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The empirical economic growth literature is criticized for its lack of robustness. For different definitions of … robustness, conclusions vary from "almost every correlation is fragile" to "a substantial number of explanatory variables are … robustness using quasi-experiments. The analysis pertains to sign, size and significance of the effects, and we relax the quasi …
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robustness, conclusions vary from 'almost everycorrelation is fragile' to 'a substantial number of explanatory variables are … robustness using quasi-experiments. The analysis pertains to sign, size andsignificance of the effects, and we relax the quasi …
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Corruption is often a source of contentious debate, covering different areas of knowledge, such as philosophy and sociology. In this paper we assess the effects of corruption on economic activity and highlight the relevance of the size of the government. We use dynamic models and the Generalized...
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This study investigates how governance and infrastructure moderate the effect of natural resource rents on economic growth using a sample of 110 countries, including 47 African countries from 2000 to 2018. The empirical evidence is based on Panel Smooth Transition Regressions(PSTR). The...
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We suggest a robust form of conditional moment test as a constructive test for functional misspecification in multiplicative error models. The proposed test has power solely against violations of the conditional mean restriction but is not affected by any other type of model misspecification....
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elements of model uncertainty, namely theory uncertainty and parameter heterogeneity, by unifying two recent econometric …
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Since the influential survey by Windrum et al. (2007), research on empirical validation of agent-based models in economics has made substantial advances, thanks to a constant flow of high-quality contributions. This Chapter attempts to take stock of such recent literature to offer an updated...
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