growth through capital accumulation. This paper contributes to this literature. As opposed to the previous studies, which …. Saving and GDP are estimated in bivariate vector autoregressive or vector error-correction models for Sweden, UK, and USA …

This paper uses a large cross-country survey of business firms to assess their influence on government policies. It is … legislation are viewed as impeding firm growth decreases with political influence and, independently, with a country's level of …

combining annual and nationally representative household survey data with detailed information on income tax declarations … cent to 34.4 per cent. Despite strong average income growth, the poorest 50 per cent only made moderate gains, which came … income of the bottom that matters more than its growth. We show that the role of the personal income tax in regulating …

We use US county level data (3,058 observations) from 1970 to 1998 to explore the relationship between economic growth …, state and local government employments are all negatively associated with economic growth. We find no evidence that … those who justify government activities in terms of equity concerns - perhaps even trading off economic growth for equity …

A growing body of recent macroeconomic evidence suggests that volatility is detrimental to economic growth. The … channels through which volatility affects growth, however, are less clear; substantive evidence based on disaggregate data is … productive industries, thereby affecting economic growth. Empirical support for this relationship is based on a detailed dataset …

impact of these shocks on economic growth. This paper reviews the literature on macroeconomic vulnerability and finds that …

We conduct an extensive robustness analysis of the relationship between trust and growth for a later time period (the … results. We find that the trust-growth relationship is less robust with respect to empirical specification and to countries in … compared with many other growth-regression variables. …

A highly skilled immigration can be growth enhancing if the positive contribution of the imported brains to the host … growth depleting if the latter effect dominates. …