Department: Economics.

C<sc>respo</sc> C<sc>uaresma</sc> J., D<sc>oppelhofer</sc> G. and F<sc>eldkircher</sc> M. The determinants of economic growth in European regions, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. This paper uses Bayesian model averaging (BMA) to find robust determinants of economic growth between 1995 and 2005 in a new data set of 255 European regions. It finds...

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...