capacity'). In this paper we document that there has been convergence of TFP within a panel of industries across thirteen OECD … productivity growth. …

The existing literature on Indian growth finds no evidence of convergence across states. This represents a puzzle given … income and socio-economic data to explore the hypotheses of conditional convergence, using distance as an indicator of … internal geographical trade and migration costs. We find evidence of conditional convergence for Indian districts but at a rate …

institutional economics literature has long maintained that one way institutions influence economic growth is by impacting the …

documents the drivers of its recent growth and diversification, and the factors that have held it back. It documents its … segmentation and the outsized tail of poorly performing firms, which undermines aggregate productivity growth. Low productivity …

This paper examines the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) on South Asian economies’ output growth, utilizing … growth is found. We find evidence for both FDI-led growth and growth-induced FDI hypotheses for the South Asian economies … capital, and government consumption show the most significant positive effects on output growth. As determinants of FDI, GDP …

growth, but they may provide relief from stress, support to family members, and increased well-being. We argue that the …

We construct an endogenous growth model that includes a cultural variable along the dimension of individualism … innovation in an individualist culture. This cultural effect may offset the negative effects of bad institutions on growth … individualism on growth through innovation. Using genetic data as instruments for culture we provide strong evidence of a causal …

While the return to growth in the US is largely credited to the rapid spreading of information technology, a key policy … technologies are about to play. In this paper, I collect and supplement data on the extent and the contribution to growth of new … capital accumulation in information technologies did make a contribution to growth in the EU too, though not equally …

constrained the opportunities of innovative firms for equity-based growth and the incentives for academic brains to set up in …