In this paper we present an empirical analysis of the residential demand for electricity using annual aggregate data at the state level for 48 US states from 1995 to 2007. We estimate a dynamic partial adjustment model using the Kiviet corrected LSDV (1995) and the Blundell-Bond (1998)...

Increased health care expenditure could be used to improve quality of care or reduce waiting time and could therefore be expected to affect the health and sickness absence of a population. Still, based on data from a panel of Swedish municipalities, public health care expenditure was found to...

Using the fixed and random effect panel regression models the paper tries to empirically examine the incentive effects of federal transfers on states’ own-revenue. Per capita resource transfers from the centre are found to be significant and negatively associated with states’...