The consensus of the aid effectiveness literature is that foreign aid is effective at spurring economic growth in recipient countries. However, economic growth is heterogeneous in nature, driven by a number of different activities within an economy. This paper contributes to the literature by disaggregating the Gross Domestic Product of recipients in order to investigate the type of economic gr...

This paper argues that the Phillips curve–wage curve controversy cannot be settled within the conventional testing frameworks and suggests an alternative test, which builds on the model of Blanchard and Katz (1997). Using long macro data for the OECD countries, the evidence gives very strong support for the Phillips curve and indicates that wage behaviour is no different among the OECD countrie...

In panel stochastic frontier models, the Fixed Effects (FE) approach produces biased technical efficiency scores when time-invariant variables are important in the production process, and the Random Effects (RE) approach imposes distributional assumptions about the inefficiency. Moreover, technical efficiency scores obtained from these models are biased when the sample contains a large number o...

This paper discusses likelihood-based estimation of panel data models with individualspecific effects and both lagged dependent variable regressors and additional predetermined explanatory variables. The resulting new estimator, labeled as sub-system LIML (ssLIML), is asymptotically equivalent to standard panel GMM as N →∞ for fixed T , but tends to present smaller biases in finite samples as i...

This paper investigates the determinants of Spanish vertical intra-industry trade with a large sample of countries. We empirically test the comparative advantage explanation. To this aim, we build physical, human and technological capital stocks. On average, that is using OLS techniques, differences in endowments are a limitation for vertical intra-industry trade. Using quantile regressions tec...

Recent developments in nonlinear panel data analysis allow identifying and estimating general dynamic systems. In this review we describe some results and techniques for nonparametric identification and flexible estimation in the presence of time-invariant and time-varying latent variables. This opens the possibility to estimate nonlinear reduced forms in a large class of structural dynamic mod...

The incidence of stroke in India is one the largest worldwide. With this scoping review, we assessed evidence on costs stroke, which essential to evaluate whether care interventions are cost-effective. We adopted a healthcare sector and broader societal perspective searched electronic databases for records including cost estimates (up 2020). Following deduplication screening 2,510 records, extr...

To arrest the spread of COVID-19 infection, strict adherence to frequent hand washing and respiratory hygiene protocols have been recommended. While these measures involve private effort, they provide health gains along with collective community benefits hence are likely be driven by pro-social motives like altruism reciprocity. Using data from 934 respondents collected April till May 2020 acro...

We present a study of the three-dimensional orientation spin vector i – magnitude having higher redshift ranging from 0.54 to 0.60 with respect equilateral co-ordinate system. The main aim this work is know and projection distant galaxies. database taken SDSS 14th data release (DR-14) range contains 239,209 provides two dimensional observed data, we convert it into three-dimension rotation axes...

Schultz, Stanley G. A century of (epithelial) transport physiology: from vitalism to molecular cloning. Am. J. Physiol. 274 (Cell Physiol. 43): C13–C23, 1998.—During the past century, the generally accepted view of the function of biological membranes has evolved from that of a static, inert lipoprotein envelope that simply separates the intracellular machinery from the outside milieu, to that ...