We analyze the influence of IMF and World Bank programs on political regime transitions. We develop an extended version … have taken place. We test this unexplored implication of the theory empirically. We find in a world sample from 1970 to … transitions ; democracy ; autocracy ; IMF ; World Bank …

We revisit the relationship between financial development and economic growth in a panel of 52 middle income countries … over the 1980-2008 period, using pooled mean group estimator in a dynamic heterogeneous panel setting. We show that …

using time series data from 1980 to 2004. We first estimate a panel data model (using fixed and random effects) for the real … of real exchange rate misalignment using panel cointegration methods. The variables used in our real exchange rate models …-step System GMM panel growth models indicate that the coefficients for real exchange rate misalignment are positive for different …

the period from 2000 to 2021 using dynamic panel data models. The estimation results provide evidence of significant …

This paper employs a panel vector autoregressive model for the member countries of the Euro Area to explore the role of … characterized by a considerable degree of cross-country heterogeneity. -- Euro Area ; panel vector autoregressive model ; sign …

This paper investigates the long-run economic relationship between health care expenditure and income in the world … using data on 167 countries over the period 1995-2012, collected from the World Bank data set. The analysis is carried using … panel data methods that allow one to account for unobserved heterogeneity, temporal persistence, and crosssection dependence …