Search Results - subject:"EMPIRICAL GROWTH LITERATURE"

Macroeconomic Stability and the Distribution of Growth Rates

Sirimaneetham, Vatcharin; Temple, Jonathan R.W. - In: The World Bank Economic Review 23 (2009) 3, pp. 443-479

It is often argued that macroeconomic instability can form a binding constraint on economic growth. Drawing on a new index of stability, threshold estimation is used to divide developing economies into two growth regimes, depending on a threshold level of stability. For the more stable group of...

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What have we learned from a decade of empirical research on growth? Growth Empirics and Reality

Brock, William A.; Durlauf, Steven N. - In: The World Bank Economic Review 15 (2001) 2, pp. 229-271

growth literature is based on assumptions about regressors, residuals, and parameters that are implausible from the …This article questions current empirical practice in the study of growth. It argues that much of the modern empirical …

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What have we learned from a decade of empirical research on growth? Comment on "Growth Empirics and Reality

Pritchett, Lant - In: The World Bank Economic Review 15 (2001) 2, pp. 273-275

proposing a change in the empirical growth literature's fundamental methodology--from model testing to decision theoretic …

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