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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 - Scholarly editions


Chapter 19 Market Power, Growth, and Unemployment

Scholarly edition · January 1, 2025 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 Cite

Endogenous Growth and Property Rights over Renewable Resources

Scholarly edition · 2015 We study how different regimes of access rights to renewable natural resources – namely open access versus full property rights – affect sustainability, growth and welfare in the context of modern endogenous growth theory. Resource exhaustion may occur und ... Cite

Growth on a Finite Planet: Resources, Technology and Population in the Long Run

Scholarly edition · June 30, 2011 We study the interactions between technological change, resource scarcity and population dynamics in a Schumpeterian model with endogenous fertility. There exists a pseudo-Malthusian equilibrium in which population is constant and income grows exponentiall ... Cite