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Testing the rank of Engel curves with endogenous expenditure
(1999)
We find that the endogeneity of consumer expenditure tends to increase the estimated rank of Engel curves. This result, based on nonparametric procedure, is in line with previous results obtained in the context of parametric ...
Age effects on consumer demand: An additive partially linear regression model
(2002)
An additive partially linear regression model is used to estimate non-parametrically the effects of total expenditure and age in the context of Engel curves and to investigate the specification and welfare interpretation ...
Nesting quadratic logarithmic demand systems
(2002)
We propose a new generalised rank-3 demand system which nests all known (and new) rank-3 and rank-2 demand systems derived from the Quadratic Logarithmic (QL) cost function. We investigate its statistical adequacy against ...
Estimates of the black economy based on consumer demand approaches
(2004)
We propose a consumer demand system approach to estimating the size of the black economy where alternative hypotheses affecting the empirical results can be tested in a nested framework. This approach allows for the ...
Economic development and the return to human capital: a smooth coefficient semiparametric approach
(2006)
This paper investigates the impact of human capital on the process of economic growth by allowing the contribution of traditional inputs (capital and labour) as well as that of human capital to vary both across countries ...
Do institutions rule? The role of heterogeneity in the institutions vs. geography debate
(2010)
We uncover evidence of substantial heterogeneity in the growth experience of countries using a structural threshold regression methodology. Our findings suggest that studies that seek to promote mono-causal explanations ...
Structural threshold regression
(2016)
This paper introduces the structural threshold regression (STR) model that allows for an endogenous threshold variable as well as for endogenous regressors. This model provides a parsimonious way of modeling nonlinearities ...
Is the financial development and economic growth relationship nonlinear?
(2007)
Using nonparametric estimation techniques we find that, in contrast to recent research, the finance-growth relationship is linear when the previously documented nonlinearity between initial per capital income, human capital ...
European economics: an analysis based on publications in the core journals
(1999)
In this paper we provide a ranking of European economics institutions and countries based on publications in a core set of 10 economic journals from 1991 to 1996. We find that the three leading universities in Europe are ...
Rankings of academic journals and institutions in economics
(2003)
We conducted a worldwide ranking of academic institutions that produce research in a list of thirty top research journals in economics. We also computed journal rankings for the same period and hence we do not rely on ...