This paper is an empirical study on the estimation of Grossman and Lai’s (2004) gametheoretic model of international patent protection. The model yields clear predictions of the variation in degrees of patent protection across countries based on the market sizes and levels of innovative capability of the countries, and interdependence of the degrees of patent protection between countries. To es...

This paper discusses five methodological problems in applied econometrics. These are the problem of measurement, data mining, publication bias, the Duhem-Quine critique, and the non-repeatable nature of historical events. These problems form a third source of error next to two other more common sources of error in econometrics, sampling error and specification error. The paper argues that these...

Using the financial market data of 35 countries along Belt and Road (B&R), this paper constructs an imported risk network based on conditional expected shortfall (CoES) to measure systemic B&R. Furthermore, complex theory is combined with spatial econometrics construct a spatial, panel model spillover effects risks further explore macroeconomic influences risks. The results show that am...

The main objective of this paper is to verify if there a relationship between industrial agglomeration and the prevalence COVID-19 its diffusion within provinces Morocco. To do so, we used spatial exploratory analysis econometrics show that preponderance activity in province has significant effect on number active cases province. On other hand, have shown not significant, which indicates approp...

This article assesses the role of simulation methods in econometrics pedagogy. Technological advances have increased researchers’ abilities to use simulation methods and have contributed to a greater presence of simulation-based analysis in econometrics research. Simulations can also have an important role as pedagogical tools in econometrics education by providing a data-driven medium for diff...

Econometrics is seen as the dominant method in terms of applicability, accuracy and efficiency in economic science. It is widely used and other methods have been reduced to marginal contributions. Econometricians behave as if their techniques were universal when in fact they are not. If alternative methods are accepted, one can largely eliminate the restrictions and distance to reality of econo...

This article investigates the effect of the intensity of political competition on the tax choices by local governments. More precisely, we study whether local governments determine their tax rates more in a Leviathan way, exploiting a low political competition to vote high tax rates, or in a partisan way, fiscal choices by leftwing governments being significantly in contrast with those by right...

This study explores the congestion dependence relationship among links using microsimulation, based on data from a real road network. The work is motivated by recent innovations to improve the reliability of Dynamic Route Guidance (DRG) systems. The reliability of DRG systems can be significantly enhanced by adding a function to predict the congestion in the road network. This paper also talks ...

a r t i c l e i n f o Higher-order spatial econometric models that include more than one weights matrix have seen increasing use in the spatial econometrics literature. There are two distinct issues related to the specification of these extended models. The first issue is what form the higher-order spatial econometric model takes, i.e. higher-order polynomials in the spatial weights matrices vs...

The purpose of this study is to empirically investigate the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) relationship between water quality and income within European Union, considering spatial interdependences across countries. To end, we apply a econometrics framework using panel data, at national level, for twenty EU countries seventeen years, 1998 2014. Furthermore, account role human livestock popula...