The paper examines the role of the vertical structure of the public sector for economic growth in Germany in a long …, federal government activities could have substantially contributed to productivity growth. A review of the German experience … the public sector with regard to productivity growth, since the results indicate that a smaller budget share of the state …

In this paper, a new approach to disclose the impact of politics on economic growth is presented: we use data derived … growth negatively; those which proposed incentives for business as well as technology and infrastructure had a positive …

innovative performance and growth. Consequently, this study investigates whether Young Innovative Companies, as defined by the EU … YICs can be differentiated from New Technology Based Firms and small young firms in terms of growth, pointing to the … R&D intensive (R&D intensity > 15%). In our estimations, we also take the underlying distribution of the growth …

The aim of this paper is to construct an indicator of potential growth for developed countries using the insights of … the theoretical and empirical growth literature. The Pooled Mean Group Estimator of Pesaran, Shin and Smith (1999) that … calculate an indicator of potential growth. The first part of the paper reviews the existing growth literature with a special …

This paper analyses the growth e®ects of EU structural funds using a new panel dataset of 124 NUTS-1 / NUTS-2 regions … Objective 1 payments in particular have a positive and significant impact on growth, whereas Objective 2 and 3 payments … negatively affect the regions' growth rates. Furthermore, our results show that the growth impact occurs with a time lag of …

lay the theoretical base followed by a descriptive view on the relation between inflation, growth and tax revenues in the …

analysis, we investigate the impact of crime on economic performance. We find evidence that employment as well as GDP growth …

This study analyzes the sensitivity of US giving to both business cycle fluctuations and trend growth. With tax …