Consider a Baby Solow economy where TFP = 1, capital starts off at K0=1000, the savings rate is 50%, and the annual depreciation rate of capital is 10%. What is the steady-state capital stock? 

Robert Lucas, in “Econometric Policy Evaluation: A Critique,” contended that the best way to predict the effect of a tax cut on consumption was to look at the historical relationship between consumption and income. 

Consider an economy where all output (Y) is either consumer goods (C) or investment goods (I) . If income (Y) varies a lot from year to year, and people try to live according the permanent income hypothesis (PIH), which category of output will tend to be more volatile? 

According to GLS’s discussion of productivity accounting results, what’s the most important driver of GDP per capita differences across countries?  Cross-country differences in…

Which is surely true in the Augmented Solow Model’s steady state? 

If two theories both fit the same set of stylized facts, then those theories are observationally equivalent.  

Labor’s share of GDP in the U.S.

In the Solow model, faster productivity growth (e.g., higher z) tends to raise the steady-state rental rate of capital. 

Dietz’s read of the evidence in Fully Grown is that increased market power explains about half of the growth slowdown. 

Nation W has the same steady-state capital-output ratio as the modern United States. In Nation W, the savings rate is 15%, the annual depreciation rate is 1%, and productivity never grows (z=0%). What ‘s the annual population growth rate in Nation W?