Slower growth of the labour force and an increase in old-age dependency will reduce the growth of aggregate output and … productivity is difficult to investigate at a micro level, the paper builds on a large macro-data panel covering developed as well … as developing countries and explores the impact of the age composition of the labour force on levels and growth rates of …

This paper describes the empirical evidence on partisan politics in OECD panel studies. I elaborate on the research …. Discussing about 100 panel data studies, the results indicate that leftwing and rightwing governments pursued different economic …

We examine the economic and social determinants of suicide mortality in a panel of 25 OECD countries over the period … large body of literature our results suggest that unemployment increases suicide mortality, while real economic growth tends …

panel of 145 countries during the period 1970-2007. The main finding is that windfalls from international commodity price …

In this paper we analyse the short- and long-run relationship between employment growth, inflation and output growth in … dynamic panel including annual data for 119 countries over the period 1970-2010, and also carry out multivariate Granger … growth, inflation and output growth with bidirectional causality between employment growth and inflation as well as output …

This paper investigates the long-run effects of public debt and inflation on economic growth. Our contribution is both … the estimation of long-run effects in dynamic heterogeneous panel data models with cross-sectionally dependent errors. The … over the 1965-2010 period, we find significant negative long-run effects of public debt and inflation on growth. Our …

and economic growth. We make use of a Johansen-based panel cointegration methodology allowing for cross-country dependence … a single cointegrating vector between financial development and growth and of causality going from financial development … to economic growth. We find little evidence of reverse causation as well as bi-directional causality. We interpret this …

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 …

This paper studies the long-run impact of public debt expansion on economic growth and investigates whether the debt-growth … develop tests for threshold effects in the context of dynamic heterogeneous panel data models with cross-sectionally dependent … for a universally applicable threshold effect in the relationship between public debt and economic growth, once we account …

-step System GMM panel growth models indicate that the coefficients for real exchange rate misalignment are positive for different …The paper investigates the role of real exchange rate misalignment on long-run growth for a set of ninety countries … using time series data from 1980 to 2004. We first estimate a panel data model (using fixed and random effects) for the real …