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Explaining Economic Growth with Imperfect Credit Markets

By Luis Carranza

December 1, 2000

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Luis Carranza. Explaining Economic Growth with Imperfect Credit Markets, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2000) accessed November 21, 2024
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Summary

The purpose of this paper is to explain the humped-shaped behavior of the growth rate. Within a dynamic general equilibrium framework, it is found that, in the early stages of development, the source of growth is the reallocation of resources from sectors low-productivity sectors to high-productivity sectors (“extensive growth”), resulting in increasing growth rates. In the middle and mature stages of development, the source of growth is the higher average productivity achieved by the competition among entrepreneurs (“intensive growth”). As a result, the growth rate could be increasing in the middle stage and then displays a decreasing pattern during the mature stage.

Subject: Credit, Income, Income distribution, Labor, Money, National accounts, Production, Productivity, Self-employment

Keywords: Credit, Credit constraint, Credit restriction, Credit-constraint economy, Demand function, Economic growth, Economy experience, Growth, Income, Income distribution, Market imperfections, Productivity, Productivity shock, Self-employment, Wealth dynamics, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    29

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2000/193

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA1932000

  • ISBN:

    9781451859805

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941