fiscal policy, government effectiveness and productivity. Here, their dataset is extended in a number of ways: the number of … countries included is increased from 85 to up to 116, and more recent data for both government effectiveness and productivity …

This paper assesses the relationship between institutions, output, and productivity, when official output is corrected … output and total factor productivity, and its negative impact on the size of the underground economy. However, once output is … total ("corrected") factor productivity even becomes insignificant. Differences in corrected output must then be attributed …

factor productivity. The paper develops empirical growth models that allow for this effect in a more flexible way than …

things equal. Increased participation in higher education enhances productivity progress and is accompanied by rising wage …

in knowledge spillovers. Drawing on the NBER Patent Citations Database, we examine patent citations data at metropolitan … of cited patent, which implies that new knowledge faces the largest barriers to diffusion. However, over time, border and … sources of overestimated aggregate border effects of knowledge spillovers. While self-citations are only 11% of total …