Germany remains Europe's largest and most diversified source of new technology, but still lags in the fastest growing … areas of today's high technology. After World War II, West-German technology policy sought to rebuild the institutions which … constrained the opportunities of innovative firms for equity-based growth and the incentives for academic brains to set up in …

Can the standard search-and-matching labor market model replicate the business cycle fluctuations of the job finding … rate and the unemployment rate? In the model, fluctuations are prominently driven by productivity shocks which are commonly … interpreted as technology shocks. I estimate different types of technology shocks from structural VARs and reassess the empirical …

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 …

correlation to growth when their magnitudes shrank. It is argued that more aid can impair the quality of domestic policies in the …

neoclassical growth model. …

A review of the measures of the stock of human capital used in empirical growth research reveals that human capital is …