Background: This study examines the relationship between insurance market density (IMD) and economic growth. Methods: We employed Granger causality technique in 19 Eurozone countries for the period 1980-2014. We use three different indicators of IMD, namely life insurance density, non-life...

This paper examines the causal relationship between insurance market penetration and per capita economic growth in 19 Eurozone countries for the period 1980-2014. We use three different indicators of insurance market penetration (IMP), namely life insurance penetration, non-life insurance...

The paper examines the long-run relationship between innovation and per capita economic growth in the 19 European countries over the period 1989-2014. This study uses six different indicators of innovation: patents-residents, patents-non-residents, research and development expenditure,...