• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Learning by Doing, Overinvestment and the 'Erosion Effect' of R&D on Human Capital Accumulation
  • Contributor: Li, Shang-ao [Author]; Pan, Shan [Other]
  • Published: [S.l.]: SSRN, [2016]
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (12 p)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2776174
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  • Description: There is an “erosion effect” of R&D on human capital accumulation. This paper develops an economic growth model with endogenous technological progress and human capital accumulation, and emphasizes there are two characterizations in R&D process, which are that R&D process requires human capital investment and R&D of new technologies is obtained on the basis of learning by doing, and then we characterize the “erosion effect” which implies a negative externality of R&D in human capital accumulation. By comparing decentralized economy and centralized economy, we draw a conclusion that monopoly markup, overinvestment of physical capital and human capital interact with “erosion effect”, and would decrease human capital accumulation rate and economic growth rate
  • Access State: Open Access