Since Bresnahan and Trajitenberg's original 1995 article on 'General Purpose Technology (GPT): Engines of Growth', the concept of GPT has slowly but steadily influenced the literature on business ICT (information and communication technology) adoption. In considering business ICT, within the...

What role can better quality of public finances play in supporting Europe's long-term economic growth prospects? This question was at the centre of the 2008 European Commission workshop on public finances. It was largely motivated by the pressures put on European economies and their budgets from...

This cumulative PhD thesis consists of three empirical essays about demographic and macroeconomic trends. They all investigate questions which are currently intensely debated in politics, economics and media. The first essay analyses how migration within the Euro area and across its borders...