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A general approach to recovering market expectations from futures prices with an application to crude oil

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Determinants of Long-Term Growth : A Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE) Approach

Doppelhofer, Gernot - 2000

This paper examines the robustness of explanatory variables in cross-country economic growth regressions. It employs a novel approach, Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE), which constructs estimates as a weighted average of OLS estimates for every possible combination of included...

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International Trade and Per Capita Income Convergence : A Difference-in-Differences Analysis

Slaughter, Matthew J. - 1998

In this paper I analyze whether international trade contributes to per capita income convergence across countries. The analysis focuses on four important post-1945 multilateral trade liberalizations. To identify trade's effect on income dispersion, in each case I use a difference-in-differences'...

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Per Capita Income Convergence and the Role of International Trade

Slaughter, Matthew J. - 1997

reason might be perspective. Most convergence papers frame the analysis in a `Solow world' in which countries exist … independent of one another. But most international trade economists have a very different perspective of a world in which … theory. The key point here is that countries trading is not sufficient proof that trade helps cause per capita income …

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