Spanish Abstract: El ritmo de crecimiento económico japonés fue sustancialmente mayor que el exhibido por el conjunto de las economías desarrolladas entre 1985 y 1995; posteriormente ha sido menor. ¿Qué explica esta declinación relativa? De acuerdo con los resultados econométricos de un...

Spanish Abstract: El objetivo de este estudio es determinar el impacto de la banda ancha en Colombia a nivel municipal sobre el valor agregado en municipios. A partir de información de penetración de banda ancha fija, y de usuarios de telefonía móvil con cobertura de internet móvil 4G en...

The economic slowdown experienced in Colombia since 1980 is explained by the structural stagnation of the national economy and the escalation of violence associated with the expansion of drug trafficking. The available data do not reject this hypothesis. The article sustains that...

Spanish Abstract: Las empresas extranjeras, como vehículos de la inversión extranjera directa (IED), se les consideran como un canal que pueden contribuir al crecimiento y desarrollo de las regiones, al incremento del nivel de empleo, y como un factor que tiene la capacidad de transferir nuevo...

This paper shows that the evolution of the level of Mexico real and real per capita output between 1895 and 2008 can be adequately described through a trendstationary model, affected by 4 structural breaks, which occurred at dates that seem to coincide with domestic institutional arrangements,...

This paper analyzes national and regional efficiency and total factor productivity of Spanish hotels. The nonparametric frontier DEA methodology has been used to assess the levels of efficiency of the hotel firms and Malmquist indices to estimate the productive change in the period 2001-2008....

Since Information and Communication Technologies adoption has grown, research on link of ICT and Economic Growth link has been rapidly developed, both in academic world and by governments and cooperation and development agencies. Research has found that there is a significant impact of the use...

Based on satellite photos of night light from NASA and the U.S. Department of Defense, and using the methodology proposed by Henderson, Storeygard and Weil (2012), this paper measures the economic growth of the main 15 beach tourist areas in Mexico for the period from 1993 to 2017. This...

In recent times, Sraffian Supermultiplier Model (SSM) (Freitas & Serrano, 2015; Serrano, 1995; Serrano et al., 2019) has become prominent in both theoretical and empirical discussions within the demand-led-growth framework. The SSM has three distinctive features: the rate of growth of output is...

This paper looks at the hypothesis of conditional convergence of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita for a set of eighteen Latin American countries establishing a positive link with the growth rate of those economies. To that purpose, Ø-convergence, σ-convergence and Ú-convergence...