The Persistence of Informality: Evidence from Panel Data Informality is a growing phenomenon in the developing and transition country labor market context. In particular, it is noticeable that working in an informal employment relationship is often not temporary. The degree of persistence of informality in the labor market might be due to different sources: structural state dependence due to pa...

This paper estimates demand for Internet portals using a clickstream data panel of 2654 users. It shows that familiar econometric methodologies used to study grocery store scanner data can be applied to analyze advertising-supported Internet markets using clickstream data. In particular, it applies the methodology of Guadagni and Little (1983) to better understand households’ Internet portal ch...

This study aims to determine the development of research trends on environmental accounting published by national and international journals. The data analyzed consists 500 indexed publications during period 1981 2020. is then processed using R Bibliometric application bibliometric map developments. results showed that number role related has increased significantly. Then, most common type docu...

ABSTRACT A growing literature provides evidence that peer considerations play a central role in shaping firm’s behavior. This paper documents the frequency of forced CEO turnovers by product market firms is negatively associated with real earnings management. I find disciplinary turnover explains observed relation. These effects are stronger when suspected to engage management meet or just beat...

ABSTRACT This article introduces students and new scholars to key issues in nonprofit accounting research. Three historic vignettes illustrate the role of internal controls legitimizing delegitimizing organizations. Building on these vignettes, I explore five topics: use reports mitigate principal-agent problems, caused by problematic measures, strategic reaction organizations being measured, d...

abstract in this study, we applied recently developed panel unit root and cointegration techniques to examine the long-run real income per capita and price elasticities for demand of electricity in selected middle east and north african (mena) countries using an annual data series from 1990 to 2011.our main finding from the panel analysis is that the demand for electricity is highly price elast...

Uncertainty and unpredictability faced by low-income households increase their vulnerability making poverty even more unbearable. India’s National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD)-initiated Self-Help Group (SHG) program, which is currently the largest and fastest growing microfinance program in the developing world, has been aggressively promoted as a way of combating poverty...

BACKGROUND In 2004, the largest HIV prevention project (Avahan) conducted globally was implemented in India. Avahan was implemented by NGOs supported by state lead partners in order to provide HIV prevention services to high-risk population groups. In 2007, most of the NGOs reached full coverage. METHODS Using a panel data set of the NGOs that implemented Avahan, we investigate the level of t...

The development of markets for natural resources can help to ensure that individual users appropriately internalize the opportunity cost of these resources and thus can decrease resource use. However, expansion of markets also makes it possible to sell these resources, which may lead to more rapid extraction. A simple model of markets for groundwater suggests that the latter effect dominates an...

This paper studies the effects of financial integration on economic growth using an international panel data of 83 countries from 1974-2007. The effects of financial integration on economic growth differ considerably, depending on the type of external assets and liabilities as well as on the characteristics of countries that experience financial integration. In particular, when we break down ex...