This study employs four data envelopment analysis (DEA) models to evaluate the performance efficiency of 21 OECD countries and assess whether the undesirable outputs are over-produced relative to desirable outputs. In evaluating the performance of OECD countries via super-efficiency models, this...

This paper employs the intervention indices measured from the modified Weymark (1997) model and modified trade models to evaluate the role of China's intervention behavior in the trade balances with its four major trade partners. In our constructed trade models, the intervention effects comprise...

This study employs panel smooth transition regression (PSTR) models with different lagged variables of earnings components as regressor to evaluate earnings persistence effects. The models can resolve collinearity problems between predictors, reflect firms' volatile or irregular earnings streams...

This paper investigates the threshold effects on the impacts of fundamentals (i.e., incomes, exchange rates, oil prices, and import-weighted distances) on China's trade balances with the G7 countries between 1975 and 2010 by using a panel smooth transition regression (PSTR) model with the...

This article employs the Weymark (1997) and Baig et al. (2003) models to evaluate the central bank's intervention behaviour and utilizes ex post intervention news to check the models' estimation results. Empirical results show that the Baig et al. model's evaluation performance in intervention...