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Evidence and Strategy on Economic Distance in Spatially Augmented Solow-Swan Growth Model

Lee, Jieun

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Title
Evidence and Strategy on Economic Distance in Spatially Augmented Solow-Swan Growth Model
Author(s)
Lee, Jieun
Issue Date
2022-09-02
Keyword(s)
Spatially augmented Solow-Swan growth model, endogenous spatial weights matrices, economic distance, geographic distance, physical capital externalities, technological interdependence, spatial externalities.
Abstract
Economists’ interests in growth theory have a very long history (Harrod, 1939; Domar, 1946; Solow, 1956; Swan 1956; Mankiw, Romer, and Weil, 1992). Recently, starting from the neoclassical growth model, Ertur and Koch (2007) developed the spatially augmented Solow-Swan growth model with the exogenous spatial weights matrices (W). While the exogenous W assumption could be true only with the geographical/physical distance, it may not be true when economic/social distances play a role. Using Penn World Table version 7.1, which covers year 1960-2010, I conducted the robust Rao’s score test (Bera, Dogan, and Taspinar, 2018) to determine if W is endogeonus and used the maximum likelihood estimation (Qu and Lee, 2015). The key finding is that the significance and positive effects of physical capital externalities and spatial externalities (technological interdependence) in Ertur and Koch (2007) were no longer found with the exogenous W, but still they were with the endogenous W models. I also found an empirical strategy on which economic distance to use when the data recently has been under heavy shocks of the worldwide financial crises during year 1996-2010.
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Working paper
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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/114460

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