productive and active VC industry boosts innovation driven growth. …

This paper examines the performance of 358 European diversified equity mutual funds controlling for gender differences …. Fund performance is evaluated against funds’ designated market indices and representative style portfolios. Consistently … with previous studies, no significant differences in performance and risk are found between female and male managed funds …

evaluate the performance of local government in the provision of local public services. The model employs a reduced set of …

problems in the home country, with a lesser factor being the weak performance of the foreign subsidiary. …

After a decade of research on the relationship between institutions and growth, scholars in this field seem to be … divided. Economic institutions perform well in growth regressions and a body of literature argues that this supports the key … literature describes are the more stable political institutions, and these have been found to play no role in empirical growth …

In most monetary models of economic growth, higher long-run inflation is associated with a decline in the growth rate …. We consider three types of endogenous growth models: 1) the AK-model, 2) the Lucas (1990) supply-side model, and 3) the … inflation results in lower growth and employment in all three models, while, in the cash-credit good economy of Dotsey and …

Existing growth research provides little explanation for the very large differences in long-run growth performance … across OECD countries. We show that cognitive skills can account for growth differences within the OECD, whereas a range of … economic institutions and quantitative measures of tertiary education cannot. Under the growth model estimates and plausible …

We analyze how the threat of a potential future regime shift affects optimal management. We use a simple general growth …

We explore the impact of large banks and of financial openness for aggregate growth. Large banks matter because of …-level do not cancel out in the aggregate but can affect macroeconomic outcomes. Financial openness may affect GDP growth in and …. Second, financial openness lowers GDP growth. Third, granular effects tend to be stronger in financially closed economies. …