Long-run growth empirics and new challenges for unified theory

Applied Economics

Volumn 45, Issue 28, 2013, Pages 3973-3987

  Greasley, David ^a   Madsen, Jakob B ^b   Wohar, Mark E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

Author keywords

long run economic growth; structural breaks; unified growth theory

Indexed keywords

ECONOMETRICS; ECONOMIC GROWTH; GROWTH THEORY; MACROECONOMICS; PRODUCTIVITY; TIME SERIES;

EID: 84871298649     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2012.741780     Document Type: Article

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