A method for using panel data to evaluate growth theories is formulated. This method enables endogenous growth models predicting that countries have different trend growth rates to be tested against exogenous growth models predicting that countries have parallel growth paths. This method is...

This paper deals with hypothesis testing in vector autoregressive (VAR) models that may contain some unit roots. We consider situations in which the researcher's goal is not detecting the presence (absence) of unit roots or their location (i.e. cointegrating relations), but testing some economic...

We analyse the contribution of land to production activity for Japanese manufacturing industries employing panel data of the firms. Since land is not necessarily held for production purpose, we check the concavity of the cost function to see whether production is conducted efficiently.