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• TITLE: On the Closed-Form Solution to the Endogenous Growth Model with Habit Formation

  AUTHORS: Ryoji Hiraguchi

  KEYWORDS: Endogenous Growth; Closed-Form Solution; Habit Formation

  JOURNAL NAME: Theoretical Economics Letters, Vol.2 No.4, November 1, 2012

  ABSTRACT: We study the AK growth model with external habit formation. We show that there exists a unique solution path expressed in terms of the Gauss hypergeometric function. Using the closed-form solution, we also show that the optimal path converges to a balanced growth path.