This paper examines the determinants of healthcare expenditure for low‐, middle‐ and high‐income countries, and it quantifies their influences in order to assess policies for achieving universal health coverage. We elaborate two models, a fixed‐effect model and the dynamic panel model,...

The main objective of this study is to examine the long-run relationship between export upgrading and economic growth for 67 countries over the period of 1984–2013. For this purpose, a panel cointegration framework that allows to control for parameters heterogeneity, cross-sectional dependence...

In this paper, we investigate the potential threshold effects in the relationship between national expenditures on health care and national income. Using a panel threshold regression model, we derive country-specific and time-specific income elasticities for 17 OECD countries over the period...

The paper examines the relationship between health and economic growth using a dynamic panel with threshold effect and endogeneity. The study uses a sample of 136 countries over the period of 1965-2015 and the results indicate that the relationship between health and economic growth is...