Structural funds are the most intensively used policy instrument by the European Union to promote economic growth in its member states and to speed up the process of convergence. This paper empirically explores the effectiveness of European Structural Funds by means of a panel data analysis for...

This paper examines the Granger causality between total expenditures, own source revenues, grants received from the State and long-term loans for 12 subgroups of Finnish municipalities. Two panel data sets that cover the years 1985-1992 and 1993-1999 are used in order to compare the effect of...

In this paper, we perform an extensive Monte Carlo study of the finite sample properties of different estimators for panel data sample selection models. The estimators investigated are various two-step estimators and maximum likelihood estimators with simultaneous equations for the samle...

Hungarian Abstract: A tőzsdén kereskedett alapok gyors elterjedése és dinamikus növekedése felveti a kérdést, mi áll az egyes kibocsátások sikerének hátterében. A termék speciális szerkezetéből fakadó nyilvánvaló előnyöket megkerülve, ebben a cikkben azt vizsgáltam,...