This paper examines the impacts of banking market structure and regulation on economic growth using new data on banking … market concentration and manufacturing industry-level growth rates for U.S. states during 1899-1929 — a period when the … on manufacturing sector growth in the early twentieth century United States, with a somewhat stronger impact on …

part of the significant shift in the cross-sectional distribution of state-sectoral output growth rates since the mid -1980 …s. The time profile of the V-Factor appears to be closely related to trade liberalization. -- Economic Growth ; factor …

The relationship between venture capital and growth is examined using an endogenous growth model incorporating dynamic … reduces growth and welfare …

behind slow productivity growth in Canada in the second half of the 1990s, in marked contrast to the acceleration of … concludes that the balance of evidence now favours an acceleration of trend labour productivity growth to the 2-2.5 per cent per …

. All in all we cannot reject convergence of ULC growth in EMU, however, country-specific deviations from the rest of the …

area, and narrower differences in labour productivity growth (Alvarez et al., 2006). We investigate convergence of … inflation using unit labour cost (ULC) growth and applying PANIC (Bai and Ng, 2004) and cluster procedures (Hobijn and Franses … are much less important in explaining the variance of ULC growth. We report evidence for convergence clusters in all …