Decisions on investment allocation in the Post-Keynesian growth model
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Post-Keynesian growth model, structural change, multi-sector modelsAbstract
In this article the growth models of Feldman (1928) and Mahalanobis (1953) are extended to consider the analysis of decisions of investment allocation in the context of the Post-Keynesian Growth Model. By adopting this approach it is possible to introduce distributive features in the Feldman-Mahalanobis model that allows us to determine the rate of investment allocation according to the equilibrium decisions of investment and savings. Finally, an additional condition is added to the Post-Keynesian Growth Model in order to fully characterise the equilibrium path in an extended version of this framework, where capital goods are also needed to produce capital goods.
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