The Soviet Economic Decline Revisited

Brendan Beare

Econ Journal Watch, 2008, vol. 5, issue 2, 135-144

Abstract: In this comment I identify a simple error in William Easterly and Stanley Fischer’s econometric study of the postwar Soviet economic growth slowdown. The results of the study change substantially. [Data and code from this research are now available here.]

Keywords: Economic growth; Soviet economy; extensive growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N14 O40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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