Re-Examining the Debt-Growth Nexus: A Grouped Fixed-Effect Approach

the effect of a selfregulatory approach on the improvement of efl learners listening comprehension

تاثیر آموزش مهارت خود محوری بر روی ارتقاء مهارت شنیداری زبان آموزان هدف این پژوهش بررسی عوامل موثر در ارتقا مهارت شنیداری زبان آموزان ایرانی بود. در مرحله اول این تحقیق پژوهشگر پس از انجام مصاحبه نود زبان آموز را با استفاده از تست ایلتس انتخاب شدند. برای بررسی عوامل عوامل موثر در ارتقا مهارت شنیداری زبان آموزان ایرانی از دو نوع فیلم ویرایش شده و ویرایش نشده استفاده گردید.برای انجام تح...

“Heterogeneity in the debt-growth nexus: Evidence from EMU

Subnational Debt of China: The Politics-Finance Nexus*

Using unique proprietary loan-level data, we provide the first comprehensive study on China’s local government debt, which was off-balance sheet. Policy and commercial banks, both of which are state owned, are the main financiers of local governments. We find that notwithstanding their prevalent nonprofit goal of raising social welfare, policy loans perform remarkably better than commercial loa...

Growth Control: Re-examining Zyxin’s Role in the Hippo Pathway

The Hippo pathway is a conserved regulator of organ growth that computes information from the cellular microenvironment. A new study examines the role of the Hippo pathway protein Zyxin and finds that it antagonises Expanded to modulate F-actin and organ size.

Can Debt Affect Your Health? Cross Country Evidence on the Debt-Health Nexus

We investigate the relationship between household debt and health outcomes for OECD countries over the period 1995 to 2012. Using a dataset of aggregated, standardized and objective measures of household debt and health outcomes, we estimate an instrumental variable (GMM) model in order to deal with endogeneity and reverse causality concerns between health and debt. We find that higher househol...