Some recent studies of the relationship between investment (or saving) and growth have found an absence of positive causality from the latter to the former. This finding poses a puzzle for growth theory and relies on groups of countries obeying a constant growth equation for its robustness. In this paper I investigate the causality from investment to GDP using postwar time-series data from the ...

This paper studies the relationship between public debt and economic growth for selected emerging markets performing panel data estimations. Several regressor variables are included, but the main focus is on public debt. The results reveal a significant positive correlation between public debt and the subsequent growth rate of per capita GDP. Population and investment also yield a significant p...

we apply the two-sector production function developed by ram (1986) to estimate the threshold regression model for iran, concerning the effect of government size on economic growth. three government size indicators are used to find out the different threshold points. the results show a non-linear relationship of the armey curve in iran, in which the threshold effects corresponding to total gove...

Peritoneal dialysis is limited by morphologic changes of the peritoneal membrane. Use of peritoneal dialysis fluids (PDF) that contain glucose degradation products (GDP) generates advanced glycation end-products (AGE) within the peritoneal cavity. It is unknown whether peritoneal damage is causally related to AGE-receptor for AGE (RAGE) interaction. The effects of PDF were compared with differe...

In this paper, I develop a new measure of human capital stock that has two advantages over previous measures. First, it allows for the fact that the cost of education varies across time, countries, and levels. Second, the unit of measurement is dollars, which allows comparison of human capital stocks with other macroeconomic variables, including national income (GDP) and physical capital stocks...

We assess recent Chinese climate policy proposals in a multi‐region, multi‐sector computable general equilibrium model with a Chinese carbon emissions trading scheme (ETS). When the emissions intensity per GDP in 2020 is required to be 45% lower than in 2005, the model simulations indicate that the climate policy‐ induced welfare loss in 2020, measured as the level of GD...

This paper explores the relationship between special-interest groups and volatility of GDP growth. In an unbalanced panel of 108 countries, we find a significant negative relationship between the number of interest groups in a country and the volatility of GDP growth. Citation: Coates, Dennis, Jac Heckelman, and Bonnie Wilson, (2007) "Special-Interest Groups and Volatility." Economics Bulletin,...

The activities of three Rab-specific factors with GDP/GTP exchange activity, Vps9p, Rabex-5 and DSS4, with their cognate GTPases, Ypt51p, Rab5 and Ypt1p, have been analysed quantitatively. In contrast to other exchange factors examined and to DSS4, Vps9p, and by analogy probably Rabex-5, have considerably lower affinity than GDP to the respective GTPases. In keeping with this, they are relative...

We study the determinants of voting outcomes on the provision of public consumption through marginal income taxes in the context of the simple linear growth model. We focus on how the dynamic politicoeconomic equilibrium maps the economic fundamentals to policies and long-run growth. We find that in a deterministic growth environment voters internalize, although imperfectly, the deadweight loss...