and short-term planning horizon can also lead to such underinvestment. Subsequently, banks can stimulate growth …

We revisit the relationship between financial development and economic growth in a panel of 52 middle income countries … financial development does not have a linear positive long-run impact on economic growth in this sample. When we consider a non …-linear relationship between financial development and growth, we find an inverted U-shaped relationship between finance and growth in the …

We investigate country heterogeneity in cross-country growth regressions. In contrast to the previous literature that … focuses on low-income countries, this study also highlights growth determinants in high-income (OECD) countries. We introduce … inherent in growth regressions. IBMA is essential to our estimation because the simultaneous consideration of model uncertainty …

economic reform, economic growth and, with a delay, on investment and institutional change. Episode of high inflation, moreover …

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 …

After a decade of research on the relationship between institutions and growth, scholars in this field seem to be … divided. Economic institutions perform well in growth regressions and a body of literature argues that this supports the key … literature describes are the more stable political institutions, and these have been found to play no role in empirical growth …

While various empirical studies have found negative growth-effects of natural disasters, little is yet known about the … microeconomic channels through which disasters might affect short- and especially long-term growth. This paper contributes to …

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 …

We discuss the sustainability of Chinese high growth relative to growth experience elsewhere, and specifically Soviet … Russia in the 1950s to the 1960s by asking if the aggregate technology can eventually similarly constrain high growth … that the substitution elasticity is greater than one. We then discuss how sub aggregate high growth can occur when there …

Existing growth research provides little explanation for the very large differences in long-run growth performance … across OECD countries. We show that cognitive skills can account for growth differences within the OECD, whereas a range of … economic institutions and quantitative measures of tertiary education cannot. Under the growth model estimates and plausible …