The growth of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in developing countries over the last decade has attracted an intense academic and policy-oriented interest for its determinants. Despite the gravity model being considered a useful tool to approximate bilateral FDI flows, the literature has seen a...

This paper analyzes how different forms of inequality have affected potential growth and the natural rate of interest in the U.S., Germany, and Japan during the last two decades. Growing inequality may constitute a drawback for the recovery of these economies after the Great Recession (GR) and...