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 … conclusions in the literature, smallness per se is not good for growth. …

With the rise of the knowledge economy, delivering sound innovation policies requires a thorough understanding of how … Global Innovation Networks (GINs), to shed light on how the protection of intellectual property rights (IPRs) influences … important determinant of participation in GINS from a Southern perspective. We find IPR protection at home and its harmonization …

on innovation activities. In addition, we find that price-based policy instruments are more effective in fostering …

energy R&D expenditures. Technological innovation is measured using patent counts for specific technologies related to energy …

diffuses spatially across locations. The result is an endogenous growth theory that can shed light on the link between the …

between political stability and economic growth which is stronger and empirically more robust in countries with high … bureaucratic costs. Motivated by these results, which contrast with previous contributions, we develop a model of growth with … defend their monopoly position and prevent innovation and entry of high-quality competitors. This requires that the incumbent …

This paper investigates the connection between resource abundance and innovation, as a transmission mechanism that can … elucidate part of the resource curse hypothesis; i.e. the observed negative impact of resource wealth on income growth. We … develop a variation of the Ramsey-Cass-Koopmans model with endogenous growth to explain the phenomenon. In this model …

dynamics of growth rates and terms of trade when the industry-based economy is the innovation leader, while the tourism …This paper extends the ’expanding-varieties’ growth model in a two-countries-two-goods setup, and describes the … standard result, technological catching-up by the follower is associated with lower growth rates with respect to the leader …