Reopening the convergence debate: A new look at cross-country growth empirics.

DOI10.1007/BF00141044zbMath1038.91541MaRDI QIDQ5927673

Fernando Lefort, Francesco Caselli, Gerardo Esquivel

Publication date: 1996

Published in: Journal of Economic Growth (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

growthconvergencegeneralized method of moments

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Economic growth models (91B62) Statistical methods; economic indices and measures (91B82)

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