economic growth and points to the importance of tertiary education in the explanation of growth for developing countries. In … previous literature, our results show that, under broad and plausible model parameterizations, the marginal growth effect of …

This paper presents a New Economic Geography model of structural change, agglomeration and growth. By assuming the same … time. Second, the introduction of non-homotheticity introduces a new channel through which growth is affected by trade … costs and agglomeration. In particular, integration is always growth-enhancing while agglomeration is growth-detrimental. …

balanced growth path properties of this economy, and focus on the sensitiveness of its qualitative dynamic behaviour, according … to different subsets in the parameters space. The model is able to perform both endogenous growth and sustainability of …

We build a growth model in which tourism development generates pollution while tourists are pollution adverse. We … establish that long run positive growth exists only for a particular value of tourists pollution adversion. Furthermore, we show … that an intensive use of facilities is associated with a lower growth rate for destinations specialized in green tourism …

We develop a New Economic Geography and Growth model which, by using a CES utility function in the second … sufficiently good substitutes; 3) the regional rate of growth is affected by the interregional allocation of economic activities … even in the absence of localized spillovers, so that geography always matters for growth and 4) the regional rate of growth …

Until recently, the neoclassical growth theory and the neoclassical labour market theory have independently evolved … over time without communicating to each other. The neoclassical growth theory (Solow, 1956), born after the second world … problem of inflation, ignoring that one of growth. In this paper I present recent contributions suggesting that such a sharp …

We analyze the empirical relationship between growth, country size and tourism specialization by using a dataset …-groups considered in our analysis. Tourism appears to be an independent determining factor for growth, and the reason for that is … in the literature, smallness per se is not good for growth. …

information and communication technology (ICT) on output growth. Following Yorukoglu’s (1998) vintage capital idea, in which ICT … doing effects. In terms of growth contribution we find that ICT have an impact disproportionately wide compared to the share …

Sardinia and hence, its economic growth. …