1st Short Course: “Empirical Methods in Economic Growth” (July 3-6, 2013)
Course Description The course will be combining a thorough review of the literature (both theoretical and empirical) along with state-of-the-art econometric analysis of the issues. The course will include in the empirical part a self-contained discussion of nonparametric techniques and their application to estimating nonlinearities in human capital and economic growth. The issue of nonlinearities