We provide a fast algorithm to calculate the m-dimensional distance histogram on which Brock, Dechert, and Sheinkman's (1987) BDS-type statistics are based. The algorithm generalizes a fast algorithm due to LeBaron by calculating the histogram for any finite set of distances simultaneously, and...

We provide a fast algorithm to calculate the m-dimensional distance histogram on which Brock, Dechert, and Sheinkman's (1987) BDS-type statistics are based. The algorithm generalizes a fast algorithm due to LeBaron by calculating the histogram for any finite set of distances simultaneously, and...

Summary A dynamic poverty trap model describing long-term human development is defined in the context of endogenous technological change. Increasing returns are not required: market failures and indivisibilities imply a human capital undersupply and hence above-equilibrium returns. Evidence for...

We construct a Schumpeterian growth theory consistent with the divergence in per-capita income that has occurred between countries since the mid 19th Century, and with the convergence that occurred between the richest countries during the second half of the 20th Century. The theory assumes that...

We introduce imperfect creditor protection in a multi-country version of Schumpeterian growth theory with technology transfer. The theory predicts that the growth rate of any country with more than some critical level of financial development will converge to the growth rate of the world...