dc.contributor.advisor | Sperlich, Stefan Prof. Dr. | de |
dc.contributor.author | Köhler, Max | de |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-05-25T16:03:06Z | de |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-01-18T13:53:28Z | de |
dc.date.available | 2013-01-30T23:51:15Z | de |
dc.date.issued | 2012-05-25 | de |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1735-0000-000D-F09D-D | de |
dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.53846/goediss-3012 | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | de |
dc.language.iso | eng | de |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ | de |
dc.title | Econometric studies on flexible modeling of developing countries in growth analysis | de |
dc.type | doctoralThesis | de |
dc.title.translated | Ökonometrische Studien über Wachstumsanalysen von Entwicklungsländern | de |
dc.contributor.referee | Sperlich, Stefan Prof. Dr. | de |
dc.date.examination | 2012-05-02 | de |
dc.subject.dnb | 330 Wirtschaft | de |
dc.subject.gok | Wachstumsregression | de |
dc.description.abstracteng | Over the last four decades, several
methods for selecting the smoothing parameter, generally called the
bandwidth, have been introduced in kernel regression. They differ
quite a bit, and although there already exist more selection
methods than for any other regression smoother we can still see
coming up new ones. Given the need of automatic data-driven
bandwidth selectors for applied statistics, this review is intended
to explain and compare these methods. The Africa-Dummy has been
identified and different explanations for its appearance have been
published. In this paper, the issue of the empirical identification
of the Africa-Dummy is addressed. We introduce a fixed effects
regression model to identify the Africa-Dummy in one regression
step so that its correlations to other coefficients can be
estimated. A semiparametric extension of this model checks whether
the Africa-Dummy is a result of misspecification of the functional
structure. Furthermore, we show that sub-Saharan African countries
have a positive return to the population growth and when adding
interaction effects, the Africa-Dummy is even positive. Moreover,
we show that the Africa-Dummy changes dramatically over time and
the punishment for sub-Saharan African countries decreases
incrementally since the mid-nineties. According to the Augmented
Solow Growth model, it was even insignificant since the
end-nineties. Various papers demonstrate the importance of
inequality, poverty and the size of the middle class for economic
growth. When explaining why these measures of the income
distribution are added to the growth regression, it is often
mentioned that poor people behave different than rich people which
translates to the economy as a whole. However, adding explanatory
variables does not reflect this behavior. We formulate and apply a
variable-coefficients model and show that the coefficients of the
growth regressions differ a lot and this can be explained by the
level of poverty, inequality and the middle class. Furthermore, we
investigate how the coefficients and therefore the growth path
differs for the poorer and for the richer part of the society. We
argue that the differences in the coefficients impeach, on the one
hand, the credibility of that the mean coefficients are
informative, and, on the other hand, the credibility of the
economic justification for explaining the growth path of a country
with mean coefficients. Moreover, we explain that, when estimating
mean coefficients, the estimation is likely to suffer from an
endogeneity and from a sample selection bias. | de |
dc.contributor.coReferee | Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada Prof. Dr. | de |
dc.contributor.thirdReferee | Kneib, Thomas Prof. Dr. | de |
dc.subject.topic | Economics | de |
dc.subject.ger | Nichtparametrische Regression | de |
dc.subject.ger | Ökonomisches Wachstum | de |
dc.subject.ger | Paneldaten | de |
dc.subject.eng | Nonparametric Regression | de |
dc.subject.eng | Economic Growth | de |
dc.subject.eng | Panel Data | de |
dc.subject.bk | Ökonomisches Wachstum | de |
dc.identifier.urn | urn:nbn:de:gbv:7-webdoc-3526-1 | de |
dc.identifier.purl | webdoc-3526 | de |
dc.affiliation.institute | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät | de |
dc.identifier.ppn | 720244692 | de |