Purpose – The aim of this paper is to identify the importance of property sector investment in regional economic growth in Greece. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses regional accounts data, including investment and employment for all Greek industries. The standard Cobb‐Douglas...

This study examines the role of proximity in regional growth using a multi-dimensional framework, for seven EU countries during 1990–2005. We incorporate geographical as well as economic and technological effects in two seminal growth models in order to test for the existence and magnitude of...

Institutional and Social Dynamics of Growth and Distribution presents a set of original contributions to the much-debated issues of long-run economic growth in relation to institutional and social progress.

This paper surveys the literature which examines the effect of education on economic growth. Specifically, we apply meta-regression analysis to 57 studies with 989 estimates and show that there is substantial publication selection bias toward a positive impact of education on growth. Once we...

The present paper studies the general equilibrium implications of two types of education policy in an overlapping generations model. We examine education transfers, which augment inherited private education spending, and public investment on economy-wide human capital, which provides...