emerging and advanced economies. We assess the impact of appreciations, productivity booms and capital inflows surges using a … propensity-score matching approach to address causality issues. We show that appreciations associated with higher productivity …

This paper proposes a theory for the evolution of knowledge diffusion and growth over the very long run. A feedback … mechanism between capital accumulation and knowledge spillovers creates a unified growth theory that explains a long epoch of … explain the Great Divergence, the failure of less developed countries to attract capital from abroad, the productivity …

The growth rate of total factor productivity seems to have increased recently, at least in the United States. Higher US … productivity growth may justify higher stock market valuations than in the past and thus herald an emerging New Economy. However …, the size of the estimated growth rate of total factor productivity depends on an assumption about the factor …