Foreign direct investments (FDI) are an important determinant of economic growth. Coun-tries try to attract mobile …

-driven comparative studies about the impact of autocratic transition on real per capita GDP. The applied methodology compares the growth … of countries that experienced a transition to autocracy with the growth of a convex combination of similar countries that …

growth. The results suggest that de facto and de jure globalization influence economic growth differently. Future research …

and bad growth prospects, and that these adverse effects are more severe in volatile countries with bad institutions and …

Cross-country regressions suggest that urbanization and FDI are important drivers of growth. However, it is not clear … that primacy eventually hurts growth performance. Since it is tough to interpret cross-country growth regressions, we … growth and unbundling spatial lags matters. Robustness is verified by re-estimating our regressions with fixed effects and …

corrects for endogeneity of resource exports and allows resource abundance affect growth. Their results show that resource … exports are no longer significant while the value of subsoil assets has a significant positive effect on growth. But the World … longer significant. However, the same evidence suggests that resource exports or rents boost growth in stable countries, but …

growth, and find that it has a robust negative effect on GDP growth. This link coexists with the negative link between … variance and growth typically found in the literature. To explain the link between crises and growth we present a model where … weak institutions lead to severe financial constraints and low growth. Financial liberalization policies that facilitate …

We build and estimate a structural dynamic general equilibrium model of growth and trade. Trade affects growth through …, growth affects trade, directly through changes in country size and indirectly through altering the incidence of trade costs …. Theory translates into an intuitive econometric system that identifies the causal impact of trade on income and growth, and …