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Entrepreneurship, or the activity of starting and running a business, is a vital ingredient of economic growth and … economic dynamism. In this paper, we contribute to the entrepreneurship literature by performing cross-sectional analysis to … examine the link between entrepreneurship and economic growth. We divide total early-stage entrepreneurship into opportunity …
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One commonly held view about the difference between continental European countries and other OECD economies, especially the United States, is that the heavy regulation of Europe reduces its growth. Using newly assembled data on regulation in several sectors of many OECD countries, we provide...
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development state in the economies, suggest that an analytical comparison would be a meaningful and valuable exercise. Furthermore …
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economies for a comparison between two regions which are at similar income levels. We document large differences between the two …
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economies for a comparison between two regions which are at similar income levels. We document large differences between the two …
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We explore the question of how political institutions and particularly democracy affect economic growth. Although empirical evidence of a positive effect of democracy on economic performance in the aggregate is weak, we provide evidence that democracy influences productivity growth in different...
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world productivity growth was led by fast-growing newly emerging economies, whereas most developed countries experienced a …
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Using international data starting 1957, we construct a sample of cases where fast-growing economies slow down. The evidence suggests that rapidly growing economies slow down significantly, in the sense that the growth rate downshifts by at least 2 percentage points when their per capita incomes...
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