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Empirics for economic growth and convergence

Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1995

The convergence hypothesis has generated a huge empirical literature: this paper critically reviews some of the earlier … interpreting convergence empirics. The main ndings are: (1) The much-heralded uniform 2% rate of convergence could arise for … reasons unrelated to the dynamics of economic growth. (2) Usual empirical analyses|cross-section (conditional) convergence …

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Cross-country growth empirics and model uncertainty: An overview

Ulaşan, Bülent - 2011

The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of empirical cross-country growth literature. The paper begins with describing the basic framework used in recent empirical cross-country growth research. Even though this literature was mainly inspired by endogenous growth theories, the...

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Cross-country growth empirics and model uncertainty: An overview

Ulaşan, Bülent - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

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Convergence in Carbon Emissions Per Capita

Stegman, Alison - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 2005

In late 2003 and early 2004 the Economic Society of Australia surveyed the Heads of Economics Departments in Australia to determine their views on three main issues: student standards, major factors affecting these standards, and policy implications. This paper describes the main results of the...

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The Impact of Natural resources, CO2 Emission, Energy use, Domestic Investment, Innovation, Trade and Digitalization on Economic growth: Evidence from 52 African Countries

Bakari, Sayef - 2022

The aim of this paper is to examine the impact of natural resources, CO2 emission, energy use, domestic investment, innovation, trade, and digitalization on economic growth in the case of 52 African Countries. To attempt our goal, we used annual data of 52 African countries for the period 1996...

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Income, Mortality, and Literacy Distribution Dynamics Across States in Mexico: 1940-2000

Verdú, Rodrigo García - In: Latin American Journal of Economics-formerly Cuadernos … 42 (2005) 125, pp. 165-192

rate, and the adult literacy rate across states in Mexico between 1994 and 2000. It analyzes the hypothesis of convergence …

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Regime-dependent nowcasting of the Austrian economy

Fortin, Ines; Hlouskova, Jaroslava - 2023

We nowcast and forecast Austrian economic activity, namely real gross domestic product (GDP), consumption and investment, which are available at a quarterly frequency. While nowcasting uses data up to (and including) the quarter to be predicted, forecasting uses only data up to the previous...

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Can we beat the Random Walk? The case of survey-based exchange rate forecasts in Chile

Pincheira, Pablo; Neumann, Federico - 2018

We examine the accuracy of survey-based expectations of the Chilean exchange rate relative to the US dollar. Our out-of-sample analysis reveals that survey-based forecasts outperform the Driftless Random Walk (DRW) in terms of Mean Squared Prediction Error at several forecasting horizons. This...

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Regime-dependent nowcasting of the Austrian economy

Fortin, Ines; Hlouskova, Jaroslava - 2023

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GDP nowcasting : a machine learning and remote sensing data-based approach for Bolivia

Bolivar, Osmar - In: Latin American journal of central banking : LAJCB 5 (2024) 3, pp. 1-25

This research introduces an innovative GDP nowcasting strategy tailored for developing countries, specifically addressing challenges related to limited data timeliness. The study centers on Bolivia, where the official monthly indicator of economic growth is released with a substantial delay of...

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