This paper includes the estimation of demand production function for health in the case of Pakistan. We employ Multiple Indicator Multiple Cause (MIMIC) models which belong to the family of Structural Equation Models (SEM). The issue of unobservability of health has been addressed and it is...

The paper investigates the importance of territorial characteristics/assets (i.e. agglomeration economies, urban infrastructure, factors of labor and cost, development policies, qualitative factors, inter alia) on small- and medium-sized firms’ competitiveness. The analysis uses primary data...

The independent exploratory factor analysis method is introduced for recovering independent latent sources from their observed mixtures. The new model is viewed as a method of factor rotation in exploratory factor analysis (EFA). First, estimates for all EFA model parameters are obtained...