Rigorous analysis of the previously centrally planned economies (PCPEs) is one of the most important but at the same time difficult tasks currently facing macroeconomists. We develop applied techniques appropriate to situations typically faced by Western analysts of PCPEs, as well as by...

This paper provides a survey and synthesis of econometric tools that have been employed to study economic growth. While these tools range across a variety of statistical methods, they are united in the common goals of first, identifying interesting contemporaneous patterns in growth data and...