Regression analysis with geographic information needs to take into consideration the inherent spatial autocorrelation and heterogeneity of the data. Due to such spatial effects, it is found that local regression such as the geographically weighted regression (GWR) tends to capture the relationships better. In addition, in panel data analysis, the variable coefficient panel regression can borrow...

Does productivity growth increase or reduce unemployment? Theoretical and empirical analyses have generally provided mixed results. In this paper we analyze the empirical relationship between productivity and unemployment over different time frames using wavelet analysis. The scale-by-scale results from panel data and nonparametric regressions methods indicate that productivity-unemployment rel...

Considering the fundamental role played by small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the economy of many countries and the considerable attention placed on SMEs in the new Basel Capital Accord, we develop a distress prediction model specifically for the SME sector and to analyze its effectiveness compared to a generic corporate model. The behaviour of financial measures for SMEs is analyzed ...

This paper employs panel data to estimate the effects of awareness and political partisanship on post-convention candidate evaluations. The theoretical framework proposed by John Zaller (1992) is employed; however, a functional form that differs greatly from Zaller’s proposed model is derived from Zaller’s assumption and then estimated using standard OLS regression. I find that partisans of the...

In many Swiss cantons, new government programs must be approved by a referendum of citizens before money can be spent. Referendums seem like a natural way to address citizen–legislator agency problems, yet statistical evidence on how referendums affect spending decisions is almost nonexistent. We estimate regressions for Swiss cantons using panel data from 1980 to 1998 and find that mandatory r...

One unresolved question in the empirical growth literature is the impact of income inequality on future economic growth. While a first wave of cross-country regressions concluded that there was a significant and negative impact on future growth, a second wave of regressions using panel data to control for potential omitted variable bias has consistently found the coefficient on inequality to be...

The report by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on the presidential vote in Florida during the 2000 general election presents two types of empirical evidence that African Americans were systematically denied the right to vote. To reach their conclusion that discrimination had occurred, the commission examined the impact of race on spoiled (or nonvoted) ballot rates as well as the impact of ra...

It is a popular contention that products launched today diffuse faster than products launched in the past. However, the evidence of diffusion acceleration is both scant and mixed. Moreover, the methodology used in previous studies has a number of disadvantages. This study re-assesses the acceleration thesis in a single country (U.S.) for 37 consumer durables over a period of 74 years (1923-1996...

A Empirical robustness exercises 3 A.1 Detrending method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 A.2 Alternative ways of constructing cohort-level employment . . . . . . . . . 3 A.3 Results using data averaged over a two-year window . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 A.4 Panel regressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 A.5 Establishments . . . . . ....

The main objective of this study is to determine the factors influencing the cloud computing adoption by Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs). Based on two dominant theories in the field of diffusion of innovation, a conceptual model is proposed. In order to test the model empirically, an online survey was designed and launched. Decision makers of 50 SMEs agreed to participate in this surv...