Author/Editor: Robert Blotevogel, Eslem Imamoglu, Kenji Moriyama, Babacar Sarr.

Release Date:August, 2020

We study the channels that theoretically transmit the effects of inequality to economic growth, unlike much of the existing literature that focuses on the direct linkage. The role of inequality in more...

Author/Editor: Sami Ben Naceur, Robert Blotevogel, Mark Fischer, Haiyan Shi.

Release Date:June, 2017

This paper examines how financial development affects the sources of growth—productivity and investment—using a sample of 145 countries for the period 1960-2011. We employ a range of econometric more...

Author/Editor: Robert Blotevogel.

Release Date:March, 2013

I propose a new approach to identifying exogenous monetary policy shocks in low-income countries with capital account restrictions. In the case of Mauritania, a domestic repatriation requirement is more...