The marketing and sales polices of Iranian crude oil have been revised and changed after the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Production policy that drastically cut back production in order to maintain oil reserves for future generations. In terms of marketing Iranian crude oil, the new revolutionary...

This paper examines official country selection as well as resource allocation of German aid after the end of the Cold War and embeds the analysis into the broader debate about German foreign policy. Based on new data, we take into account several peculiarities of the German aid system. We find...

We argue in this paper that it is more feasible to use binary variables and logistic regression analyses in the assessments of AIDS incidents o or other similar researches in social science. Thus, even in measuring disease persistence we can reach solid and comprehensive results. Statistical...

This paper examines the characteristics and determinants of the deviations between the initial and final figures of the Spanish public budget from 1985 to 2006. Our goal is to evaluate the extent to which initial budgeted figures adhered ex-post to actual fiscal figures, by trying to unveil...

Fractional dependent variables and models with state dependence arise in many economic applications. However, estimating models with fractional dependent variables is complicated by the presence of two corner solution outcomes. When coupled with a dynamic panel data setting, estimating...

This paper is the second of a trilogy of papers that measure the impact of roads on poverty in Guatemala. The objective of this study is to construct a detailed and informative poverty-access profile that can simultaneously inform Guatemala’s poverty reduction and rural transport strategies...

This study is the third of a trilogy of papers that examine the impact of road related works on poverty in Guatemala. The study uses propensity score matching with nearest neighbor matching to estimate the effects of better roads, caused by road rehabilitation and road repair, on access and...

This paper is concerned with the problems of posterior simulation and model choice for Poisson panel data models with multiple random effects. Efficient algorithms based on Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods for sampling the posterior distribution are developed. A new parameterization of the...