Different export-pricing currency paradigms have different implications for a host of issues that are critical for policymakers such as business cycle co-movement, optimal monetary policy, optimum currency areas and international monetary policy coordination. Unfortunately, the literature has...

This paper extends the line of research attempting to link innovation to economic growth by addressing some unexplored questions. Using global patent data this paper empirically investigates the importance of both the quantity and quality of innovation on economic growth controlling for past...