Unraveling the fortunes of the fortunate: An Iterative Bayesian Model Averaging (IBMA) approach

Journal of Macroeconomics

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 494-514

  Eicher, Theo S ^a,b   Papageorgiou, Chris ^c,d   Roehn, Oliver ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

^d LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Growth determinants of OECD countries; Growth regressions; Iterative bayesian model averaging; Model uncertainty; Parameter heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250380517     PISSN: 01640704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmacro.2007.01.008     Document Type: Article

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