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Economic Modelling

Economic Modelling. Lecture 7 Convergence and Divergence in the Global Economy. Meaning of Convergence and Divergence. A poor country should grow at faster rate than a rich country as it has higher marginal productivity of capital. . Evidence from African Countries shows divergence.

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Economic Modelling

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  1. Economic Modelling Lecture 7 Convergence and Divergence in the Global Economy

  2. Meaning of Convergence and Divergence A poor country should grow at faster rate than a rich country as it has higher marginal productivity of capital. Evidence from African Countries shows divergence.

  3. Two concepts of Economic Convergence Dispersion Measure: variance of growth rates should decline over time Mean Difference Reduction in the standard deviation over time Low income regions should grow faster than high income regions.

  4. Marginal productivity of Capital in Rich and Poor Countries and Capital Accumulation in Autarky MPKP MPKR rp rR KP KR

  5. Marginal productivity of Capital in Rich and Poor Countries and Capital Accumulation After Globalisation MPKP MPKR rP rp RG rR KP KR

  6. Marginal productivity of Labour in Rich and Poor Countries Before and After Globalisation MPLP MPLR wR wR’ LP LP’ LR LR’ Poor Country Rich Country

  7. Who Gain and Who Lose From Globalisation? Capitalists in rich countries and workers in poor countries gain. rp rR MPKR MPKP wR wp’ wR’ MPLR MPLP’ wp MPLR’ MPLP

  8. Factor Mobility and Convergence

  9. Factors Promoting Convergence • Domestic factors • Saving • Investment • Population growth rate • Human capital • Technology • Development of infrastructure • Sound economic policy • Homogenous and stable society • Transparent rules and regulations • Global factors • Trade of goods and services • Inflow and outflow of capital • Emigration or immigration of skilled and unskilled labour • Adoption of better technology • Growth of the global economy • Peace/Oil prices

  10. Autarky and Saving and Capital (Gartner (2003:262) has similar example)

  11. Impacts of Globalisation in Output and Income What is the capital stock in the steady state in A and B if there is a free mobility of capital?

  12. Evidence of Convergence Among OECD economies They rate growing at about the same rate

  13. Lack of Evidence of Convergence among Low Income Countries and Convergence among newly emerging economies: Average Annual Growth Rate of Per Capita Income (%) and Its level in 1960 Conditional Convergence

  14. Results from Cross Country Growth Studies -1 • A low initial level of income is associated with higher growth rate in subsequent periods when other variables are held constant. • Growth rates are higher when the ratio of investment to GDP is higher. • Growth rates are higher in countries which have larger stock of human capital per capita. • These are reflected in terms of enrolment in the primary and secondary schools. • Population growth rates are negatively associated with growth rates.

  15. Results from Cross Country Growth Studies -2 • Countries with distorted markets have lower growth rates. • Distortions occur in exchange rates and prices or by impediments to a free and fair trade. • Countries with efficient financial system have higher growth rates. • Size of the financial markets is measured as a ratio of liquid assets to the GDP. • Countries with political instability have lower growth rates. • Frequency of revolutions, wars and coups are used to measure political instability.

  16. Is this caused by the barriers to adopt a good technology? Or by Lauddites?

  17. References • Blanchard (13) • http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Economics/Growth/ • B&W 3 MS 5-6, BL 11,12 MK 7 • Baumol, W. J. (1986). Productivity growth, convergence and welfare: what the long-run data show. American Economic Review, 1072-1085. • Bernard, Andrew B. and Jones, Charles I. (1996). Technology and convergence. Economic Journal, 106, July, 1037-1044. • Barro, R. J. and Sala-i-Martin, X. (1992). Convergence. Journal of Political Economy, 100(2), 223-251. • Ben-David, Dan and Loewy, Michael B. (1998). Free trade, growth, and convergence. Journal of Economic Growth, 3(2), June, 143-170. • Keefer, Philip and Knack, Stephen (1997). Why don't poor countries catch up? A cross-national test of an institutional explanation. Economic Inquiry, 35(3), July, 590-602. • Lee, K., Pesaran, M. H. and Smith, R. (1997). Growth and convergence in a multi-country empirical stochastic Solow model. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 12, 357-392. • Parente Stephen L. (1994) Technology Adoption, Learning-by-Doing, and Economic Growth, Journal of Economic Theory, 63, pp. 346-369. • Quah, D. T. (1993). Empirical cross-section dynamics in economic growth, European Economic Review, 37, 426-434. • Slaughter, M. J. (1997). Per capita income convergence and the role of international trade. American Economic Review, 87(2), 194-204. • Whalley, J. (1985) Trade Liberalization Among Major World Trading Areas, MIT Press, Cambridge.

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