Surveys the literature on the role of exports in economic growth and provides additional qualifications concerning the measurement of the different channels through which exports may contribute to economic growth. Our framework shows that the most commonly used supply-side approaches have...

Surveys the literature on the role of exports in economic growth and provides additional qualifications concerning the measurement of the different channels through which exports may contribute to economic growth. Our framework shows that the most commonly used supply‐side approaches have...

Purpose – This paper seeks to explore the factors behind the slow growth of economies with abundant oil and gas resources, despite the opportunities these resources potentially represent. Design/methodology/approach – The building blocks of standard economic growth models and the implication...

Purpose – The main aim of this paper is to examine the effect of economic growth on worker mobility and the effect of this mobility on income distribution. Design/methodology/approach – The paper develops an overlapping generation model with multiple categories of labor. In order to confirm...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to test the hypothesis that, given the financial development of an economy (whether developed or not), e-finance technologies enhance economic growth because they lower processing costs for suppliers and information costs for consumers and therefore...

Purpose – The main purpose of this paper is to visualize the relation between government spending on basic education and the human capital accumulation process, observing the impacts of this spending on individual investments in higher education, and on economic growth....

Purpose – This paper seeks to investigate the relation among corruption, institutional quality and economic growth. Design/methodology/approach – It expands the Erlich and Lui (JPE) endogenous growth model. From this model, institutional aspects such as judicial corruption, bureaucracy,...

Purpose – This study aims to examine dynamic interactions among economic growth, geography and the housing market with public goods financed by the government. A general dynamic equilibrium model of an isolated economy with economic geography, local public goods and capital accumulation is to...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the relationship between infrastructure and total factor productivity (TFP) in the four major Latin American economies: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico. Design/methodology/approach – The authors hypothesise that an increase in...