This paper presents an analysis of the effect of bureaucratic corruption on economic growth through a public finance … seigniorage finance. This leads to an increase in inflation which, in turn, reduces capital accumulation and growth. At the …

In most monetary models of economic growth, higher long-run inflation is associated with a decline in the growth rate …. We consider three types of endogenous growth models: 1) the AK-model, 2) the Lucas (1990) supply-side model, and 3) the … inflation results in lower growth and employment in all three models, while, in the cash-credit good economy of Dotsey and …

Financial constraints are an important impediment to the growth of small businesses. We study theoretically and … decisions and growth of principals, in the context of franchising. We find that a 30 percent decrease in average … waiting time, and slows their growth by around 10 percent, leading to a 10 percent reduction in franchised chain employment. …

We investigate the relationship between unemployment and growth in China. We find considerable differences in the …

A central issue in the study of sustainable development is the interplay of growth and sacrifice in a dynamic economy … provides the limit to growth. Maximin value is interpreted as a dynamic environmental-economic carrying capacity and current …

We make use of a bootstrap panel analysis of causality between energy use and economic growth for a sample of sixteen … African countries over the period 1988-2010. Our results show that growth and energy use are strongly linked in Africa …. However, African countries are heterogeneous and there is no “one way” recommendation about energy-growth relationship that …