Many retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies are now keeping track of what their customers purchased in the past, often through some form of loyalty program. This record keeping is one example of how modern corporations are building data sets that have a panel structure, a data structure that is also pervasive in insurance and finance organizations. Panel data (sometimes called longi...

Economies across the globe are working towards strengthening quality of governance to promote a conducive environment for trade and investment. The study is an attempt empirically examine impact on India’s with 23 Asian partners period from 2000 2019. In order determinants trade, employs both static as well dynamic panel regression models. We also form index capture indicators using principal c...

This paper develops models of the demand for and supply of elective (non-emergency) surgery using a panel of quarterly data for 200 English hospitals over the period 1995-2002. Unusually, distinct measures of supply (outpatients seen and inpatient admissions) and demand (outpatient referrals and decisions to admit) are available for each observation. These offer the opportunity to estimate sepa...

Using cross-country and panel regressions, we investigate to what extent gender gaps in education and employment (proxied using gender gaps in labor force participation) reduce economic growth. Using the most recent data and investigating an extended time period (1960–2000), we update the results of previous studies on education gaps on growth and extend the analysis to employment gaps using pa...

Among various cultural models, the dichotomy of static versus dynamic models has provided a fertile ground for research. Although a number of static models are suggested, the dominant trend in almost all static models is provided by Hofstede who focuses on cultural differences along four major dimensions (power distance, individualism, uncertainty avoidance, and masculinity) and reduces “the co...

China’s urbanization has resulted in significant changes in agricultural land use. However, understanding of the linkages between urbanization and fertilizer use intensity is limited. Using county-level panel data for Henan Province, 1995–2008 and panel econometric models, we investigate the impact of urbanization and other socioeconomic factors on fertilizer use intensity, with a focus on the ...

A sizeable part of econometric activity deals with empirical description and forecasting, but another aims at quantifying structural or causal relationships. Structural relations are needed for policy evaluation and for testing theories. The regression model is an essential tool for descriptive and structural econometrics. However, regression lines from economic data often cannot be given a cau...

This paper tests whether workers attitudes towards absenteeism is dif ferent for full time and part time workers A modi ed labour supply model predicts that full time workers have a higher absence rate An empirical anal ysis using panel data from the German Socio Economic Panel and count data regression models provides some support for this hypothesis