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In over three decades, Bangladesh has witnessed substantial growth in its export of goods and services. 1 Over this period economic growth has accel-erated with GDP initially recording an average growth rate of below 3% in the early 1970s... more
We develop a generalized impulse response function for the fractionally integrated vector autoregressive (FIVAR) model using the Pesaran and Shin (1998) approach. Our method is different from the methodology shown in Chung (2001) since it... more
Are workers with a university degree increasingly filling job openings meant for people with lower schooling? This article uses a remarkable linked employer–employee dataset on Portugal. Results do not lend support to the recent... more
It is generally understood that as a country develops, it devotes greater resources to safety, including implementing precautionary measures designed to reduce the impacts of natural disasters. With the recent devastating human and... more
... These long-run coefficients are estimated by the ARDL approach to cointegration of Pesaran and Shin (1999). ... However, over the remaining periods we elected to use the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach to cointegration... more
This article describes a methodology to calculate a Spatial Cost of Living (SCOL) index using the Colombian data for 2006 that considers the microeconomic behaviour of households. Estimating an Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS) to recover... more