Our study, Doucouliagos and Paldam (2008), has recently been critically discussed by Mekasha and Tarp (2011). In this paper we show that contrary to what they state, their study validates our basic analysis: Both papers confirm that the literature has shown that aid is of little economic...

This study investigates dynamics and convergence in CEO pay in Australias largest corporations over an 18 year period. Utilizing dynamic panel estimators, we find that CEO pay is driven by dynamic adjustments, firm size, board size, CEO tenure and firm performance. The largest pay-performance...

Publication selection bias represents a serious challenge to the integrity of all empirical sciences. We develop meta-regression approximations that are shown to reduce this bias and outperform conventional meta-analytic methods. Our approach is derived from Taylor polynomial approximations to...