Do all countries grow alike?

Journal of Development Economics

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 113-127

  Bos, J W B ^a   Economidou, C ^a   Koetter, M ^b,c   Kolari, J W ^d  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c DEUTSCHE BUNDESBANK   (Germany)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Frontier analysis; Growth; Latent class; Regimes; Stochastic

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE; DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS; ECONOMIC GROWTH; MODELING; STOCHASTICITY; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY;

EID: 70349869350     PISSN: 03043878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2009.07.006     Document Type: Article

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