This paper modeled the dynamic inter-relationships between average salary, bonus, and stock options granted to top executives of 700 U.S. firms using a merged ExecuComp and Compustat database. The effects of stock options granted and exercised on firms' share repurchases and research and...

This paper modeled the effects of firms' fundamentals such as total assets and long-term debt and of macroeconomic variables such as unemployment and interest rates on quarterly stock prices of over 3000 U.S. firms in 2000-07. The merged CRSP/Compustat database was augmented by macroeconomic...

The rapid economic growth in China has been accompanied by increases in internal migration as well as marital dissolution. Using longitudinal data from China Health and Nutrition Surveys covering over 19,000 individuals during 1989-2011, this paper modeled the inter-relationships between...

This paper analysed longitudinal Compustat data on dividend payments and share repurchases of over 2000 U.S. industrial firms using 2-yearly averages for the period 1992-2007. First, dynamic autoregressive models for dividends and share repurchases were estimated by maximum likelihood to yield...

Country-level longitudinal data at three-year intervals over 1990-2004 are used to analyze the factors affecting emigration of physicians from Sub-Saharan countries and the effects of this medical brain drain on life expectancy and number of deaths due to AIDS. Data are compiled on emigrating...

Although the importance of diet quality for improving child health is widely recognized, the roles of environmental factors and the absorption of nutrients for children's physical growth and morbidity have not been adequately integrated into a policy framework. Moreover, nutrient intakes...

Analyses of financial data are important for several reasons including for understanding the decisions of stock traders, enhancing financial stability of economies, testing implications of economic theories, forecasting stock prices, and formulating corporate policies. The financial economics...

While the importance of diet quality for improving child health is widely recognized, the roles of environmental factors and absorption of nutrients for children's physical growth and morbidity have not been adequately integrated into a policy framework. Moreover, nutrient intakes gradually...

Although the importance of diet quality for improving child health is widely recognized, the roles of environmental factors and the absorption of nutrients for children's physical growth and morbidity have not been adequately integrated into a policy framework. Moreover, nutrient intakes...

This paper analyzed several longitudinal data sets for investigating the dynamic inter-relationships between CO2 emissions and atmospheric concentrations, ambient temperatures, and ocean acidification and deoxygenation. The methodological framework addressed issues such as the use of temperature...