= 0.1), 2. Suppose that the depreciation rate is 10 percent per year (8 = el tsda boinoq Tag O< sti edd Ja awong etohow that the savings rate is 25 percent (o = 0.25), and that the production xi ei baal to tos sdT olderota ton at suguo bas leiqsa leoievilo on ai function is of the Cobb-Douglas form, that is, Y; = AK¢L;-ª, where 7admn baxd s ai Toedw a boirsq lls 1ol T T,ai Jedlt omit o Yt, Kt, and Lt denote, respectively, output, the stock of capital, and %3D odT3(n+1): %3D 1970 population in period t, and a and A are constant parameters. Assume that a = 0.3. Let y* and y denote the steady-state output per capita %3D oirog doo ow oguqo bail S. associated withn and n', respectively. Calculate the percentage in- i crease in long-run output per capita caused by a permanent fall in the population growth rate from n to n', that is, calculate (y*/y*-1) × 100.
= 0.1), 2. Suppose that the depreciation rate is 10 percent per year (8 = el tsda boinoq Tag O< sti edd Ja awong etohow that the savings rate is 25 percent (o = 0.25), and that the production xi ei baal to tos sdT olderota ton at suguo bas leiqsa leoievilo on ai function is of the Cobb-Douglas form, that is, Y; = AK¢L;-ª, where 7admn baxd s ai Toedw a boirsq lls 1ol T T,ai Jedlt omit o Yt, Kt, and Lt denote, respectively, output, the stock of capital, and %3D odT3(n+1): %3D 1970 population in period t, and a and A are constant parameters. Assume that a = 0.3. Let y* and y denote the steady-state output per capita %3D oirog doo ow oguqo bail S. associated withn and n', respectively. Calculate the percentage in- i crease in long-run output per capita caused by a permanent fall in the population growth rate from n to n', that is, calculate (y*/y*-1) × 100.
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Transcribed Image Text:Intermediate Macroeconomics, Chapter 4 nel,
127
4.4 Exercisessbi
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Yei ted loo-ddo i noonu noitouh ng
Exercise 4.1 (The U.S. Population Slowdown and Income Per Capita).
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U.S. Population in Selected Years
o bns boirsq ai
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Year
ToMood o (n or
1870
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1871
Population in millions
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40.24
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41.10
S c 2015
abon hec
321.08
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323.30
2016
V ent por yo
lssa Jobom
the
al output
1. Using the information provided in the table, calculate the population
bojon growth rate between 1870 and 1871 and between 2015 and 2016. Denote
these two numbers n and n', respectively.sTbalonab bast bas
lo Todmun odt tadd osogqueI>o > 0 dtiw T = (.T) s9
0.1),
2. Suppose that the depreciation rate is 10 percent per year (8 =
0odT (n+I)=14.e adt boinoq roq 0<od odd Ja awong atlhow
that the savings rate is 25 percent (o = 0.25), and that the production
boxit ai basl lo tmuos sdT .olderota ton at dugdro bas letiqsa leievilo on ai
function is of the Cobb-Douglas form, that is, Y = AK L-a, where
19dmn baxt s ai T oodw boirsq lle 1ol T-T,ai terld omit vo
Yt, Kt, and Lt denote, respectively, output, the stock of capital, and
population in period t, and a and A are constant parameters. Assume
0.3. Let y* and y* denote the steady-state output per capita
boirog daso how teg juquo ba
that a =
associated withn and n', respectively. Calculate the percentage in-
oVili crease in long-run output per capita caused by a permanent fall in the
population growth rate from n to n', that is, calculate (y*/y* -1) × 100.
3. Provide intuition.
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