GMM Estimation of Empirical Growth Models.
This Paper highlights a problem in using the first-differenced GMM panel data estimator to estimate cross-country growth regressions. When the time series are persistent, the first-differenced GMM estimator can be poorly behaved, since lagged levels of the series provide only weak instruments for su...
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| 格式: | Working paper |
| 語言: | English |
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CEPR
2001
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