The Internet plays a growing role in the economy. This paper extrapolates this trend and analyses a world where most transactions take place in "cyberspace". We ask the following question: how does the design of the search engine affect the incentives to innovate and the economy’s long run...

In this paper, we present international comparisons of potential output growth among several economies Canada, the euro area, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States for the period 1991-2004. The main estimates rely on a structural approach where...