This paper analyses the relationship between female labour market participation and mortgage commitments in a life-cycle set up. In particular, it examines whether a mortgage qualification constraint has any effect on female labour market participation. This is done by conditioning on the mortgage decision in a labour market participation equation for married women. Endogeneity of the mortgage ...

Two of the fastest growing frontiers in econometrics and quantitative finance are time series and financial econometrics. Significant theoretical contributions to financial econometrics have been made by experts in statistics, econometrics, mathematics, and time series analysis. The purpose of this special issue of the journal on “Frontiers in Time Series and Financial Econometrics” is to highl...

This paper explains why Godambe-Durbin \estimating functions" (EFs) from 1960 are worthy of attention in econometrics. Godambe and Kale (1991) show the failures of Gauss-Markov and least squares and prove the small-sample superiority of EFs. There are many areas of Econometrics including unit root estimation, generalized method of moments (GMM), panel data models, etc., which can use some simpl...

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This review offers a guided tour to PcGive 10 modules for econometrics analysis of time series (PcGive), limited dependent variable (LogitJD) and static and dynamic panel data analyses (DPD), financial econometric (GARCH) and time series (ARFIMA) modelling. Several empirical applications are reported to illustrate the package.

Using a unique survey database of 8265 firms from 25 transition economies, I find that lack of access to finance in general, and to bank credit in particular, is associated with significantly lower investment in on-the-job training. This effect is stronger in education-intensive industries and in industries facing good global growth opportunities. To address endogeneity issues, I use the struct...

The present special issue features a collection of papers presented at the 2017 International Panel Data Conference, hosted by University Macedonia in Thessaloniki, Greece. conference marked 40th anniversary inaugural which was held 1977 INSEE Paris, under auspices French National Centre for Scientific Research. As collection, appearing this Journal Econometrics continue to advance analysis pan...

Spatial econometrics has been an ongoing research …eld. Recently, it has been extended to the panel data settings. The spatial panel data can allow cross sectional dependence as well as state dependence, and it can also enable researchers to control for unknown heteorgeneity. This paper reports some recent developments in the econometric speci…cation and estimation on spatial panel data models....

Labor courts play an important role in determining the effective level of labor market regulation in Germany, but their application of law may not be even-handed. Based on a theoretical model of the legal process and a new panel data set, we identify a nomination bias in labor court activity – that is, court activity varies systematically with the political leaning of the government that has ap...

Imperial China employed a civil examination system to select scholar bureaucrats as ruling elites. This institution dissuaded high-performing individuals from pursuing some modernization activities, such as establishing modern firms or studying overseas. This study uses prefecture-level panel data from 1896-1910 to compare the effects of the chance of passing the civil examination on modernizat...