Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/39542 
Year of Publication: 
2000
Series/Report no.: 
ZEI Working Paper No. B 13-2000
Publisher: 
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung (ZEI), Bonn
Abstract: 
How many years will the average transition economy need to reach the income level of the average OECD country? The favored methodology in use to answer such questions is referred to as the BLR approach, because it uses specifications from Barro, and Levine and Renelt. The literature has so far refrained from identifying and testing the underlying assumptions of the BLR approach. This paper attempts to fill this gap. Our results contrast sharply with the assumptions and findings from the BLR approach, questioning its might and challenging our understanding of the transition process in its key dimension.
Subjects: 
economic growth
transition economies
growth prospects
JEL: 
E23
O40
P20
P52
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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