We examine the contribution of human capital to economy-wide technological improvements through the two channels of innovation and imitation. We develop a theoretical model showing that skilled labor has a higher growth-enhancing effect closer to the technological frontier under the reasonable...

An analysis of the effects of natural hazards on society does not solely depend on a region's topographic or climatic exposure to natural processes, but the region's institutional resilience to natural processes that ultimately determines whether natural processes result in a natural hazard or...

Rajan and Zingales (1998) use U.S. Compustat firm data for the 1980s to obtain measures of manufacturing sectors? Dependence on External Finance (DEF). They take any differences in these measures to be structural/technological and thus applicable to other countries. Their joint assumptions about...

This paper investigates whether the degree and the nature of economic and monetary policy interdependence between the United States and the euro area have changed with the advent of EMU. Using real-time data, it addresses this issue from the perspective of financial markets by analysing the...

Die US-Volkswirtschaft ist seit einigen Jahren durch ein inflationsfreies Wachstum bei gleichzeitig niedriger Arbeitslosigkeit gekennzeichnet - eine Konstellation, die als New Economy bezeichnet wird. Handelt es sich dabei um eine grundlegende Veränderung der bisher vorherrschenden...

Technischer Fortschritt und Humankapital sind die Triebfedern des langfristigen globalen Wachstums. Welche Rolle spielen sie im Rahmen der internationalen Arbeitsteilung? Wie wirkt sich die erwartete demographische Schrumpfung in den Industrieländern auf die Entwicklung des Humankapitals aus?...

Although developing countries face a drastic increase in their greenhouse gas emissions, mitigation actions against climate change do not rank high among their priorities. The obvious reason lies in the necessity for them to continue the development process, which is characterised by pressing...

The relationship between economic growth and pollution is very complex, depending upon a host of different factors. Thus the study of this phenomenon represents a challenging endeavor. While most economics papers begin with theory and support that theory with econometric evidence, the literature...

Environmental policy affects the distribution of market shares if intermediate goods are differentiated in pollution intensity. When innovations are environmental friendly, a tax on emissions skews demand towards new goods, which are the most productive. In this case along a balanced growth path...