En este estudio, se evalúa la importancia de las transferencias intergubernamentales sobre el esfuerzo fiscal realizado por los gobiernos locales, así como, el impacto que tienen sobre el nivel de actividad local en el Perú. Usando una base de datos de panel para los municipios distritales y...

To understand the consequences of the presence of international safety nets on governments' incentives to undertake reforms, we model IFIs´ interventions as country insurance policies. We find that country insurance (especially when made contingent on negative external shocks) is more likely...

A new approach for Robust DEA technical efficiency measurements is presented, based on a combination of Jackknife and Bootstrap resampling schemes. First, an algorithm implementing jackknife is used to extract leverage for all data points, that is, the impact of the removal of the observed point...

This paper develops a new covariance-based test of orthogonality that may beattractive when regressors have roots close or equal to unity. In this case standard regression-based orthogonality tests can suffer from (i) size distortions and (ii) uncertainty regarding the appropriate model in which...

This paper is about identification and estimation in a triangular nonparametric structural model with instrumental variables and non-additive errors. Identification and estimation is based on a control function consisting of the conditional distribution function of the endogenous variable given...

A method of principal components is employed to investigate nonlinear dynamic factor structure using a large panel data. The evidence suggests the possibility of nonlinearity in the U.S. while it excludes the class of nonlinearity that can generate endogenous fluctuation or chaos

Not all firms contributed to Australia’s impressive productivity growth in the 1990s. Some performed better than others, and entrants arrived even as incumbents exited. If firms make decisions on input demand and liquidation based on their productivity, the latter known to them...

Within the independent private-values paradigm, we demonstrate nonparametric identification of Dutch and first-price, sealed-bid auction models when bidders are asymmetric. We also demonstrate that, in the presence of a binding reserve price, methods for estimating the distribution of valuations...

We consider a semiparametric log periodogram regression estimation of memory parameter $d$ for non-stationary fractional time series using wavelet transformation. We propose wavelet-based log periodogram regression estimator, and obtain the asymptotic mean squared error, consistency and...

Much of the statistical analysis for poverty measurement regards the data employed to estimate poverty statistics as error-free observations. However, it is amply recognized that surveys responses are not perfectly reliable and that the quality of the data is often poor, especially for...