Do trade reforms that significantly reduce import barriers lead to faster economic growth? In
the twenty-five years since Rodríguez and Rodrik's (2000) critical survey of empirical work …

Economic growth is often episodic but the ultimate drivers of such growth accelerations are
not understood very well. We therefore take a different perspective and investigate what …

This paper provides an analytic review of selected contributions to the study of institutions
and economic growth. We review the contributions to the study of institutional determinants …

This study provides innovative forecasts of the probabilities of certain scenarios of tourism
demand. The scenarios of interest are constructed in relation to tourism growth and …

In this paper, a new approach to disclose the impact of politics on economic growth is
presented: data derived from content analysis of party manifestos is used as measures of …

This paper examines whether major output collapses are more likely under autocracy. Using
data on 123 developing countries over 1971–2016, we model the joint evolution of output …

This paper examines systematically the growth effects of trade integration in Sub-Saharan
Africa. It complements and improves upon the empirical literature in two aspects: first, it …

This chapter explores whether economic sanctions are able to trigger sudden economic
growth collapses. The primarily aim of economic sanctions is to cause a political or …

This paper studies how the level of international reserves affects the maturity structure of
external debt. We show in an illustrative theoretical model that reserves lengthen the …

Rapid and sustained accelerations in economic growth can have huge implications for
poverty alleviation and people's wellbeing, but does the economic profession have the …