(This paper is in Turkish) Long term data are important in terms of scientific researches that have economic and statistical applications have got meaningful results. But differences which occur in International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC) system, especially for many variants,...

The application of econometric analysis to the process of economic policy formulation is considered. A framework is provided by the theory of reduction, specifically reductions where key information losses would invalidate policy.

Distribution free statistics are employed to investigate biennial income per capita convergence across 52 Spanish provinces over the period 1955-1997. Based upon ideas of concordance and discordance that capture convergence and divergence properties, the paper presents results that suggest...

Since 1975, an increase in the return to skill (measured by years of education), in the percentage of the labor force that is skilled, and in the variance of wage income within skill categories have characterized the U.S. labor market. While the first two facts point towards an increase in the...

In this paper, we examine the robust Wald test statistic for SUR systems with adding up restrictions where the same explanatory variables are present in all equations and where heteroskedasticity and/or autocorrelation of unknown forms may be present. For this case, the coefficients are usually...

The explanation of economic inequality and its relationship to growth has produced a great amount of research. Kuznets (1955) formulated the “inverted-U” hypothesis according to which inequality increases in the initial levels of development to decrease later on, after a certain point of...

This paper explores the extent of efficiency improvements achieved by New Zealand banks over the period 1996 to 2002, using data envelopment analysis (DEA), on a time-series, rather than cross-sectional basis. <p> Evidence is found for improvements in bank efficiency through time, some of which can...</p>

The objective of this investigation is to evaluate the agreement level in the classification of the university faculty according to the components: study (CICP1) and promotion (CICP2) proposed by Sinha, Ramoni, Orlandoni, Torres y Figueroa (2007). Two categorization schemes are used, with three...

Multivariate multiple regression analysis is used to model the relationships between two sets of variables, the y-set of response variables and the x-set of explaining variables. In trying to have useful information about the nature of the relationships between the two sets, Ter Braak (1990)...