This paper studies the connection between trade and growth in the context of a partial and inconsistent liberalization … for the closer integration with Russia and the impact of this process on Belarus growth led us to the conclusion that the … conclusion is supported by the results of country-specific growth regressions and of a counterfactual free trade experiment via a …

-run equilibrium characteristic of a two-region model with fixed exchange rates, heterogeneous labor markets, and endogenous growth …. Under flexible exchange rates, monetary policy closes output gaps and realizes the associated maximum TFP growth in both … regions. Upon fixing exchange rates, the region with higher structural wage inflation falls into a low-growth trap. When …

, taxation and growth,most empirical analyses arerestricted to simple linear regressions of growth on some measure of … knowledgeon the complex relationship between fiscal policies and economic growth, notonly nationally but also regionally. …

- and labour-productivity growth. …

This paper addresses the interplay between economic growth, energy use, change in sectoral composition and … considerably to macroeconomic energy-productivity growth while in other countries they partly offset energy-efficiency improvements … also find labour productivity growth to be higher on average than energy productivity growth. Over time, this bias towards …

This paper provides an empirical analysis of decoupling economic growth and energy use and its various determinants by … considerably to aggregate manufacturing energy-productivity growth and, hence, to decoupling, while in other countries they partly … manufacturing labour-productivity developments. Furthermore, we find labour-productivity growth to be higher on average than energy …

forecasts of macro-level productivity growth. The paper employs current research methods on estimating firm-level productivity …