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,...

This paper examines the role of public information communication in dynamic self-enforcing climate agreements. We consider a framework with implicit contracts but also coalition formation context. In stochastic game, where social cost Greenhouse Gasses (GHG) is an unknown random variable, sender, such as Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), controls release verifiable about state v...

this paper investigates the effects of globalization, (export+import)/gdp, tariffs, total factor productivity and per capita capital stock on industrial profitability. we employ the price-wage gap as a proxy for profitability. data used has been made of pooled mean group estimation of dynamic heterogeneous panel, a technique recently developed in dynamic panel data literature. our results show ...

An (m, n) threshold scheme is to decompose the master key K into n secret shadows in such a way that the master key K cannot be reclaimed unless any m shadows are collected. However, any m 1 or fewer shadows provide absolutely no information about K. In 1989, Laih et al. proposed the concept of dynamic threshold schemes which allow the master key to be updated without changing the secret shadow...

This paper adopts the slacks-based measure-directional distance function (SBM-DDF, 2009) method for deriving the “Green Innovation Growth” rates of 28 manufacturing industries in China. The results indicate that the overall level of green innovation growth in China’s manufacturing is relatively low, with a declining trend. The tradeoffs among energy, environment and economy are rather sharp, an...

This article investigates the asymmetric effect of internet access (index internet) on economic growth in 42 sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries over period 2008-2018. The estimation procedure is obtained following a dynamic panel threshold regression technique via 1000 bootstrap replications and 400 grids search developed by Hansen (1996, 1999, 2000). investigation first explores presence infl...