part of the economic system supplying the capital need for investors and other institutions. This study aims to analyze the effect of securities used ...

Optimal decisions by economic agents regarding the utilization of capital lead to empirically plausible speeds of convergence in one-sector models of economic growth. The relationship between depreciation and capital utilization plays a crucial role in slowing down convergence to the steady state. Cross-country differences in the extent to which the capital utilization decision is internalized ...

Many argue that elements of a society’s norms, culture or social capital are central to understanding its development. However, these notions have been difficult to capture in economic models. Here we explore a possible role for ‘trustworthiness’ as corresponding to social capital. Individuals are trustworthy when they perform in accordance with promises, even if this does not maximize their pa...

People go to school and firms do R&D. These activities result in human capital accumulation and new ideas and technologies which make economies grow. We try to capture the interaction between human capital and R&D by allowing for endogenous human capital accumulation in an economy where the number of products and technologies expands because profit maximizing entrepreneurs do R&D. We find that,...