sustained growth. Starting with a wide-ranging macroeconomic diagnosis, this monograph examines the strengths and …

sustained growth. Starting with a wide-ranging macroeconomic diagnosis, this monograph examines the strengths and …

sides of the iron curtain. Using the recently released EU KLEMS database on detailed sectoral growth and employment measures … driver in growth and productivity. We demonstrate that the Central and Eastern European countries have successfully …-up was accompanied by low employment growth in the period 1995-2004 - despite high unemployment levels - we also investigate …

This paper looks at economic growth and its fundamental determinants in Russia over the last decades. It starts by … showing that, contrary to the views of some political commentators, growth is highly important for the popularity of president … Putin. Furthermore, regular models of growth are relevant to Russia and other transition countries over the last two decades …

-together with standard growth models to frame the role of religion in economic growth. Unifying a growing literature, we argue that … religion can enhance or impinge upon economic growth through all four elements because it shapes individual preferences …

- together with standard growth models to frame the role of religion in economic growth. Unifying a growing literature, we argue … that religion can enhance or impinge upon economic growth through all four elements because it shapes individual …

answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation …, and (iii) productivity and growth, relative to the contributions of the entrepreneurs’ counterparts, i.e., the ‘control … very important-but specific-function in the economy. They engender relatively much employment creation, productivity growth …

growth rates or survival time of manufacturing firms. Taken together, these results show that innovation is not uniformly …This paper studies how innovation strategies of Russian manufacturing firms affect various features of firm performance …. A multi stage model is used, which relates the firm's decision to undertake R&D to its innovation output, technical …