paper estimates growth effects, using a panel of 80-100 countries from 1960 to 1995. It also looks at the determinants of …

introduction to the Old World from the Americas, to estimate the impact of potatoes on Old World population and urbanization. Our … urbanization observed during the 18th and 19th centuries …

Could urbanization lead to more democracy and better government for the mega-cities of the developing world? This paper …. Urbanization may improve the quality of poor-world governments, but more research is needed to draw that conclusion … reviews three channels through which urbanization may generate political change. First, cities facilitate coordinated public …

This study presents a general methodology for fitting multiple time series models to panel data. The basic statistical … panel data, and it identifies those instances in which procedures found in the time series literature cannot be directly … applied to analyze longitudinal data. Data analysis techniques in the tine series literature are adapted for panel data …

This paper investigates the impact of stock markets and banks on economic growth using a panel data set for the period …

examine the frequency of large, sudden increases in market value in a broad panel data of world equity markets extending from …

panel dataset for public and private companies based on the administrative micro-dataset ORBIS, provided commercially by … structure for over 130 million companies across the world. Researchers need to overcome several challenges before making the …