In light of calls to improve the delivery of aid and debt relief, this paper uses survival analysis to examine possible factors affecting completion rates in the HIPC debt relief programme. The findings suggest that better economic management, increased economic, social and media freedoms, more...

Migrant's remittances are a growing source of foreign funds for several developing countries including Pakistan. Despite a burgeoning body of literature and growing interest in migrants' remittances and its impact on recipient's economies, relatively little work exists on the business cycle...

The aim of this paper is to present a new empirical regularity in world income distribution using cross-country panel data, 1960-2001. It shows the fact that the real cross-country GDP per capita is significantly approximated to a geometric sequence, and that its common ratio is decreasing...

The aim of this paper is to present a new empirical regularity in world income distribution using cross-country panel data, 1960-2001. It shows the fact that the real cross-country GDP per capita is significantly approximated to a geometric sequence, and that its common ratio is decreasing...

From the perspective of recipients, the presence of emerging donors in the aid landscape represents an opportunity to attract additional resources to finance development. This paper investigates how low income countries deal with this complex and changing aid landscape and explore how this...

This article tackles one central issue in the regional science literature: the persistence of regional disparities in unemployment within national economies. Our approach is original as Okun's coefficients are estimated for each of the 22 administrative French regions over the period...

Empirical studies use the total area as a measure of land factor. This measure is flawed as it ignores the effectiveness of that total area. We develop an estimator of effective area based on spatial population distribution. The empirical application for the OECD countries highlights the...

This paper explores the population distribution across U.S. states over time. We test for Zipf's Law on the size distribution of state populations and Gibrat's Law for the growth of state populations. State populations follow a lognormal distribution more closely than they do a Zipf or Pareto...

In the two-country Melitz (2003) model, unilateral trade liberalization is often cast as a reduction of iceberg transportation costs and wages are determined by a linear outside sector. We show that welfare results reverse when wages adjust and trade frictions are revenue-generating tariffs.

We studied how links are formed according to the distance in transaction network of 800,000 firms. We investigated the inter-firm transaction network of $800,000$ firms in Japan. They are almost all firms in Japan. As far as we know, scale-freeness, hierarchy, and degree-degree correlation were...