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explores implications for growth, innovation, inflation, financial markets, fiscal policy, and several socio-economic outcomes …
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public expenditure and its financing via revenue and deficits, and economic growth. We review the various channels through … which public finances affect growth and its underlying determinants (institutional framework, employment, savings and … surveys the empirical findings on the impact of fiscal variables on sustained economic growth. …
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We construct a growth model with an explicit government role, where more government resources reduce the optimal level …-2008, we use different proxies for government size and institutional quality. Our results, consistent with the presented growth … model, show a negative effect of the size of government on growth. Similarly, institutional quality has a positive impact on …
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Productivity performance in European countries has been a policy concern for some time. This paper shows that productivity can be enhanced by product market policies which, by increasing competition and efficiency, facilitate higher rates of firms' entry and exit (i.e., firm churning). Drawing...
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of the causes of the increase in the skill premium and, by implication, inequality in a growing economy …
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Innovative firms with good ideas may still struggle to fine-tune them to the stage where they can attract outside funding. We conduct a five-country randomized experiment that tests the impact of an investment readiness program. Firms then pitched their ideas to independent judges. The program...
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Innovative firms with good ideas may still struggle to fine-tune them to the stage where they can attract outside funding. We conduct a five-country randomized experiment that tests the impact of an investment readiness program. Firms then pitched their ideas to independent judges. The program...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012836794
explores implications for growth, innovation, inflation, financial markets, fiscal policy, and several socio-economic outcomes …
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This paper examines the impact of temporal variation in labour market institutions and other structural factors on unemployment in Europe. These include the influence of trade unions, social security benefits, employment security, mismatch between job seekers and vacancies, the minimum wage and...
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This paper investigates the existence of the bank-lending channel in the transmission of monetary policy using Portuguese micro bank data. In contrast to the conventional approach, which addresses the identification issue by resorting to reduced form equations for bank credit with variables in...
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