An Empirical Test of Endogenous Growth Model for Egypt | ||||
| المجلة العلمية للدراسات التجارية والبيئية | ||||
| Article 31, Volume 15, Issue 1, January 2024, Page 335-358 PDF (488.18 K) | ||||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jces.2024.349496 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
| Rasha M. Elakkad* | ||||
| Assistant Professor of Economics, Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Endogenous growth models attribute long-run growth to the accumulation of capital, enhancing labor force and technological advances. The study applied the Cobb-Douglas production function offered by Romer's endogenous growth model in Egypt using data from the World Bank over the period 1990-2022. A long-term cointegration relation is confirmed between the dependent variable real GDP, which is considered as a proxy for economic growth, and the independent variables, total factor productivity as a proxy for stock of knowledge, Real Gross Capital Formation as a proxy for capital stock and years of schooling as a proxy for labor stock. Altogether, they explain 97% of variations in real GDP. The results reveal that a 1% increase in each of the stock of knowledge and technology, capital and labor leads to a 0.04, 0.44 and 0.80 increase in real GDP, respectively in Egypt over the study period.. Which coincides with the economic theory. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| endogenous growth; Cobb-Douglas production function; economic growth; knowledge and technology; capital; labor | ||||
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