We investigate the finance-growth nexus before and around the global financial crisis using for the first time OTC derivative data in growth estimates. Beyond the most recent Wacthel and Rousseau (2010) evidence which documents the interruption of the positive finance-growth relationship after...

<span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Economic Growth and the Nanotechnology Priority: The Challenge of Economic Crisis and Industrial Concentration </span><span>argues that the nanometer scale would revolutionize and advance sources of economic growth to its highest and best use in history. </span></span><br /><span><span> </span></span>

We present a novel approach to assessing the attentiveness of professional forecasters to news about the macroeconomy. We find evidence that professional forecasters, taken as a group, do not always update their estimates of the current state of the economy to reflect the latest releases of...