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Pietro F. Peretto

Professor of Economics
Economics
Box 90097, Durham, NC 27708-0097
241 Social Sciences, Box 90097, Durham, NC 27708

Scholarly Works - Book sections


Market Power, Unemployment, and Growth

Book section · 2012 I present a model where firms and workers set wages above the market-clearing level. Unemployment is thus generated by their exercise of market power. Because both the labor and product markets are imperfectly competitive, market power in the labor market ... Full text Link to item Cite

Variety, Spillovers and Market Structure in a Model of Endogenous Technological Change

Book section · 1998 Growth theorists have produced a number of interesting models investigating the idea that technological progress, the engine of growth in income per capita, is endogenous to the economic system and driven by market forces. These models are radically differ ... Full text Link to item Cite