Mainstream economic research regards private debt as a determinant of GDP growth in the longrun. Levine (2005) surveys … focus from the long to the short-run and study whether private debt has a significant impact on GDP growth in the short …

Economic research has considered Private Debt a determinant of GDP growth for years. By keeping this perspective, the … objective of this work is to understand how much of the GDP response to a monetary shock is due to the variation of private debt …

We construct the world’s centers of gravity for human population, GDP and CO2 emissions by taking the best out of five … of gravity, we find a radical Western shift of GDP and CO2 emissions centers in the 19th century, in sharp contrast with … the stability of the demographic center of gravity. Both GDP and emissions trends are reversed in the first half of the 20 …

barriers played in China’s growth and urbanization. We find that the primary drivers for real per capita GDP growth are … toward China’s admission to the WTO it does not contribute much to real per capita GDP growth. During this transition process …

Economists use micro-based and macro-based approaches to assess the macroeconomic return to population health. The …