Die Griechenland-Krise gibt Anlass, den grundsätzlichen Zusammenhang zwischen Staatsschulden, Zinsen und Wachstum zu untersuchen. Anhand dieser Schuldenmechanik wird deutlich, dass ein hohes nominales Wachstum bei niedrigen Zinsen die sogenannten PIGS-Länder zu Beginn der Währungsunion in...

Openness appears to have a strong impact on economic growth especially in DCs, which typically exhibit a high share of physical capital in factor income and a low share of labor. In the neoclassical growth model with partial capital mobility, physical capital?s share in factor income determines...

In this paper, we perform a Tobit analysis of aid allocations, covering the period 1999-2002 and accounting for both altruistic and selfish donor motives. We first compare the allocative behavior of all bilateral donors taken together with that of multilateral aid agencies, and then look at nine...