' sources of influence (e.g., lobbying expenditures, proximity to the relevant legislative committee, prior affiliation with … sources of influence in actual regulatory treatment: Lobbying activities are more effective with increasing lobbying …

Lobbying can provide policy makers with important sector-specific information and thereby facilitating informed …

impact of EU structural funds on employment drawing on a panel dataset of 130 European NUTS regions over the time period 1999 … structural funds for an extended time horizon and examine the robustness of our results by comparing different dynamic panel …

the period 1980-2006, and one on the individual euro area countries from1995-2006, using panel data techniques. The impact …, the panel estimation yields somewhat lower results (0.6 to 1.1 cents). The MPC out of nominal housing wealth lies between … effect of volatile house prices, we find similar effects in the times series estimation while the MPC is larger in the panel …

cointegration analysis. Specifically, we use panel unit root tests of the first and second generation allowing in some cases for … structural breaks. We also apply modern panel cointegration techniques developed by Pedroni (1999, 2004), generalized by Banerjee … policy was sustainable both for the EU15 panel set, and within subperiods (1970-1991 and 1992-2006) …

financial (or output) gaps within EU countries. We apply panel techniques, including a Bayesian panel VAR, to 27 EU members over …

This paper uses a panel VAR (PVAR) approach to estimating, analysing, and forecasting price dynamics in four different …

panel model for eleven euro area countries over the last two decades. The results suggest that there is a statistically …

, using recent bootstrap panel cointegration techniques and SUR methods. We investigate the magnitude of the relationship … panel cointegration tests used allow for within and between correlation, while the SUR results show both positive and …