This paper empirically investigates the determinants of citations based on the publication of the top 100 most often cited economists. The effects of publication age and author fame on subsequent citations are found to be positive and significant. Citations are also significantly affected by...

This paper examines the effect of university education on economic growth across 34 developed countries. Professors' research output is used as a proxy for the quality of education at the university level. To allow for some degree of difficulties in learning English across countries, an English...

The effects of energy prices and energy conservation on economic growth have been examined empirically for the postwar U.S. economy. A vector autoregressive model includes real GDP, real capital, labor, real energy prices, and the Divisia energy index. A key feature of our finding is that some...