We propose a novel framework to analyse the macroeconomic impact of noncommunicable diseases. We incorporate measures of disease prevalence into a human capital augmented production function, which enables us to determine the economic costs of chronic health conditions in terms of foregone gross...

Previous research has found that owner/manager growth intention is related to subsequent firm growth, but growth intention alone only explains about 4-5% of the variance in actual firm growth. The purpose of this study is to investigate factors in addition to growth intention that may help us to...

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...