In this article, the recently published OECD-WTO TiVA data are used to re-examine the question of comparative advantage. Using the framework developed in Beaudreau (2011), it delves into the structural determinants of vertical, as opposed to horizontal, comparative advantage (VCA). In...

Despite their growing technical sophistication and empirical breadth, Granger energy-GDP causality tests remain inconclusive, leaving unresolved the increasingly relevant debate over the role of energy or energy growth in economic growth. While historians and growth theorists point to the...