scholarly journals Congestion, Technical Returns, and the Minimum Efficient Scales of Local Public Expenditures: An Empirical Analysis for Japanese Cities

2019 ◽  
pp. 217-231
Author(s):  
Masayoshi Hayashi
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Public Expenditures

scholarly journals Do Government Expenditures Subject to Law of Diminishing Returns? A Panel Data Application

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Menşure Kolçak ◽  
Ali Yasin Kalabak
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Random Effect ◽  
Random Effect Model ◽  
Government Expenditure ◽  
Fixed Effect Model ◽  
Public Expenditures ◽  
Effect Model ◽  
Diminishing Returns

The effect of government expenditure on economic growth has attracted attention of economist for long time. In this context, this paper aims to understand that government expenditure subjects to whether constant, decreasing or increasing yield. For this reason, countries were classified as with low government expenditure, medium government expenditure and high government expenditure, and were added into empirical analysis in the paper. The number of countries included in the analysis is 138 and the analysis covers the period between years 1980 and 2016. In this context, empirical analysis consists of fixed effect model, random effect model, hausman test and unbalanced panel data technique was applied. According to results of analysis, when government expenditure increases as quantitative, it’s effect on economic growth decreases but it still affects economic growth positively. To make public expenditures lately subject to law of diminishing returns, it may come into question that public expenditures is canalized to technology intensive areas. In order to increase productivity in the public expenditures and to shift out diminishing returns, level of spendings on human capital can be increased.

scholarly journals Empirical analysis of merchandise trade deficit and the current account in Lebanon

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 173-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Azar ◽  
◽  
A. Bolbol ◽  
H. Hakimian ◽  
A. Mouradian ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Current Account ◽  
Real Exchange Rates ◽  
Trade Deficit ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Public Expenditures ◽  
Strong Basis ◽  
Domestic Production ◽  
Merchandise Trade ◽  
The Current Account

The paper provides an empirical analysis of Lebanon’s merchandise trade deficit and thecurrent accountfor the 1969-2016 period. Using the Auto-Regressive Distributed Lag approach, it estimatesstandard demand functions for merchandise exports and imports and the trade deficit.The results show that real exchange rates do not have a long-run impact on exports, imports, the trade deficit, and the current account; domestic production has a notableeffect on reducing trade deficits while absorption expenditures, primarily public expenditures, have a strong effect on increasing trade deficits. The main three conclusions and policy implications that emerge from the analysis are: first, the Central Bank of Lebanon’s policy of fixing the exchange rate in the post-war period has not harmed competitiveness and has proved to be a strong basis for monetary stability; second, a more active industrial and investment policy is needed to enhance competitiveness and export promotion and to increase and diversify domestic production; and third, public expenditures ought to be urgently rationalized and conducted within a framework of sound fiscal and governance reforms.

An Empirical Analysis of the Obtrusiveness of and Participants' Compliance with the Electronically Activated Recorder (EAR)

2007 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 248-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias R. Mehl ◽  
Shannon E. Holleran
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
Data Confidentiality ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
Audio Recorder ◽  
Term Monitoring

Abstract. In this article, the authors provide an empirical analysis of the obtrusiveness of and participants' compliance with a relatively new psychological ambulatory assessment method, called the electronically activated recorder or EAR. The EAR is a modified portable audio-recorder that periodically records snippets of ambient sounds from participants' daily environments. In tracking moment-to-moment ambient sounds, the EAR yields an acoustic log of a person's day as it unfolds. As a naturalistic observation sampling method, it provides an observer's account of daily life and is optimized for the assessment of audible aspects of participants' naturally-occurring social behaviors and interactions. Measures of self-reported and behaviorally-assessed EAR obtrusiveness and compliance were analyzed in two samples. After an initial 2-h period of relative obtrusiveness, participants habituated to wearing the EAR and perceived it as fairly unobtrusive both in a short-term (2 days, N = 96) and a longer-term (10-11 days, N = 11) monitoring. Compliance with the method was high both during the short-term and longer-term monitoring. Somewhat reduced compliance was identified over the weekend; this effect appears to be specific to student populations. Important privacy and data confidentiality considerations around the EAR method are discussed.

Empirical Analysis of Clinical Evaluations on Children Involved in the Child Protection System: The Role of Age and Gender

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erika Felix ◽  
Anjali T. Naik-Polan ◽  
Christine Sloss ◽  
Lashaunda Poindexter ◽  
Karen S. Budd
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Protection System ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
Clinical Evaluations ◽  
And Gender
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