There has been a revival of interest in the effect of risk on economic growth. We quantify both ex ante and ex post … remarkable long-running panel data set for rural households in Zimbabwe. We find that risk substantially reduces growth: in the …, the first micro-based estimate of the effect of shocks on growth. About two-thirds of the impact of risk is due to the ex …

We analyze how the threat of a potential future regime shift affects optimal management. We use a simple general growth …

firm growth, survival, size and age. While these studies have resulted in findings that are sufficiently consistent as to … relationships between firm age and size on the one hand, and survival and growth on the other may, in fact, not be the same in … services. The results suggest that the most fundamental relationships between firm size, age, survival and growth are …

This paper puts forward a method to estimate average economic growth, and its associated confidence bounds, which does …

Growth in the Millennium</I>, 2005, Resources for the Future, Washington DC, 177-97.<P> …

external capital and have greater growth opportunities. Also, higher accountability and lower income inequality are associated …

, and (iii) productivity and growth, relative to the contributions of the entrepreneurs’ counterparts, i.e., the ‘control … very important—but specific—function in the economy. They engender relatively much employment creation, productivity growth … studies show that entrepreneurial firms produce important spillovers that affect regional employment growth rates of all …

achieving high output growth. It is argued that due to the forward looking nature of the foreign exchange market, exchange rate …