Browsing Faculté des arts et des sciences – Département de sciences économiques - Travaux et publications by Subject "growth"

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  • Exact Tests for Contemporaneous Correlation of Disturbances in Seemingly Unrelated Regressions 

    Dufour, Jean Marie; Khalaf, Lynda (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2000)
    This paper proposes finite-sample procedures for testing the SURE specification in multi-equation regression models, i.e. whether the disturbances in different equations are contemporaneously uncorrelated or not. We apply the technique of Monte Carlo ...

  • Religion and Economic Growth: Was Weber Right? 

    Blum, Ulrich; Dudley, Léonard (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2001)
    Evidence of falling wages in Catholic cities and rising wages in Protestant cities between 1500 and 1750, during the spread of literacy in the vernacular, is inconsistent with most theoretical models of economic growth. In The Protestant Ethic, Weber ...