Are any growth theories robust?

Economic Journal

Volumn 118, Issue 527, 2008, Pages 329-346

  Durlauf, Steven N ^a,b,c   Kourtellos, Andros ^a,b,c   Tan, Chih Ming ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; ECONOMIC POLICY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GROWTH MODELING; GROWTH THEORY; MACROECONOMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 39649095836     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2007.02123.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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