evolutionary advantage to entrepreneurial, growth promoting traits and their increased representation accelerated the pace of … technological advancements and the process of economic development. Natural selection therefore had magnified growth promoting … evolutionary advantage, diminishing the growth potential of advanced economies and contribution to the convergence of the …

evolved non-monotonically in the course of human history. In early stages of development, risk-tolerant, growth promoting … evolutionary advantage, diminishing the growth potential of advanced economies and contributing to convergence in economic growth …

This paper explores the implications of Unified Growth Theory for the origins of existing differences in income per … factors that have governed the pace of the transition from stagnation to growth and have thus contributed to contemporary … variation in economic development. It uncovers the forces that have sparked the emergence of multiple growth regimes and …

medical technology-is responsible for the majority of growth in medical expenditure. And yet, the principle means of …

Ricardian-Heckscher-Ohlin model implemented on 75 countries. We simulate two alternative productivity growth scenarios: a … magnitude larger welfare gains when China's productivity growth is biased towards its comparative disadvantage sectors. We …

' growth process. …

main drivers of exponential growth in economic possibilities; second, a gradual general rebalancing of life choices away …

model, the state-wide total factor productivity growth (TFPG) indices of US commercial banks for each state for the 1971 …-1995 period. We observe that the productivity growth of commercial banks in state i depends strongly, positively, and … contemporaneously on the productivity growth of commercial banks located in state i's contiguous states. Further, regulatory space …

aggregate productivity growth. We focus our attention on foreign firms and small firms for three reasons. First, industrial …-digit level industries for the 1983-2001 period. We decompose productivity growth into its components (structural change …