1. Introduction: Creative mental labour and skilled mental labor -- 2. The Missing Component in Long-term Growth Theory -- 3. Long-term economic growth -- 4. Productivity increase and economic growth -- 5. Productivity increase (growth) in the service sector -- 6. Firms that “only produce...

Cross-predictability denotes the fact that some assets can predict other assets' returns. I propose a novel performance-based measure that disentangles the economic value of cross-predictability into two components: the predictive power of one asset's signal for other assets' returns...

This paper addresses inequalities in the economic growth of municipalities in Pernambuco, one of the states in Northeast Brazilian most vulnerable to climate change. The study uses longitudinal data from the 2010s to identify economic convergence clubs. This paper estimates the role of...