This doctoral thesis, organized in three self-contained chapters, provides an analysis of the economic effects … role that local institutions play in this context. Chapter 2 analyzes how greenhouse gas emissions of companies in OECD and …-Output approach to study the economic effects of increased investments in renewable energies and energy efficiency measures. The …

, which have demonstrated to be a suitable proxy for economic growth and per capita growth. The results show that the … programme can generate large positive effects on municipality level economic growth rates. Robustness checks confirm the …

association between foreign aid and economic growth, measurement errors, and endogenous sample selection bias. The estimates … reveal that World Bank foreign aid projects contribute significantly to grid cell economic activity measured by night …

The long-run impact of economic growth on total fertility trends is ambiguous and sensitive for in-time variations …. Over last decades, economic growth has led in many countries to significant falls in total fertility rates. However, in … mainly attributed to economic growth. The paper unveils the relationship between total fertility rate changes and economic …

This paper attempts to analyse the economic implications of the rise of China, India, Brazil and South Africa, for … beginning to change the balance of economic power in the world. -- China ; India ; Brazil ; South Africa ; growth ; development …

We examine the effect of research and development (R&D) on long-term economic growth using the Bayesian model averaging … model priors. -- research and development ; economic growth ; Bayesian model averaging …

its contribution to overall economic activity, employment, and growth. To do this, it relies heavily on standard …

This paper studies the economic costs of conflicts at the country and ethnic group settlement level with light output …