Publication

Has the Lucas Paradox been fully explained?

2013
Céline Azémar ,

2013, Economics Letters, 121(2), pp.183-187

Résumé

Alfaro, Kalemli-Ozcan, and Volosovych (2008) argue that accounting for differences in institutional quality makes the Lucas Paradox disappear. We show that their key finding is driven by the presence of outliers. Once we control for them, we find that the Lucas Paradox remains.