This paper employs a System Generalized Method of Moments (System GMM) technique to examine the impact of government effectiveness on the economic growth of a panel of 81 countries. The paper finds a significant positive effect of government effectiveness on economic growth

We propose a new Quantity Dual Approach (QDA) to estimate the contribution of nontraded goods to Real Exchange Rate (RER) fluctuations. This method is immune to the bias resulting from the non-inclusion of some goods in CPI calculations and can be applied even in a stringent data environment...

There has been a sharp and steady increase in suicide rates in the US since 2000. We take a novel approach to contribute to the related policy measures. We analyze the cross-sectional and time-varying convergence of suicide rates across US states. Our results show that, in general, there is...