This study examines the interactions of outward foreign direct investment with institutional quality as well other macroeconomic determinants to determine whether their joint impact promotes home country economic growth. Econometric techniques such pooled OLS, fixed effect, differenced Generalized Methods Moment, and System Moment (GMM) are utilized for panel dataset 141 countries period 2003-2...

East Africa Community exchange rate volatility spiraled up when the countries adopted Structural Adjustment Policies in early 1980s. The question that remains unanswered is whether hinders or promotes trade. objective of this study was to determine effect and its on Intra-East community regional Unit root tests results indicated some variables were stationary at levels first difference, all I(1...

In this paper we introduce a panel quantile estimator for count data with individual heterogeneity, by constructing continuous variables whose conditional quantiles have a one-to-one relationship with the conditional count response variable. The new method is needed as a result of the increased availability of Big Data, which allows us to track event counts at the individual level for a large n...

The partially linear additive model arises in many scientific endeavors. In this paper, we look at inference given panel data and a serially correlated error component structure. By combining polynomial spline series approximation with least squares and the estimation of correlation, we propose a weighted semiparametric least squares estimator (WSLSE) for the parametric components, and a weight...

This paper considers estimation and inference in panel vector autoregressions (PVARs) with fixed effects when the time dimension of the panel is finite, and the cross-sectional dimension is large. A Maximum Likelihood (ML) estimator based on a transformed likelihood function is proposed and shown to be consistent and asymptotically normally distributed irrespective of the unit root and cointegr...

This paper derives consistent standard errors for a panel Tobit model in the presence of correlated errors. The problem is framed in the context of Newey and West (1987), considering the Tobit model as a special case of a GMM estimator. JEL codes: C23, C24

In this note we revisit the use of exclusion restrictions in the semiparametric binary choice panel data model introduced in Honore and Lewbel (2002). We show that in a dynamic panel data setting (where one of the pre-determined explanatory variables is the lagged dependent variable), the exclusion restriction in Honore and Lewbel (2002) implicitly requires serial independence condition on an o...

Estimation of nonlinear fixed-effects models is plagued by the incidental parameters problem. This paper proposes a procedure for choosing appropriate densities for integrating the incidental parameters from the likelihood function in a general context. The densities are based on priors that are updated using information from the data and are robust to possible correlation of the group-specific...