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Economic development and the return to human capital: a smooth coefficient semiparametric approach
(2006)
This paper investigates the impact of human capital on the process of economic growth by allowing the contribution of traditional inputs (capital and labour) as well as that of human capital to vary both across countries ...
Is the financial development and economic growth relationship nonlinear?
(2007)
Using nonparametric estimation techniques we find that, in contrast to recent research, the finance-growth relationship is linear when the previously documented nonlinearity between initial per capital income, human capital ...
Measures of human capital and nonlinearities in economic growth
(2001)
In this paper we study the relationship between human capital accumulation and economic growth using various measures of human capital frequently employed by researchers. We use semiparametric estimation techniques to ...
Research spillovers among European and North-American economics departments
(2004)
In this paper, we investigate the determinants of research output by European economics departments. We use data from a survey we conducted on the various characteristics of these departments. We pay particular attention ...