that this will lead to a dynamic factor model with the dominant unit acting as the factor. The problems of estimation and … documented by Monte Carlo experiments. An empirical application to modelling of real GDP growth and investment-output ratios … dominant effects are found. The results also suggest that increase in investment as a share of GDP predict higher growth rate …

addition the estimation of the number of factors as well as the factors themselves. Small sample properties of the proposed …

crisis period. Individual economy estimation results, however, show that the Joneses effect varies across economies …

growth across the globe. In a large sample of countries, equality in the distribution of income as measured by the World Bank … and by The Standardized World Income Inequality Database are seen to be correlated with economic diversification, the rule … in the World Values Survey, and democracy, all of which are good for growth as reflected in the purchasing power of per …