Nkurunziza, Janvier D.; Bates, Robert H. - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2003
The purposes of this paper include (a) a review of the literature on the so-called .African dummy;. (b) an explication of the system GMM method of estimation, by which Hoeffler (2002) shows the .Africa dummy. to be an artifact of the application of inappropriate estimation techniques; and (c) an...