the main objective of this paper is to investigate the effects of monetary regime (countries with inflation targeting monetary policy versus countries with exchange rate anchor) on the extent of exchange rate pass-through over the period of 1999-2010. to achieve this objective, the econometric model has been estimated by dynamic panel data approach and arrelano- bond (ab) method. the empirical ...

A spatial dynamic panel data approach is adopted to study regional growth convergence in the U.S. economy. In the neoclassical growth model, regions and countries are assumed to be independent from each other, which may not be valid in the real world. We introduce technological spillovers into the neoclassical framework, showing that the convergence rate is higher and there is spatial interacti...

abstract: the tax capacity is one of the main concepts in public finance and provides the required information on state economic power in mobilizing the tax resources for responding the financial problems and execution of economic policies. for this purpose, the main objective of this paper is to estimate the tax capacity for oil exporting countries over the period of 1995-2008 by applying pane...

emigration is such an important topic that has been attained a lot of interest especially in the last three decades. according to the statistics announced by the united nations, outbound emigrants in recent years have been far from inbound emigrants in iran. therefore, investigating the role of various main determinants in the flow of outbound emigrants is so important and could be considered i...