This paper examines whether growth regressions should incorporate dualism and structural change. If there is a … factor productivity. The paper develops empirical growth models that allow for this effect in a more flexible way than … labour can explain a significant fraction of the international variation in TFP growth. …

This paper examines the relationship between financial development, CO2 emissions, trade and economic growth using … is evidence of bidirectional causality between CO2 emissions and economic growth. Economic growth and trade openness are … financial development to economic growth and from trade openness to CO2 emissions is identified. Our empirical results also …

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 …

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 …

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