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Quantitative Aspects of Post-war European Economic Growth

Interest in growth theory has reawakened since the middle of the 1980s, but it is some time since a comparative exercise has been carried out. Armed with new theoretical ideas and with the empirical evidence since 1950, this volume explores the catch-up and convergence evidence on European growth on a cross-sectional basis. Individual chapters cover macroeconomic accounts, national accounts by industry, measures of fixed capital stocks, technology indicators, human capital, total factor productivity, and changes in trend rates of growth, and each assesses the pitfalls, benefits and implications of the methods used. The result is an authoritative quantitative account of the dimensions of European economic growth within an explicitly internationally comparative framework.

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Van Ark, B and N Crafts (eds) (1997), ‘Quantitative Aspects of Post-war European Economic Growth‘, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/quantitative-aspects-post-war-european-economic-growth

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Van Ark, B and N Crafts (1997), ‘Catch-up, convergence and the sources of post-war European growth: introduction and overview‘, in Van Ark, B and N Crafts (eds), Quantitative Aspects of Post-war European Economic Growth, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/quantitative-aspects-post-war-european-economic-growth

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Maddison, A (1997), ‘Macroeconomic accounts for European countries‘, in Van Ark, B and N Crafts (eds), Quantitative Aspects of Post-war European Economic Growth, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/quantitative-aspects-post-war-european-economic-growth

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Van Ark, B (1997), ‘Sectoral growth accounting and structural change in post-war Europe‘, in Van Ark, B and N Crafts (eds), Quantitative Aspects of Post-war European Economic Growth, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/quantitative-aspects-post-war-european-economic-growth

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O'Mahony, M (1997), ‘Measures of fixed capital stocks in the post-war period: a five-country study‘, in Van Ark, B and N Crafts (eds), Quantitative Aspects of Post-war European Economic Growth, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/quantitative-aspects-post-war-european-economic-growth

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Verspagen, B (1997), ‘Technology indicators and economic growth in the European area: some empirical evidence‘, in Van Ark, B and N Crafts (eds), Quantitative Aspects of Post-war European Economic Growth, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/quantitative-aspects-post-war-european-economic-growth

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Wagner, K and S Broadberry (1997), ‘Human capital and productivity in manufacturing during the twentieth century: Britain, Germany and the United States‘, in Van Ark, B and N Crafts (eds), Quantitative Aspects of Post-war European Economic Growth, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/quantitative-aspects-post-war-european-economic-growth

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Broadberry, S (1997), ‘Convergence: what the historical record shows‘, in Van Ark, B and N Crafts (eds), Quantitative Aspects of Post-war European Economic Growth, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/quantitative-aspects-post-war-european-economic-growth

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Domenech, R, C Molinas and J Andrés (1997), ‘Growth and convergence in OECD countries: a closer look‘, in Van Ark, B and N Crafts (eds), Quantitative Aspects of Post-war European Economic Growth, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/quantitative-aspects-post-war-european-economic-growth

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Van Schaik, T and T van de Klundert (1997), ‘On the historical continuity of the process of economic growth‘, in Van Ark, B and N Crafts (eds), Quantitative Aspects of Post-war European Economic Growth, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/quantitative-aspects-post-war-european-economic-growth

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Mills, T and N Crafts (1997), ‘Europe's Golden Age: an econometric investigation of changing trend rates of growth‘, in Van Ark, B and N Crafts (eds), Quantitative Aspects of Post-war European Economic Growth, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/quantitative-aspects-post-war-european-economic-growth

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Van Ark, B (1997), ‘Convergence and divergence in the European periphery: productivity in Eastern and Southern Europe in retrospect‘, in Van Ark, B and N Crafts (eds), Quantitative Aspects of Post-war European Economic Growth, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/quantitative-aspects-post-war-european-economic-growth