Time varying patterns in US growth are analyzed using various univariate model structures, starting from a naive model … conditional variance are specified together with their interaction, including survey data on expected growth in order to … forecasting performance of the various model specifications. The extension of a basic growth model with a constant mean to models …

, and (iii) productivity and growth, relative to the contributions of the entrepreneurs’ counterparts, i.e., the ‘control … very important-but specific-function in the economy. They engender relatively much employment creation, productivity growth … studies show that entrepreneurial firms produce important spillovers that affect regional employment growth rates of all …

There has been a revival of interest in the effect of risk on economic growth. We quantify both ex ante and ex post … remarkable long-running panel data set for rural households in Zimbabwe. We find that risk substantially reduces growth: in the …, the first micro-based estimate of the effect of shocks on growth. About two-thirds of the impact of risk is due to the ex …

This discussion paper has resulted in a chapter in: (R.U. Ayres, D. Simpson, and M. Toman (eds.)), Scarcity and Growth …

growth opportunities. Also,higher accountability and lower income inequality are associated with more ef-fective legal …

In recent years there has been a growing interest in the impact of inequality on economic growth. Both theoretical and … part of the literature that considers inequality detrimental to growth, more recent studies have challenged this result and … found a positive effect of inequality on growth. This paper contributes to the debate by using meta-analytical techniques to …

achieving high output growth. It is argued that due to the forward looking nature of the foreign exchange market, exchange rate …

This paper puts forward a method to estimate average economic growth, andits associated confidence bounds, which does …