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 … provide detailed evidence on the determinants of outward FDI from the US. FDI is higher in countries that are close to the US …

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 …

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 …

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 analyze how the threat of a potential future regime shift affects optimal management. We use a simple general growth …

We explore the impact of large banks and of financial openness for aggregate growth. Large banks matter because of …-level do not cancel out in the aggregate but can affect macroeconomic outcomes. Financial openness may affect GDP growth in and …. Second, financial openness lowers GDP growth. Third, granular effects tend to be stronger in financially closed economies. …

We construct a tractable general equilibrium model of cumulative innovation and growth, in which new ideas strictly …