Long run economic growth goes along with structural change. Recent work has identified explanatory factors on the … demand side (non-homothetic preferences) and on the supply-side, in particular differential productivity growth across … these trends. The interplay of differences in productivity growth and in the substitution elasticity across sectors drive …

There is growing interest in multi-sector models that combine aggregate balanced growth, consistent with the well … intensive in the input that becomes more abundant. As a result, growth rates of sectoral capital-labor ratios can differ and, if …

We discuss the sustainability of Chinese high growth relative to growth experience elsewhere, and specifically Soviet … Russia in the 1950s to the 1960s by asking if the aggregate technology can eventually similarly constrain high growth … that the substitution elasticity is greater than one. We then discuss how sub aggregate high growth can occur when there …

Financial constraints are an important impediment to the growth of small businesses. We study theoretically and … decisions and growth of principals, in the context of franchising. We find that a 30 percent decrease in average … waiting time, and slows their growth by around 10 percent, leading to a 10 percent reduction in franchised chain employment. …

We investigate the relationship between unemployment and growth in China. We find considerable differences in the …

A central issue in the study of sustainable development is the interplay of growth and sacrifice in a dynamic economy … provides the limit to growth. Maximin value is interpreted as a dynamic environmental-economic carrying capacity and current …

We make use of a bootstrap panel analysis of causality between energy use and economic growth for a sample of sixteen … African countries over the period 1988-2010. Our results show that growth and energy use are strongly linked in Africa …. However, African countries are heterogeneous and there is no “one way” recommendation about energy-growth relationship that …