to adopt liberal trading policies. The present paper extends this idea beyond the conventional trade openness measures by …

This article presents a methodology designed to facilitate alternative variables measuring economic growth. A capital …-labor split of Cobb-Douglas function is adapted for use in the context of economic growth. A capital/income ratio and two …

This article presents a methodology designed to facilitate alternative variables measuring economic growth. A capital …-labor split of Cobb-Douglas function is adapted for use in the context of economic growth. A capital/income ratio and two …

openness, higher productivity and lower inflation. Following a decline in transport cost openness increases and firm selection … dataset of macroeconomic variables for 107 countries from all world regions we are able to show that openness …-induced productivity growth leads to a significant decline in inflation world wide. …

development of commercial openness in each province. …

growth over the period 1981-2005. The econometric relationships derived in this paper suggest that future reductions in CO2 …

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 …

We analyze the interplay between longevity, pollution and growth. We develop an OLG model where longevity, pollution … and growth are endogenous. The authorities may provide two types of public services, public health and environmental … maintenance, that participate to increase agents' life expectancy and to sustain growth in the long term. We show that global …

international borrowing experience lower consumption growth volatility relative to output growth volatility. … uncertainty on capital inflows in such an economy generates long-term (expected) growth while the deterministic counterpart does … not. In this framework, long-term growth is entirely driven by precautionary savings. In particular, we show that the …