Sharp Instrument : A Stab at Identifying the Causes of Economic Growth /

We shed new light on the determinants of growth by tackling the blunt and weak instrument problems in the empirical growth literature. As an instrument for each endogenous variable, we propose average values of the same variable in neighboring countries. This method has the advantage of producing va...

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Huvudupphovsman: Cherif, Reda
Övriga upphovsmän: Hasanov, Fuad, Wang, Lichen
Materialtyp: Tidskrift
Språk:English
Publicerad: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2018.
Serie:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2018/117
Länkar:Full text available on IMF
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