This article aims to examine the trade effects of the South Asian FTAs including regional and bilateral ones with a focus on Sri Lanka, by applying a gravity trade model as an analytical framework. The study specifically targets the following three FTAs: the South Asian Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) enforced in 2006, the India-Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement (ISFTA) in 2001, and the Pakistan-Sri ...

This paper proposes a test for the null of sphericity in a …xed e¤ects panel data model. It uses the Random Matrix Theory based approach of Ledoit and Wolf (2002) to test for the null of sphericity of the error terms in a …xed e¤ects panel model with a large number of cross-sectional units and time series observations. Since the errors are unobservable, the residuals from the …xed e¤ects regres...

Specialization alters the incidence of trade costs to buyers and sellers, with pro-and anti-globalizing effects on 76 countries from 1990-2002. The structural gravity model yields measures of Constructed Home Bias and the Total Factor Productivity effect of changing incidence. A bit more than half the world’s countries experience declining constructed home bias and rising real output while the ...

Kamu borçlarında meydana gelen artışlar, büyüme, bütçe açığı, enflasyon gibi pek çok ekonomik değişken üzerinde olumsuz etkilere yol açabilmektedir. Özellikle ortaya çıkan belirsizliklerle birlikte borçlanmanın çıkaracağı artan maliyet, faiz oranlarının yükselmesine açmaktadır. Öte yandan oranları yatırım oranlarını azaltarak büyüme azalmasına Bu nedenle kamu borcu, uzun dönem kanalıyla ülkeler...

due to increasing number of international tourists and the enhancing role of tourism in economies of countries and competing environment, recognizing determinants in attracting international tourists seems very essential than ever before. public and private sectors need to examine determinants and forecast tourism demand. the primary aim of this study is using econometric techniques to analyzin...

Maximum Likelihood Estimation and Lagrange Multiplier Tests for Panel Seemingly Unrelated Regressions with Spatial Lag and Spatial Errors: An Application to Hedonic Housing Prices in Paris This paper proposes maximum likelihood estimators for panel seemingly unrelated regressions with both spatial lag and spatial error components. We study the general case where spatial effects are incorporated...

This study investigates the relationships among pollutant emissions, energy consumption and economic development in China during the period 1982-2007 by using one-step GMM-system model under multivariable panel VAR framework, controlling for capital stock and labor force. Regarding the data for all 28 provinces as a whole, we find that there is a unidirectional positive relationship running fro...

the efficiency of the institutions and the level of their effectiveness in trading among the countries are pretty new subjects that have been considered in recent studies. many researchers believe that the corruption would cause a reduction in trading among the countries. on the other hand some others assume corruption can help to facilitate the transactions process. the main purpose of this pa...

Previous work on the effect of taxes on foreign direct investment (FDI) focused primarily on capital income taxes. We investigate the proposition that other forms of taxation may also deter FDI. We use tax ratios, i.e., average effective tax rates, on consumption, labor and capital income for a panel of 25 OECD countries from 1975-2006. We find that increases in relative tax rates on capital in...