This paper presents new evidence on the social returns to education within a macroeconomic growth regression framework … dynamic human capital spillovers: the human capital stock increases prospective economic growth. The empirical results are … growth and jobs. Finally, the paper discusses discrepancies between private and social returns to education. …

This paper investigates the average impact of government debt on per-capita GDP growth in twelve euro area countries … over a period of about 40 years starting in 1970. It finds a non-linear impact of debt on growth with a turning point …—beyond which the government debt-to-GDP ratio has a deleterious impact on long-term growth—at about 90-100% of GDP. Confidence …

The number of variables related to long-run economic growth is large compared with the number of countries. Bayesian … model averaging is often used to impose parsimony in the cross-country growth regression. The underlying prior is that many …. The positive relationship between measures of trade openness and growth is much stronger than found in the literature. …

Recent empirical studies on the inflation-growth-relationship underline that inflation has negative growth effects … already under relatively modest rates. Most contributions to monetary growth theory, however, have difficulties in explaining … influence of inflation on factor substitution. It turns out that already in a simple neoclassical monetary growth model this …

In Lisbon the European Council proclaimed a European growth strategy. It considers an average economic u0093growth rate … countries that public finance reform affects trend growth. Focusing on time series patterns, we investigate whether there have … been persistent shifts or trends in economic growth and fiscal variables over the last 40 years. In addition, we estimate a …