We make use of a bootstrap panel analysis of causality between energy use and economic growth for a sample of sixteen … African countries over the period 1988-2010. Our results show that growth and energy use are strongly linked in Africa … may work for all countries in Africa …

Using high-resolution data from Africa over the period 1998-2012, this paper investigates the hypothesis that a higher … exposure to malaria increases the incidence of civil violence. The analysis uses panel data at the 1o grid cell level at … monthly frequency. The econometric identification exploits exogenous monthly within-grid-cell variation in weather conditions …

panel of 145 countries during the period 1970-2007. The main finding is that windfalls from international commodity price …

dynamic panel including annual data for 119 countries over the period 1970-2010, and also carry out multivariate Granger …

the estimation of long-run effects in dynamic heterogeneous panel data models with cross-sectionally dependent errors. The …

and economic growth. We make use of a Johansen-based panel cointegration methodology allowing for cross-country dependence …

develop tests for threshold effects in the context of dynamic heterogeneous panel data models with cross-sectionally dependent …

productivity is difficult to investigate at a micro level, the paper builds on a large macro-data panel covering developed as well …

using time series data from 1980 to 2004. We first estimate a panel data model (using fixed and random effects) for the real … of real exchange rate misalignment using panel cointegration methods. The variables used in our real exchange rate models …-step System GMM panel growth models indicate that the coefficients for real exchange rate misalignment are positive for different …

In the first part of the paper we look at economic growth in Africa over the past three decades. We divide the past …. During the first period, Africa did not catch up but lost ground, Africa's average per capita income declined. Since the mid … growth rates for Africa and several individual countries. We use the Hodrick-Prescott filter with different values for the …