countries over five decades, from 1960 to 2010. Using panel time-series techniques, it is shown that international trade in … restrictive business and labor market regulations. The results also show that long-run causality runs in both directions …

countries. Using both homogeneous and heterogeneous panel cointegration techniques, I find that the effect of foreign aid on FDI …

resource-based economy. This is done with cross-sectional and panel analysis, using an instrument for credit demand based on …

growth across the globe. In a large sample of countries, equality in the distribution of income as measured by the World Bank … and by The Standardized World Income Inequality Database are seen to be correlated with economic diversification, the rule … in the World Values Survey, and democracy, all of which are good for growth as reflected in the purchasing power of per …

right tail of the bank size distribution follows a power law. Also, the presence of big banks as measured by high market …Does the mere presence of big banks affect macroeconomic outcomes? Gabaix (2011) shows that idosyncratic shocks can … models of banking. Using a model with banks of heterogenous size who charge endogenous markups, we show under which …

a) long-term panel data and estimation with individual fixed effects, b) regional GDP per capita with a higher variation … individual panel data allow exploiting important methodological advantages. Novelties of our test of the Easterlin hypothesis are …. Using long-term panel data for Germany and the United Kingdom, we do not find robust evidence for a relationship between GDP …