Determinants of Long-Term Growth: A Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (Bace) Approach

This paper examines the robustness of explanatory variables in cross-country economic growth regressions. It employs a novel approach, Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE), which constructs estimates as a weighted average of OLS estimates for every possible combination of included variab...

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Main Author: Doppelhofer, Gernot (Author)
Other Authors: Miller, Ronald I.. (Contributor), Sala-i-Martin, Xavier (Contributor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Paris OECD Publishing 2000
Series:OECD Economics Department Working Papers
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Summary:This paper examines the robustness of explanatory variables in cross-country economic growth regressions. It employs a novel approach, Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE), which constructs estimates as a weighted average of OLS estimates for every possible combination of included variables. The weights applied to individual regressions are justified on Bayesian grounds in a way similar to the well-known Schwarz criterion. Of 32 explanatory variables we find 11 to be robustly partially correlated with long-term growth and another five variables to be marginally related. Of all the variables considered, the strongest evidence is for the initial level of real GDP per capita ...
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (44 Seiten) 21 x 29.7cm
DOI:10.1787/834681262223

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