The cross-country growth literature commonly uses aggregate economy datasets such as the Penn World Table (PWT) to estimate homogeneous production function or convergence regression models. Against the background of a dual economy framework this paper investigates the potential bias arising when...

This book presents econometric methods for the analysis of event counts. It reviews the recent literature and introduces several new results. While the emphasis is on methods for cross-section data, the modelling of time series and panel count data is discussed as well. Topics include: dependent...