-degenerate world income distribution. In accordance with the empirical literature, I find that country characteristics such as the … social infrastructure, the degree of openness, the investment rate, population growth, the level of human capital, or growth … policies such as subsidies to innovation investments explain a country's position in the eventual world income distribution …

'consumption' vs. 'investment' good. We use as a natural experiment the Italian pension reforms of the 90s that introduced a clear …

We present a multi-country theory of economic growth in which countries are connected by a network of mutual knowledge … knowledge throughout the world explains a period of increasing world inequality after the take-off of the forerunners of the … industrial revolution, followed by decreasing relative inequality. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network explains the …

the political turmoil in the Arab world, with the so-called Arab Spring …

Between 1950 and 2017, world average life expectancy increased from below-50 to above-70, while the fertility rate …