Money Attitude Questionnaire is an original, Polish scale measuring cognitive, emotional and behavioral aspects of attitudes towards money. Because of its considerable length, in this paper I present a new, short version of this scale. The items were selected on the basis of factor loading and...

Given that structural labor supply models continue to play a key role in the process of policy design, it is important to validate their capacity to provide reasonable predictions of alternative hypothetical policy options. Comparing outcomes before and after a realized policy change (such as a...

Uncovering gradients is of crucial importance across a broad range of economic environments. Here we consider data-driven bandwidth selection based on the gradient of an unknown regression function. The procedure developed here is automatic and does not require initial estimation of unknown...

The goal of the present study is to conduct a comprehensive examination of reliability and validity of Malay language 20-item version of workplace spirituality scales developed by Ashmos and Duchon (2000) in Malaysian school setting. Therefore a translated version of established content and...

Forecast models with large cross-sections are often subject to overparameterization leading to unstable parameter estimates and hence inaccurate forecasts. Recent articlessuggest that a large Bayesian vector autoregression (BVAR) with sufficient prior information dominates competing approaches....

Nonparametric density estimation is of great importance when econometricians want to model the probabilistic or stochastic structure of a data set. This comprehensive review summarizes the most important theoretical aspects of kernel density estimation and provides an extensive description of...

In this work paper we wanted to present a number of issues relating to the importance of foreign direct investment have on the economic development of any State. to provide the depth of this analysis, we used an econometric regression model to show the correlation between the amount of foreign...

In this paper, the authors analyze the main aspects regarding the use of the multiple regression model in the analysis of the Gross Domestic Product of Romania, during the period 1990 – 2010. In this context, there are used as explicative variables, the values of the final consumption, gross...