certain proportion of outliers. Besides robustness, efficiency is another desirable property. Researchers try to find … robustness and efficiency of a class of estimators that we call [subscript n]C[subscript k ]estimators are investigated. Special …

. 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 …