) and income inequality in the United States. Using panel cointegration techniques that allow for cross …-sectional heterogeneity, cross-sectional dependence, and endogenous regressors, we find that the short-run effects of FDI on income inequality … negative effect on income inequality in the United States. This result for the United States as a whole does not imply that FDI …

This paper investigates the relationship between the size of government and economic growth in OECD countries in 1960 …?2000. The underlying idea is that government expenditures on public goods basically have a positive effect on growth, but this … growth effect tends to decline or even reverse when government is overdoing, e.g. by increasing expenditures in such a way …

of Argentine real GDP growth: (i) distributional conflicts (between the government and the private sector, and between … Argentine growth, at least in the period 1915 - 1978. However, the results for the extended period 1915 - 1988 indicate that our …

that the growth of potential output accelerated in recent years. …

Between 1995 and 2005, the German economy has experienced a phase of weak economic growth. We analyze whether this weak … growth performance can be attributed to the stance of monetary conditions during that period. We show that the real effective … exchange rate did have almost no dampening effects on growth. On the contrary, the introduction of the euro and the single …

“growth gap” between Germany and the rest of the EMU can be related to the difference in the relation of government … other EMU countries on average, thus contributing to higher growth there. …

This paper analyzes China's economic performance in the last 25 years and discusses its prospect for growth in the … future. China has enjoyed high annual GDP growth rates of about ten percent in the last 25 years. Exports and investment were … the two driving forces of the growth process. FDI plays an important role. However, property rights, a crucial element in …

that the growth of potential output in the second half of the decade will be stronger than it had been in the 2001 …

This paper first analyzes the comparative economic growth performance of Latin America in the period 1950-2001. Then it …In diesem Beitrag wird zunächst das Wirtschaftswachstum Lateinamerikas im Zeitraum 1950-2001 im internationalen …