While a large body of literature argues that financial intermediaries exert a causal impact on long-run growth, it doesn't investigate the links between financial architecture and technological change (as primary source of growth). We seek to shed light on these links by exploring the...

The high volatility of economic growth and financial markets in emerging market economies following large swings in foreign capital flows over the past 10 years highlights their possible related costs. This paper investigates the impact of foreign capital flows on GDP growth surprise (= realized...

The United States (US) extracts a large macroeconomic premium from foreigners: she enjoys higher consumption and GDP growths on average relative to the rest of the world (ROW). This is earned even though the US is relatively insulated against global consumption and GDP risks, challenging a...

The authors review the challenges that the Romanian economy and society had to face in the European and global geoeconomic context. Starting from the perspectives advanced by the international economic fora, the risks the European economy will have to answer through counteracting and general...

Contrary to the prediction of benchmark neoclassical models, growth accelerations in developing countries tend to be associated with current account improvements, resulting from larger increases in saving than in investment. I argue that this can be driven by the behavior of entrepreneurs facing...

This paper contributes to the literature by looking at the possible relevance of the structure of the financial system-whether financial intermediation is performed through banks or markets-for macroeconomic volatility, against the backdrop of increased policy attention on strengthening growth...

In this paper we analyze the effects of international capital flows and institutional change on growth in Croatia. The impact of financial integration is assessed by looking at the determinants of real convergence of income per capita to that of the euro area and the institutional change is...

The U.S. financial services industry grew from 4.9% of GDP in 1980 to 7.9% of GDP in 2007. A sizeable portion of the growth can be explained by rising asset management fees, which in turn were driven by increases in the valuation of tradable assets, particularly equity. Another important factor...

Empirical studies of the link between finance and inequality document that across countries financial development is associated with lower and decreasing income inequality. This article uses an indicator of economic literacy as a proxy for the ability to reap the benefits of financial investment...