This paper examines the composition of trade between the United States and eight Asian Pacific economies from 1962 to 1992. Analysis of the time series pattern of individual commodities at the SITC four-digit level reveals economically significant changes in the pattern of trade, reflecting changing comparative advantage based on changing factor proportions, technology transfer and product cycl...

Southeast Asia’s traditional export of relatively low-skilled products is facing increased competition. There is therefore a general need to upgrade production in the region, which requires a more skilled and educated labour force. Historically, education has not been emphasized in Southeast Asia but there are indications that this is about to change. This paper starts with a general discussion...

This paper studies estimation of a panel data model with latent structures where individuals can be classified into different groups where slope parameters are homogeneous within the same group but heterogeneous across groups. To identify the unknown group structure of vector parameters, we design an algorithm called Panel-CARDS which is a systematic extension of the CARDS procedure proposed by...

Our research aims to determine the effect of electricity distribution and energy consumption on industrial development dynamics that occur between regions in Indonesia by adding investment inflation as control variables. The analysis tools we use are static (Fixed Effect) dynamic (GMM) panel data model with a dataset 34 provinces for 2012-2019 period. results state has significant positive indu...

Kamu borçlarında meydana gelen artışlar, büyüme, bütçe açığı, enflasyon gibi pek çok ekonomik değişken üzerinde olumsuz etkilere yol açabilmektedir. Özellikle ortaya çıkan belirsizliklerle birlikte borçlanmanın çıkaracağı artan maliyet, faiz oranlarının yükselmesine açmaktadır. Öte yandan oranları yatırım oranlarını azaltarak büyüme azalmasına Bu nedenle kamu borcu, uzun dönem kanalıyla ülkeler...

Previous work on the effect of taxes on foreign direct investment (FDI) focused primarily on capital income taxes. We investigate the proposition that other forms of taxation may also deter FDI. We use tax ratios, i.e., average effective tax rates, on consumption, labor and capital income for a panel of 25 OECD countries from 1975-2006. We find that increases in relative tax rates on capital in...

We present a new prior and corresponding algorithm for Bayesian analysis of the multinomial probit model. Our new approach places a prior directly on the identi"ed parameter space. The key is the speci"cation of a prior on the covariance matrix so that the (1,1) element if "xed at 1 and it is possible to draw from the posterior using standard distributions. Analytical results are derived which ...

This paper extends the panel threshold regression of Hansen (1999) and Kourtellos, Stengos and Tan (2007) to allow for endogeneity of the threshold variable. We consider the static linear panels with fixed effect. The modified concentrated two-stage least square methods that are based on inverse Mills ratio bias correction terms are proposed to estimate threshold parameters. Our estimators are ...

In this paper, we study how foreign ownership of Swedish companies affects employment and wages. To study these effects, we specify a model based on the assumption that the Swedish labour market can be described as one where trade unions and employers bargain over employment and wages. Our hypothesis is that bargaining power is affected by institutional settings and the ownership of the firm. T...

This paper revisits the link between health insurance and health by estimating a model that allows for insurance and health to be linked through both dynamic and contemporaneous channels, each with di¤erent policy implications. The model produces two main …ndings. First, while insurance and health appear to be negatively related dynamically, they are positively related contemporaneously, with p...