Motivated by the need of estimating the main spawning period of North Sea cod, we develop a common transfer function model with a panel of contemporaneously correlated times series data. This model incorporates (i) the smoothness on the parameters by assuming that the second differences are small and (ii) the contemporaneous correlation by assuming that the errors have a general variance-covari...

1 Mixture Model and Bayesian Model Interpretations Combining Equations 2.1 and 2.2 (Main Text), we can consider the empirical-Bayes hierarchical model as a mixed model with both fixed and random effects in the frequentist setting as given by: logit(pmi) = αm + ZmγXmi +Xmiτ tmm, where ZmγXmi would be considered a fixed effect and Xmiτ tmm a random effect. Alternatively, this model may be viewed ...

this paper analyses the impact of sanctions against iran in addition to other country-specific determinants on intra-industry trade between iran and shanghai cooperation organization (sco) countries over the period 1997-2013. by disentangling total intra-industry trade (iit) into horizontal and vertical iit and after investigating bilateral trade pattern between iran and sco countries, determin...

Background Fiscal Decentralization (FD) in many cases is encouraged as a strong means of improving the efficiency and equity in the provision of public goods, such as healthcare services. This issue has urged the researchers to experimentally examine the relationship between fiscal decentralization indicators and health outcomes. In this study we examine the effect of Fiscal Decentralization in...