legislation are viewed as impeding firm growth decreases with political influence and, independently, with a country's level of …

panel data (1986-1998) for Sweden's municipalities. The results indicate that labor market programs have relatively large …

institutions, and tests whether such labor rigidities are conducive to long-run growth. We find that non-enforceable labor … regulations do not have a bearing on economic growth, but enforceable labor regulations do. In fact, when using a GMM-IV method … for a panel data of countries during the period 1970-2000 that accounts for weak endogeneity, we find that such a link is …

firm size using maximum likelihood probit estimation. Next various measures of job satisfaction are related to the …

This paper argues that the empirical trade-growth relationship should be modelled using a dynamic panel data approach … than previous results. They confirm the existence of a strong causal effect of trade on growth but fail to find evidence …

money growth is a superior indicator of the monetary environment than the federal funds rate and, thus, the focus is on the … inflation/unemployment responses to money growth shocks. SVAR (structural vector autoregression) and GMM (generalised method of …

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 …