Determinants of long-term growth: New results applying robust estimation and extreme bounds analysis

Empirical Economics

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 597-617

  Sturm, Jan Egbert ^a,b,c   de Haan, Jakob ^d,e  

^a Swiss Institute for Business Cycle Research   (Switzerland)

^b University of Konstanz and Thurgau Institute of Economics   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^e CESIFO   (Germany)

Author keywords

Economic growth; Outliers; Robust estimation; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY; ECONOMIC GROWTH; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 22444445419     PISSN: 03777332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00181-005-0252-x     Document Type: Article

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