or physician. However, this level of analysis is mostly limited to the use of in-hospital mortality rates and is …-outcome relationship on a regional (county or cancer registry) level. Using data from the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance …, Epidemiology and End Results program we find that regions with relatively more of the same cancer type exhibit relatively better …

methodology is presented, and via a large set of prediction experiments using the panel dataset of Stock and Watson (2005). One of …

incentives. We study how three changes in Swedish inheritance taxation 2004-2005 have affected daily all-cause mortality. Our … first main result is that mortality decreased by 16 percent the day before the beginning of expected tax reductions. Second …

The most popular approach to modelling and forecasting mortality rates is the model of Lee and Carter (Modeling and … Forecasting U. S. Mortality, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 87, 659–671, 1992). The popularity of the model …

This paper applies the recently developed maximum-likelihood-panel cointegration method of Larsson and Lyhagen (2007 …

is important to control for endogeneity and dynamics in empirical work. Using a panel of 266 Swedish municipalities over …

paper uses Panel Least Squares method to empirically analyze the impact of industrial sector FDI on Chinese regional …

original setting of one vector time series in a panel setting with N individual vector series. We consider asymptotics with …

sector due to EU accession, coincided with the global deregulation of banking activities. Our estimation results, which are … based on dynamic panel regression methods, indicate that disintermediation (a lower percentage of loans over total assets …