How to measure the unobservable: A panel technique for the analysis of TFP convergence

Oxford Economic Papers

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 343-368

  Di Liberto, Adriana ^a   Pigliaru, Francesco ^a   Mura, Roberto ^b  

^a Università di Cagliari and Crenos   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE; ESTIMATION METHOD; HUMAN CAPITAL; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PANEL DATA; REGIONAL ECONOMY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

LUMPY SKIN DISEASE VIRUS;

EID: 41349118594     PISSN: 00307653     EISSN: 14643812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oep/gpm022     Document Type: Article

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