This paper develops and applies a simple “conditional growth” framework to make long-term GDP projections for the world … market and pension reforms on future growth in employment levels. In the baseline projection, world GDP would grow in PPP … factor productivity and population growth assumptions is significant, however, and compounds with deeper sources of …

Based on an endogenous growth model, we show that intermediate goods markets imperfections can curb incentives to … improve productivity downstream. We confirm such prediction by estimating a model of multifactor productivity growth in which … anticompetitive upstream regulations have curbed MFP growth over the past 15 years, more strongly so for observations that are close …

studies- is that makes it possible to look at industrial specialization in terms of value added instead of gross exports …

Norwegian growth has been strong over the past decade. This development has been supported by the off-shore sector, but … depleting oil reserves implies that growth will have to rely increasingly on the mainland economy. Empirical work shows that … competition is important for promoting economic growth. Recognising the benefits of competition, the government wants to introduce …

Maintaining rapid economic growth depends increasingly on productivity gains, particularly in the service sector …

Following the deep recession in the early 1990s growth has been strong, but the scope for economic catch-up remains …. Structural reforms to strengthen competition in the early 1990s did boost growth and were also ahead of similar developments in …