We develop a model of growth driven by successive improvements in `General Purpose Technologies' (GPTs), such as the … second phase that growth starts in earnest. The historical record of productivity growth associated with electrification, and …

Trends in gross domestic product (GDP) and total factor productivity (TFP) growth in the former socialist economies … seem to indicate that these economies were converging to unusually low long-run growth rates in the late 1980s. In this … paper we develop an endogenous growth model of entrepreneurship that is able to account for the difference in long …

Recent research has revealed enormous variation in performance and growth among firms, which both drives and is driven …

This paper examines whether growth regressions should incorporate dualism and structural change. If there is a … factor productivity. The paper develops empirical growth models that allow for this effect in a more flexible way than … labour can explain a significant fraction of the international variation in TFP growth. …

at least half of product innovation and growth comes from firms that never patent. We also find that market leaders use …

This chapter is an exposition, rather than a survey, of the one-sector neoclassical growth model. It describes how the … non-renewable natural resources, endogenous population growth and technological progress. In each case, the purpose is to …

role to play, if at all, but the interaction between distribution and growth is at the centre of Marxian and post … will thus provide Marxian and Kaleckian assessments of the distribution and growth regimes under finance …The re-distribution of income from labour to capital, from workers to top-managers, and from low income households to …

technical progress, the above-unity elasticity of substitution can be a source of growth (the ‘de La Grandville hypothesis’). We … then draw upon our estimated framework to rationalize China’s high and rising savings ratio as well as the dynamic nature …

We examine the relationship between wealth and health through prominent growth indicators and cognitive ability … of cognitive ability. The growth indicators utilized are GDP per capita, schooling, overall and manufacturing … productivities, and savings. We estimate our models using the FE, GMM estimators, and long difference OLS and IV estimation through …

We examine the relationship between wealth and health through prominent growth indicators and cognitive ability … of cognitive ability. The growth indicators utilized are GDP per capita, schooling, overall and manufacturing … productivities, and savings. We estimate our models using the FE, GMM estimators, and long difference OLS and IV estimation through …