Growth and convergence: a multi-country empirical analysis of the solow growth model
Lee, K. and Pesaran, M.H. and Smith, Ron P. (1995) Growth and convergence: a multi-country empirical analysis of the solow growth model. Working Paper. Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.
Abstract
The paper considers international per capita output and its growth using a panel of data for 102 countries between 1960 and 1989. It sets out an explicitly stochastic Solow growth model and shows that this has quite different properties from the standard approach where the output equation is obtained by adding an error term to the linearized solution of a deterministic Solow model. It examines the econometric properties of estimates of beta convergence as traditionally defined in the literature and shows that all these estimates are subject to substantial biases. Our empirical estimates clearly reflect the nature and the magnitude of these biases as predicted by econometric theory. Steady state growth rates differ significantly across countries and once this heterogeneity is allowed for the estimates of beta are substantially higher than the consensus in the literature. But they are very imprecisely estimated and difficult to interpret. The paper also discusses the economic implications of these results for sigma convergence.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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| Additional Information: | Cambridge Working Papers in Economics, number 9531 |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Business School |
| Depositing User: | Sarah Hall |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Oct 2020 18:12 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 18:04 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/41089 |
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