The objective of the current paper is to estimate the aggregate, country-level production function as a relationship between countries' aggregate inputs and their maximum attainable output, computed on the basis of the World Technology Frontier -- the best-practice frontier at each moment in...

Most technologies used nowadays are complex in the sense that the production processes (and products themselves) consist of a large number of components which might interact with each other in complementary ways. Based on this insight, the current paper assumes that the total productivity of any...

This paper provides evidence that bridging and bonding social capital as well as social trust may interdependently affect individuals' earnings and subjective well-being. Paper is based on cross-sectional World Values Survey 2000 data on individuals from Central and Eastern European countries...