Foreign aid, domestic savings, and growth in LDCs: An application of likelihood-based panel cointegration

Economic Modelling

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 616-627

  Irandoust, Manuchehr ^a   Ericsson, Johan ^b  

^a ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Domestic savings; Economic growth; Foreign aid; Panel cointegration; Panel unit root tests; Rank tests

Indexed keywords

EID: 22544476492     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2004.03.004     Document Type: Article

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