Mainstream economic research regards private debt as a determinant of GDP growth in the longrun. Levine (2005) surveys … focus from the long to the short-run and study whether private debt has a significant impact on GDP growth in the short …

By examining discrepancies between officially reported GDP growth figures and the actual economic growth implied by … satellite-based night time light (NTL) density, we investigate whether democracies manipulate officially reported GDP figures … the incumbent. These results are robust to allowing the elasticity of official GDP statistics to NTL to be country …

This paper examines the relationship between the logarithms of CO2 emissions and real GDP in China by applying …

macro series, namely annual and quarterly real GDP and GDP per capita. The results indicate that the behaviour of US GDP can … of persistence in the data. Both appear to be mean-reverting, although the stochastic trend is nonstationary whilst the …

Economic research has considered Private Debt a determinant of GDP growth for years. By keeping this perspective, the … objective of this work is to understand how much of the GDP response to a monetary shock is due to the variation of private debt …

Better Life Index (BLI) objectives. To assess the efficiency test, we use Data Envelopment Analysis integrated with Principal … Component Analysis. Our analysis shows that BLI increases with GDP only for poor countries, extending the Easterlin Paradox to …

negatively and independently from the effect of life expectancy. There is no correlation with GDP. Econometric analysis of the … data is undertaken to control for potentially confounding factors. …

holds after adjustment for GDP and other socioeconomic variables -- is currently unknown. Using data on 131 countries, the …

We construct the world's centers of gravity for human population, GDP and CO2 emissions by taking the best out of five … recognized data sources covering the last two centuries. On the basis of a novel distorsion-free representation of these centers … of gravity, we find a radical Western shift of GDP and CO2 emissions centers in the 19th century, in sharp contrast with …