This paper contributes to the renewable energy literature from two perspectives. First, we investigate factors driving deployment in MENA countries using economic, financial, and political variables including financial development, government effectiveness stability. investigation is empirically carried out by Panel Smooth Transition Model (PSTR) (Gonzales et al., 2017) that explicitly explores...

This paper aims to investigate whether the relationship between liquidity risk and bank stability is non-linear. It uses a sample of 83 MENA banks from 2005 2020. Due several economic, financial, regulation differences, whole was divided into two sub-samples. The first one related Middle East countries covers 56 while second North African 27 banks. We performed Panel Smooth Threshold Regression...

background: in this article, we used a panel smooth transition regression model to estimate the relationship between health expenditure and income. this approach is employed to continuously model changing parameters among countries and during time. it is thus suitable for eliminating heterogeneity among countries and the variability of the relationship between gross domestic product (gdp) and h...

regarding the important role of health in economic growth and development, the purpose of the present paper is to investigate the impact of life expectancy, as the most important indicator of health, on economic growth in iran during 1965-2009. the estimated smooth transition regression (str) model supports a nonlinear threshold behavior in the relationship between life expectancy and economic ...

This paper studies the cost efficiency of bank in a partial universal banking system (PUBS), Taiwan. Instead of assuming one common technology in the bank cost function, two technologies are assumed to be imbedded in the cost function. We use fee revenues as threshold to divide the banks into two technologies. A bank whose fee revenues exceeding the threshold is designated as universal bank tec...

This paper investigates the impact of government size on economic growth in selected economies of the MENA countries by using a non-linear panel data approach over the period 1990-2011. The estimation results of Panel Smooth Threshold Regression model show that when the level of government consumption is very large, the positive impact of labor force on growth is intensified. On the other hand,...