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This paper deals with the slowdown of economic growth in Europe. For that purpose, we focus on factors that affect the … long-run growth path of different economies. Special emphasis is paid to institutional and structural factors that are … often assumed to affect aggregate growth: functioning of labor markets, availability of labor and capital, and the size of …
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—together with standard growth models to frame the role of religion in economic growth. Unifying a growing literature, we argue that … religion can enhance or impinge upon economic growth through all four elements because it shapes individual preferences …
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The creation and effects of social capital have seldom been a target for systematic analysis in orthodox economics. The purpose of the paper is to argue that in order to include social capital, along with physical and human, into economic analysis, we have to regard human preferences as...
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The standard assumption of exogenous policy preferences implies that parties set their positions according to their voters' preferences. We investigate the reverse effect: Are the electorates' policy preferences responsive to party positions? In a representative German survey, we inform...
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The literature on growth theory is rich with models attempting to explain growth differences among countries. Several … variables have been proposed many of which were found to be positively related to growth. However, a major problem with these … models is that the factors explaining growth are endogenously determined by their environment so that a slow-growing or a …
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This paper deals with the debt-growth relationship using several time-series tools. The idea is to find out whether the …
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Prior literature documents the usefulness of the DuPont disaggregation for predicting firms future profitability, operating income, and stock market returns. In addition, research also emphasizes the importance of earnings quality information. However, there is a lack of research examining how...
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This paper investigates economic convergence in real income per capita between 27 European Union countries. We employ a non-linear latent factor framework to study transitional behavior among economies between 1970 and 2010. Our results offer important insights on the economic catch-up exhibited...
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economic growth and public education is evaluated: both have a positive, significant, and substantial effect on …
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We explore the role of social mobility as a driver of economic development. First, we map the geography of intergenerational mobility of education for 52 Latin American regions, as well as its evolution over time. Then, through a new weighting procedure that considers the participation of...
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