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 …

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 …

We study the relation between the off-shoring of intermediates and services and productivity growth in the Italian … off-shoring”) is beneficial for productivity growth, while the off-shoring of services is not. We also find that the way … productivity growth is there with our direct measures based on input-output data but disappears when either a broad measure or the …

retard economic growth, even to the point of leading to an economic collapse. Premature adult mortality may exacerbate …