Growth outside the stable path: Lessons from the European reconstruction

European Economic Review

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 568-588

  Alvarez Cuadrado, Francisco ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Economic growth; European economic history; Production function; Time non separable preferences

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; CAPITAL; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ECONOMIC HISTORY; MODELING; RECONSTRUCTION; TRANSITIONAL ECONOMY;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 41349092078     PISSN: 00142921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2007.02.003     Document Type: Article

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