This paper aims to investigate the relationship between economic growth, institutional quality and financial development whitin a sample of middle-income countries. We generate three hypothesis on the potential relationships between those three dimensions by reviewing the existing literature and...

This paper aims to conduct a precise test of the political economy hypothesis linking income inequality and economic growth. By choosing covariates from a detailed county-level dataset and assuming that U.S. counties experience perfect capital mobility, I shut off the four possible channels...

This dissertation, titled “Flexibility in European Wage Structure and itsimplications for the European Unemployment,” studies the problem of high rates ofunemployment in Europe during the last few decades through the optic of European wagebehavior. It examines the European wage structure –...