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Structural Transformations with Long-Run Price and Income Effects. Diego Comin, February 10, 2015, Paper. "We present a multi-sector model of growth that accommodates long-run real income effects and sectoral price trends. Consistent with post-war data from OECD countries, our model generates constant aggregate growth rates, constant interest rates and non-constant sectoral expenditure shares (non-homothetic Engel curves). Our model is…
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IdeasLab 2013 - Diego Comin - Mapping Patterns of technological Adoption Across Countries. Diego Comin, 2013, Video. "Ideaslab 2013 - World Economic Forum-- Harvard University economist Diego Comin explains why he has spent the past 10 years gathering big data from across 150 countries over two centuries, and what his research about technology diffusion can tell us about the gap between rich and poor countries..."…
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When Does Domestic Saving Matter for Economic Growth? Philippe Aghion and Diego Comin, January 4, 2009, Paper. "Can a country grow faster by saving more? We address this question both theoretically and empirically. In our theoretical model, growth results from innovations that allow local sectors to catch up with frontier technology. In poor countries, catching up requires the cooperation of a foreign investor who is familiar with the frontier…