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World Bank projects and generally find that projects that are potentially politically motivated – such as those granted to … governments holding a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council or an Executive Directorship at the World Bank … Council members with higher short-term debt, however, a negative quality rating is more likely. So we find evidence that World …
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-country, two-period trade-theoretic model to develop testable hypotheses and then we use dynamic panel analysis to test those …
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This paper suggests that the weak empirical effect of human capital on growth in existing cross-country studies is partly the result of an inappropriate specification that does not account for the different channels through which human capital affects growth. A systematic replication of earlier...
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World Poll data from over 150 countries, BRFSS data on 2.5 million US respondents, and Eurobarometer data that cover …
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Why are socially beneficial reforms not implemented? One simple answer to this question (which has received little attention in the literature) is that this may be caused by generalized uncertainty about the effectiveness of reforms. If agents are unsure about whether a proposed reform will...
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This paper develops an adaptive learning model under uncertainty that examines evolution of capital account polices over time and across developing regions. In the framework, countries' past experiences and IMF programs influence policymakers' beliefs about the impact of capital account...
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This paper proposes maximum likelihood estimators for panel seemingly unrelated regressions with both spatial lag and … spatial lag dependent variable and where the heterogeneity in the panel is incorporated via an error component specification … spatial autocorrelation and random effects for this spatial SUR panel model. The small sample performance of the proposed …
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This paper proposes a parametric approach to estimating a dynamic binary response panel data model that allows for …
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We study smoking persistence in ten countries using data from the European Community Household Panel. Such persistence … two by using semi-parametric dynamic panel data methods applied to both the decision to smoke or not and to the decision …
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This article develops a Bayesian approach for estimating panel quantile regression with binary outcomes in the presence …
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