Updated February 2001
Introductory reading
Caselli, F., Esquivel, G. and Lefort, F. (1996). Reopening the convergence debate: a new look at cross-country growth empirics, Journal of Economic Growth, September, 1(3), 363-90.
Islam, N. (1995). Growth empirics: a panel data approach. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 110, 1127-1170.
Further reading
Bassanini, Andrea, Scarpetta, Stefano and Hemmings, Philip (2001). Economic growth: the role of policies and institutions. Panel data evidence from OECD countries. OECD Economics working paper no. 283.
Benhabib, Jess and Spiegel, Mark (1997). Cross-country growth regressions. C. V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, NYU, research report 97-20.
Duffy, John and Papageorgiou, Christopher (1999). A cross-country empirical investigation of the aggregate production function specification. Journal of Economic Growth, 5(1), March, 87-120.
Easterly, William, Norman Loayza and Montiel, Peter (1997). Has Latin America’s post-reform growth been disappointing? Journal of International Economics, 43(3-4), November, 287-311.
Evans, Paul (1998). Using panel data to evaluate growth theories. International Economic Review, 39(2), May, 295-306.
Evans, Paul and Karras, Georgios (1996). Do economies converge? Evidence from a panel of US states. Review of Economics and Statistics, 78(3), August, 384-388.
Evans, Paul and Karras, Georgios (1996). Are government activities productive? Evidence from a panel of US states. Review of Economics and Statistics, 76(1), February, 1-11.
Knight, Malcolm, Norman Loayza and Delano Villaneuva (1993). Testing the neoclassical theory of economic growth: a panel data approach. IMF Staff Papers, 40(3), 512-541.
Lee, Kevin; Pesaran, M. Hashem, and Smith, Ron (1997). Growth and convergence in a multi-country empirical stochastic Solow model. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 12(4), July-August, 357-392.
Lee, Kevin; Pesaran, M. Hashem, and Smith, Ron (1998). Growth empirics: a panel data approach – a comment. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 113(1), February, 319-323.
Lee, Michael; Longmire, Ritchard; Matyas, Laszlo, and Harris, Mark (1998). Growth convergence: some panel data evidence. Applied Economics, 30(7), July, 907-912.