external capital and have greater growth opportunities. Also, higher accountability and lower income inequality are associated …

claim that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question …, and (iii) productivity and growth, relative to the contributions of the entrepreneurs’ counterparts, i.e., the ‘control … group’? A fourth type of contribution studied is the role of entrepreneurship in increasing individuals’ utility levels …

liberalization on growth, taking into account constraints imposed by the ‘Mundell’s trilemma’. The model, calibrated to data for …

how reforms worked in the past, we quantitatively review 60 studies estimating the relation between reforms and growth … average reform caused substantial costs in the short run, but had strong positive effects on long-run growth. Reforms focused …

We analyze 1334 estimates from 67 studies that examine the effect of financial development on economic growth. Taken …. Studies that do not address endogeneity tend to overstate the effect of finance on growth. The effect seems to be weaker in … growth than other financial intermediaries. We find no evidence of publication bias in the literature. …

income countries, reach strong, sustained and shared growth in the post-crisis world. The paper first reviews, with a special … predominated prior to the crisis towards growth. Fiscal policy is key in this regard, through public outlays on infrastructure …

We analyze how the threat of a potential future regime shift affects optimal management. We use a simple general growth …

Zimbabwe faces growth and external competitiveness challenges, as indicated by its low trend growth and investment … 2008 economic collapse and under the current multicurrency regime. While overvaluation hampers GDP growth, as well as … growth and employment in export sectors, we have not found that undervaluation would raise it. Replacing the multicurrency …

implementation of mass privatization programs negatively impacts measures of economic growth, state capacity and the security of …

Chinese city-level data indicate that differences in growth rates are far more severe than indicated in previous … studies which typically use data at higher levels of aggregation. We estimate growth equations using city-level data and find … that the policy of awarding a special economic zone status enhances growth substantially, increasing annual growth rates by …