This paper verifies the possibility of using Infant industry protection strategy to improve manufacturing competitiveness in developing countries. The main theoretical bases of this strategy are: its significant role in creating dynamic comparative advantages in manufacturing sector. This...

This paper develops an invariance condition for the random coefficients regression (RCR) model and thereby: (i) exends the results originally proposed by Rao (1965, 1967); (ii) provides a new proof of the equality of the direct and two-step estimators of the RCR model; and (iii) corrects a...

The purpose of the paper is to present the fundamental equation in tourism finance that connects tourism research to empirical finance and financial econometrics. The energy industry, which includes, oil, gas and bio-energy fuels, together with the tourism industry, are two of the most important...

This note discusses some aspects of the paper by Hu and Tsay (2014), "Principal Volatility Component Analysis". The key issues are considered, and are also related to existing conditional covariance and correlation models. Some caveats are given about multivariate models of time-varying...

The purpose of the paper is to present the fundamental equation in tourism finance that connects tourism research to empirical finance and financial econometrics. The energy industry, which includes, oil, gas and bio-energy fuels, together with the tourism industry, are two of the most important...