Creator

• Parente, Stephen L.
• Prescott, Edward C.

Series

• Staff report (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Research Department)

Issue number

• 136

Date created

• 1991-02

Abstract

• Technology change is modeled as the result of decisions of individuals and groups of individuals to adopt more advanced technologies. The structure is calibrated to the U.S. and postwar Japan growth experiences. Using this calibrated structure we explore how large the disparity in the effective tax rates on the returns to adopting technologies must be to account for the huge observed disparity in per capita income across countries. We find that this disparity is not implausibly large.

Related information

• Published in: Journal of Political Economy (Vol. 102, No. 2, 1994, pp. 298-321) https://doi.org/10.1086/261933.

Corporate Author

• Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Research Department

Publisher

• Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Resource type

• Research Paper

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.21034/sr.136

License

• Creative Commons BY-NC Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

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• Staff Reports

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