from 29 to 31 March 2012. The workshop focused on the interaction between fiscal policy and growth and was organised in … relationship between government budgets and potential growth. The third session analysed the effects of taxation, regulation and … public services on growth. The last session concentrated on policies aimed at promoting sustainable growth. …

sector. Firm-level evidence shows that the growth in graduate employment is due almost entirely to a �within� firm … productivity growth. This suggests that increasing the workforce�s level of educational attainment is crucial to overcome the …

What is the relationship between real exchange rate misalignments and economic growth? And what effect, if any, did … undervaluations or overvaluations of the lira/euro have on Italy's growth? We address these questions by presenting, first, three main … facts: (i) there is a positive relationship between undervaluation and growth; (ii) this relationship is strong for …

differences. We then study the relationship between productivity growth at the sectoral level and size structure. We find a … positive and robust association between average firm size and growth. Asking why size should matter for growth, we consider the … role of innovative activity, to construct a test based on the differential effect of size on growth according to various …

growth performance directly or indirectly through the above exogenous shocks. The focus, mostly but not exclusively … economic growth. …

This paper presents an endogenous growth model with intertemporally dependent preferences and "Ak" technology. We … derive sufficient conditions for a balanced growth path to be an equilibrium, provide a full characterization of the … equilibrium dynamics of the economy, and explore the implications of habit formation for the patterns of cross-country growth and …

This paper studies the correlation between inequality, measured by the Gini coefficent of incomes, and the growth rate … of per capita GDP in a panel of countries between the late 1950s and late 1990s. Inequality Granger causes growth with a … negative coefficient, while growth Granger causes inequality with a positive sign. Quantitatively, the former effect appears …

We examine the growth performance of six emerging economies (Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Russia and Turkey) in the … last two decades and examine whether domestic structural constraints are affecting their present and future growth … structural factors will weigh on potential growth, particularly the evolution of the size and quality of the labor force. …

results indicate that lower service regulation translates into faster value added, productivity, and export growth of … downstream service-intensive industries. The negative growth-effect of anti-competitive regulation is particularly relevant in …