We address the pitfalls of averaging by exploiting the longitudinal variation in aid to identify sudden and sharp increases in aid flows. Focusing on specific events, we test if aid accelerations correspond to policies and shocks in the recipient country. For a large sample of 145 recipient...

This paper extends the literature on bank capital structure by modeling capital structure as a function of important public policy and bank regulatory characteristics of the home country, as well as of bank-specific variables, country-level macroeconomic conditions, and country-level financial...

L’évolution de la croissance de l’économie mondiale joue un rôle crucial dans la conduite de la politique monétaire canadienne. À cet égard, les auteurs étudient l’utilité des indices mensuels des directeurs d’achats (PMI) pour la prévision de la croissance du PIB réel à court...

This paper analyses intergenerational educational mobility using survey data for twenty countries. We find that a number of interesting patterns emerge. Estimating a measure of mobility as movement and an index of mobility as equality of opportunity we find that while these two measures are...

The objective of this study is to investigate the validity of the Kaldor-Verdoorn's Law in explaining the long run determinants of the labor productivity growth for the manufacturing sector of some developed economies (Western European Countries, Australia, Canada, Japan and United States). We...

Although there exists a vast literature on convergence and divergence of income levels across countries or regions at the aggregate level, there is only little work on convergence and/or diver- gence processes of productivity and wage levels at the more disaggregated industrial level. These are...

Does the supply of a welfare state create its own demand? Many economic scholars studying welfare arrangements refer to Say's law and insinuate a self-destructive welfare state. However, little is known about the empirical validity of these assumptions and hypotheses. We study the dynamic effect...

Das reale Bruttosozialprodukt in den Industrieländern ist im ersten Halbjahr 1990 mit einer laufenden Jahresrate von etwa 2,5 vH gestiegen. Damit hat sich die wirtschaftliche Expansion seit Mitte 1988 merklich verlangsamt (Schaubild 1); dies war von den wirtschaftspolitischen Instanzen...

Die wirtschaftliche Aktivität in den Industrieländern hat sich 1991 zunächst weiter abgeschwächt, die Talsohle der Konjunktur scheint aber im Sommer durchschritten worden zu sein. Im ersten Halbjahr stagnierte das Bruttosozialprodukt, und die gesamtwirtschaftliche Kapazitätsauslastung...