In a recent paper, Colombier (2009) uses a robust estimation technique and claims to find empirical evidence that government size has not been detrimental to growth for OECD countries during the 1970 to 2001 period, and that endogenous growth theory is not corroborated. We examine the robustness...

The paper examines the impact of development activities on water pollution in Malaysia. Hence, the main objective of this paper is not just to examine the trends of development-induced water pollution around the region of the country but to know where the problems are and the policy measures...

We propose a new class of state space models for longitudinal discrete response data where the observation equation is specified in an additive form involving both deterministic and random linear predictors. These models allow us to explicitly address the effects of trend, seasonal or other...

Das Statistische Bundesamt entwickelt sich zu einem digitalen, nutzerorientierten und innovativen Informationsdienstleister weiter. Dazu gehören auch neue Produkte, die Informationen nutzungsfreundlich bereitstellen - wie der Gehaltsvergleich. Diese interaktive Webanwendung ermöglicht es den...

Das Statistische Bundesamt entwickelt sich zu einem digitalen, nutzerorientierten und innovativen Informationsdienstleister weiter. Dazu gehören auch neue Produkte, die Informationen nutzungsfreundlich bereitstellen - wie der Gehaltsvergleich. Diese interaktive Webanwendung ermöglicht es den...

This paper assesses the role of distance in professional team sports, taking the example of football (soccer). We argue that a team's performance in terms of scored and conceded goals decreases with the distance to the foreign playing venue. To test this hypothesis empirically, we investigate...

This paper offers two innovations for empirical growth research. First, the paper discusses principal components augmented regressions to take into account all available information in well-behaved regressions. Second, the paper proposes a frequentist model averaging framework as an alternative...