The Marginal Product of Capital, Capital Flows, and Convergence

In the world of free capital mobility, theoretically capital flows from low-return to high-return locations. Capital inflows are presumably transformed to physical capital and increase output in the recipient countries. However, the literature led by Robert E Lucas (1990) has focused on the directio...

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Capital inflows
Capital investments
Capital mobility
Capital movement
Capital stock
Capital stocks
Consumption
Convergence
Cost control
Economic growth
ECONOMIC GROWTH AND OPEN-ECONOMY MACROECONOMICS
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Growth models
Households
Investment goods
Investments
Marginal products
Price volatility
Productivity
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