This paper examines an in-depth and systematic review of why some nations are so rich, while others remain so poor taking into account temporal and spatial dynamics applied for economic growth covariants. Growth literature underscores direct and indirect causes for economic growth. Likewise,...

Based on a review of 700+ peer-reviewed articles since 1990, identified using text mining methodology and supervised machine learning, we analyze how neoSchumpeterian growth theorists relate to the entrepreneur-centered view of Schumpeter (1934) and the entrepreneurless framework of Schumpeter...

This paper considers a class of growth models with idiosyncratic human capital risk and private information about individual effort choices (moral hazard). Households are infinitely-lived and have preferences that allow for a time-additive expected utility representation with a one-period...

This study investigates the causal relationship between financial innovation and economic growth in China, India, and Pakistan over the period of 1970-2016. Using an Auto-regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bound testing and Granger causality-based Error Correction Model (ECM), this study finds...

China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced economies, even though growth is likely to slow from near double-digit rates in the first decade of this millennium to around 7% at the 2020 horizon. However, in order to...

The chapter reconceptualizes financial innovation. In this context, it discusses the risks of financial innovation and contemporary regulatory reforms addressing those risks. It provides a critique of contemporary reforms. Finally, it stresses the need for a new framework to regulate financial...