investment in infrastructure. …

priorities must be re-oriented towards potentially productive spending programmes. A simple economic growth model illustrates … that the current EU budget setting is, at best, neutral with respect to the EU-wide long-term growth potential and may … actually hamper growth in the majority of the EU countries if the distortionary nature of taxation is taken into account. …

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 …

only when the policy instrument is successful in smoothing the growth rate of human capital. …

Cross-country regressions suggest that urbanization and FDI are important drivers of growth. However, it is not clear … that primacy eventually hurts growth performance. Since it is tough to interpret cross-country growth regressions, we … growth and unbundling spatial lags matters. Robustness is verified by re-estimating our regressions with fixed effects and …

The paper investigates the impact of exchange rate volatility on growth in Emerging Europe and East Asia. Exchange … stability has been argued to affect growth negatively as it deprives countries from the ability to react in a flexible way to … stability can be argued to affect growth in emerging market economies positively because transaction costs for international …

The volatility of unanticipated output growth in income per capita is detrimental to long-run development, controlling … for initial income per capita, population growth, human capital, investment, openness and natural resource dependence … the black box and conditioning the variance of growth shocks on several country characteristics. Natural resource …

Investment in network infrastructure can boost long-term economic growth in OECD countries. Moreover, infrastructure … between infrastructure and economic growth. Time-series results reveal a positive impact of infrastructure investment on … infrastructure investment in telecommunications and the electricity sectors has a robust positive effect on long-term growth (but not …

We study the trade-off between equity and growth in the context of tax-financed investment in public capital. Taking … results are valid for both, the case of endogenous growth and the case of steady state convergence and do not require the …