Last Night a Shrinkage Saved My Life: Economic Growth, Model Uncertainty and Correlated Regressors

We compare the predictive ability of Bayesian methods which deal simultaneously with model uncertainty and correlated regressors in the framework of cross-country growth regressions. In particular, we assess methods with spike and slab priors combined with different prior specifications for the slop...

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Main Authors: Hofmarcher, Paul, Crespo Cuaresma, Jesus, Grün, Bettina, Hornik, Kurt
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Wiley 2015
Online Access:http://epub.wu.ac.at/4531/1/Hofmarcher_etal_2015_JF_shrinkage.pdf
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/for.2328