It is generally agreed that the rapid rise of public debt in most of the developed countries can be traced to the recent financial crisis, and the accompanying slump contributed to this problem. This has sparked debate about the likely adverse macroeconomic impacts of persistent large debts...

This study empirically examines the role of regulatory quality in explaining the differences in economic growth rates of the twenty three OECD countries over the 1996-2008 period. The model we adopt is a generalized version of the growth accounting, production function model of Solow in which...