productivity, suggesting that news about future economic developments may play an important role in these episodes. In a VAR … estimation, a news shock has a larger contemporaneous impact on sovereign credit spreads than a comparable shock to labor … productivity. A quantitative model of news and sovereign debt default with endogenous maturity choice generates impulse responses …

endogenous growth and convergence behavior, and pollution accumulation in each country with pollution diffusion between countries …

is refreshing that the transmission or diffusion of norms, values, processes and institutional design is now being … South-South inter-regional diffusion has been low is trite. Pre-colonial and colonial patterns of international relations … not far off. Taking account of inter-regional diffusion between the African Union (AU) and the Association of South East …