Long-Run Growth Forecasting

Long-Run Growth Forecasting

المؤلف
Stefan Bergheim
سنة النشر
2008
الناشر
Springer
لغة الملف
انكليزي
نوع الملف
Book
تصنيف الكتاب
Business Administration

Explores how to set up an empirical model that helps with forecasting long-term economic growth in a large number of countries. It offers a systematic approach to models of potential GDP that can also be used for forecasts of more than a decade. It is an attempt to fill the wide gap between the high demand for such models by commercial banks, international organizations, central banks and governments on the one hand and the limited supply on the other hand. Frequent forecast failures in the past (e.g. Japan 1990, Asia 1997) and the heavy economic losses they produced motivated the work. The book assesses the large number of different theories of economic growth, the drivers of economic growth, the available datasets and the empirical methods on offer. A preference is shown for evolutionary models and an augmented Kaldor model. The book uses non-stationary panel techniques to find pair-wise cointegration among GDP per capita and its main correlates such as physical capital, human capital and openness.


الكلمات المفتاحية: Business and Economics / Development / Forecasting / Panel techniques / Economic growth / Growth