Growth Empirics without Parameters

Economic Journal

Volumn 122, Issue 559, 2012, Pages 125-154

  Henderson, Daniel J ^a   Papageorgiou, Chris ^b   Parmeter, Christopher F ^c  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; ECONOMIC THEORY; MODEL TEST; NONLINEARITY; PARAMETERIZATION; THEORETICAL STUDY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84857997571     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2011.02460.x     Document Type: Article

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