In this paper we used the procedures developed in the Kumar and Russell (2002) growth-accounting study to examine cross-country growth during the 1990's. Using a data set comprising developed, newly industrialized, developing and transitional economies, we decomposed the growth of output per...

Klaus F Zimmermann Dorothea Schäfer Finanzmärkte nach dem Flächenbrand Warum es dazu kam und was wir daraus lernen müssen Mit Beiträgen von: Oleg Badunenko Nataliya Barasinska Amelie F. Constant Christian Dreger Rolf Ketzler Mechthild Schrooten GABLER ...

The paper investigates how Private Equity (PE) ownership influences out-performance of a high-growth firm, and whether it differs from the effect of two other important types of financial investors: banks and non-bank financial firms. We transform the levered return on equity into a unlevered...

The standard approach to the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) holds that as a country develops and GDP per capita grows environmental degradation initially increases but eventually it reaches a turning point where environmental degradation begins to decline. Environmental degradation takes many...