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Big Push in Distorted Economices
Francisco Javier Buera
Hugo Andrés Hopenhayn
Yongseok Shin
Nicholas Trachter
出版
National Bureau of Economic Research
, 2021
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=OqNjzgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Why don't poor countries adopt more productive technologies? Is there a role for policies that coordinate technology adoption? To answer these questions, we develop a quantitative model that features complementarity in firms' technology adoption decisions: The gains from adoption are larger when more firms adopt. When this complementarity is strong, multiple equilibria and hence coordination failures are possible. More important, even without equilibrium multiplicity, the model elements responsible for the complementarity can substantially amplify the effect of distortions and policies. In what we call the Big Push region, the impact of idiosyncratic distortions is over three times larger than in models without such complementarity. This amplification enables our model to nearly fully account for the income gap between India and the US without coordination failures playing a role.