This paper argues that the growth of large, efficient but anticompetitive superstar firms is responsible for the recent slowdown in US economic growth. The argument is based on the growth theory that we have previously developed and tested, which is based on the concept of creative destruction

For developing countries with advanced societies and growing economies, it is essential to accurately assess the technological innovation effect of capital goods imports on regional development quality. This study explores the path of high-quality urban development from the perspective of...

The relationship between R&D expenditures and firm growth is examined for a cross-country firm-level dataset for the EU countries in the period from 1989 to 2019. A panel dynamic average treatment effect is estimated using a panel time-varying dynamic difference-in-differences model. The...

Economic development disparities are caused mainly by unjustified biased policies and not in actual fact biased policies. Balanced policies are often recommended for balanced growth of all economic sectors. However, through sector linkages, and due to lack of funding in many developing nations,...

The structural transformation of the Indian economy from agriculture (primary sector) dominated to one led by the services sector (tertiary sector), bypassing the intermediate stage of manufacturing (secondary sector) led growth, offers an alternative to conventional theories of economic...

India being an agro based economy with the second highest farm output in the world needs more sustainable growth in this area. The public private partnership is one step towards attaining holistic growth. The government alone is not the answer to everything, the need is more than the capital...

Low-income economies face negative shocks whose frequency and disproportionate impact overcome growth trajectories, producing a negative drift. COVID-19 was the latest such episode. To escape this negative drift, and build a durable recovery, there is a need for a counter-balancing force: to...

In July 1993, The New Yorker published Peter Steiner's celebrated cartoon of two dogs furtively watching a computer screen and one saying to the other: "on the internet no one knows that you're a dog" (vol.69, no. 20, p. 61). The cartoon gained instant popularity by symbolising optimistically...

This paper studies the impact of human capital on the relationship between inward foreign direct investment and economic growth in ASEAN and Latin America during 1975-1995. We test two hypotheses. First, we hypothesise that there is a two-way relationship between economic growth and FDI. Second,...

Proponents of trade liberalization routinely defend international trade institutions as engines of economic growth that benefit everyone. How trade proponents justify trade institutions matters because their justificatory rhetoric leads to certain policy conclusions about whether it is...