Does Leadership Style Matter for Enhancing Economic Performance?

Does Institutions Matter for Economic Development? Evidence for ASEAN Selected Countries

Abstract The theoretical and applied issues of the relationship between institutions and economic growth have thoroughly been examined in ASEAN countries. This study revisits the issue and tests the role of institutions in the economic growth using the World Governance Indicators (WGI) and uses a new method to examine the impact of the various institutions on the economic growth. We used dynam...

Immigrants’ Economic Performance Across Europe - Does Immigration Policy Matter?

Drawing on panel data from the ECHP, the BHPS and the GSOEP, we compare the economic performance of immigrants to Great Britain, West Germany, Denmark, Luxembourg, Ireland, Italy, Spain and Austria to that of the respective indigenous population. Economic performance is measured in terms of the country-specific pre-government income position and change in the relative income position due to red...

Does Education Matter for Economic Growth?

Does Education Matter for Economic Growth? Empirical growth regressions typically include mean years of schooling as a proxy for human capital. However, empirical research often finds that the sign and significance of schooling depends on the sample of observations or the specification of the model. We use a nonparametric local-linear regression estimator and a nonparametric variable relevance ...

Does Economics Matter for/in Economic Geography?

Innovation Leadership, Technological Coherence and Economic Performance

The central research question in this paper is: what is the relationship between the economic performance of the firm and (i) strategies of being a technological leader versus a technological follower, and (ii) strategies of established technological coherence versus novelty in technological combination? We present a quantitative investigation that enables us to formulate some empirically groun...