The aim of this paper is to empirically investigate the determinants of tourism demand by utilizing panel data for the period of 1995-2011 from top 20 countries sending tourists to Turkey. Econometric results obtained from panel cointegration analysis show that macroeconomic factors as such income, prices, supply capacity, exchange rate and political stability play a significant role in determi...

-_ The purpose of this paper is to test the life-cycle permanent income hypothesis using an unbalanced panel from the Spanish family expenditure survey. Our model accounts for aggregate shocks and non-separability in the Euler equation among consumption goods, contrary to most of the Iiterature in this area. Our results do not indicate excess sensitivity of consumption growth to income.

â â â  â  zahra zamani [1] â â  seyed komail tayebi â  department of economics, university of isfahan, iran â â department of economics, university of isfahan, iran â â â  abstract â  international trade causes that markets to become more competitive and small-medium sized enterprises (smes) learn to compete effectively within this increasingly competitive global market place. smes are able to ...

background infant mortality rate is widely used to assessing the health status of population in both developing and developed countries. the aim of this study was to identify the main factors affect infant mortality rate in eco countries for the years 2005 to 2012. methods a panel data model from eco countries from 2005 to 2012 used to identify the some of key explanatory variables (gdp per cap...

Article history: Received 2 February 2009 Received in revised form 1 November 2009 Accepted 13 December 2009 Available online 22 December 2009 We investigate the relationship between interest group activity and investment by analyzing an unbalanced panel of observations on 126 countries over three time periods. We find that the number of interest groups in a nation is negatively related to inve...