We investigate the finance-growth nexus before and around the global financial crisis using for the first time OTC derivative data in growth estimates. Beyond the most recent Wacthel and Rousseau (2010) evidence which documents the interruption of the positive finance-growth relationship after...

<span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Economic Growth and the Nanotechnology Priority: The Challenge of Economic Crisis and Industrial Concentration </span><span>argues that the nanometer scale would revolutionize and advance sources of economic growth to its highest and best use in history. </span></span><br /><span><span> </span></span>

In what sense are institutions a deep determinant of growth? In this paper, we address this question by examining the relationship between city growth and institutional reform in 19th century Germany, when some cities experienced deep institutional reform as a result of French rule. Employing an...