Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/49538
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Economics Discussion Papers No. 2011-37
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of empirical cross-country growth literature. The paper begins with describing the basic framework used in recent empirical cross-country growth research. Even though this literature was mainly inspired by endogenous growth theories, the neoclassical growth model is still the workhorse for cross-country growth empirics. The second part of the paper emphasises model uncertainty, which is indeed immense but generally neglected in the empirical cross-country growth literature. The most outstanding feature of the literature is that a large number of factors have been suggested as fundamental growth determinants. Together with the small sample property, this leads to an important problem: model uncertainty. The questions which factors are more fundamental in explaining growth dynamics and hence growth differences are still the subject of academic research. Recent attempts based on general-to-specific modeling or model averaging are promising but have their own limits. Finally, the paper highlights the implications of model uncertainty for policy evaluation.
Subjects: 
Economic growth
convergence
cross-country growth
regression
model uncertainty
policy evaluation
JEL: 
O40
O47
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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