robustness, conclusions vary from 'almost everycorrelation is fragile' to 'a substantial number of explanatory variables are … robustness using quasi-experiments. The analysis pertains to sign, size andsignificance of the effects, and we relax the quasi …

of high quality papers, and quantitative information about a journal. The robustness of the rankings is also analysed. …

. At the same time, there is discussion regarding the robustness of the results of empirical growth studies. In a seminal … paper, Knack and Keefer (1997) assess the effect of trust on growth. This paper analyses the robustness of their results … along several dimensions, acknowledging the complexity of therobustness concept. Our findings show that the robustness of …

distribution. The robustness of the concomitant test statistic is assessed, and four different methods are discussed for applying …

How does risk or uncertainty in the productivity of research affect the growth rate of the economy? To answer this …&D from profit-maximizing firms. The uncertainty arises from the productivity of these investments in R&D. The main result of … this analysis is that the relationship between long-run growth and uncertainty (on the productivity of knowledge creation …

In this paper we perform a meta-analysis on empirical estimates of the impact between investment and uncertainty. Since … can explain to a large extent why empirical estimates of the investment-uncertainty relationship differ. …