Fishers are often perceived to be poor, and low income levels are used to justify subsidies and other types of direct and indirect income support to maintain coastal communities. In this study we investigate fishers' income levels in four Nordic countries; Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden for...

In a recent study, Westerlund (Empir Econ 37:517–531, <CitationRef CitationID="CR37">2009</CitationRef>) shows that the performance of the popular LLC (Levin et al., J Econ 108:1–24, <CitationRef CitationID="CR22">2002</CitationRef>) panel unit root test depends critically on the choice of lag truncation used when correcting for serial correlation, and that it is only when this...</citationref></citationref>

Pesaran and Yamagata (Pesaran, M.H., Yamagata, T., Testing slope homogeneity in large panels, Journal of Econometrics 142, 50–93, 2008) propose a test for slope homogeneity in large panels, which has become very popular in the literature. However, the test cannot deal with the practically...