In addressing the issue of short-run heterogeneity as well as long-run homogeneity of the estimated coefficients in a panel framework, the Pooled Mean Group (PMG) estimator (Pesaran et al., 1999) has gained popularity in applied research in economics and business recently. This estimation method...

Inequality in vaccination has been perceived as a research problem in the recent COVID-19 pandemic. So far, this type of inequality has been investigated in the particular context of race, ethnicity, gender, regions in different parts of the world, with no study conducted so far in the context...

NSU is going to celebrate her recent success in THE ranking 2023. Many of you might be interested in exploring the underlying reasons for successful private-sector higher education in Bangladesh. This recently published research paper may give you some thoughts based on recent research funded by...

Political risk or insecurity have been perceived as major deterrents to the trade flow all around the globe. Using a global dataset of countries, drawn from both OECD and Non-OECD lists, this paper examines the role of twelve different types of political risks or insecurities which act as a...

Autoregressive Distributed Lag Model (ARDL) even though distinguishes between the short run and the long run effect allows both the intercepts and slopes to vary across countries. On the other hand, the static panel estimation such as fixed-effects estimation (FE) cannot distinguish between the...

The existing literature on COVID-19 has been dominated by medical sciences as well as epidemiological studies related to different public health reasons or disease related issues. Using the data set of 8 variables of Roser et al. (2020) from Our World in Data we have tested several propositions...

A limited number of studies have tested the J-Curve phenomenon using bilateral trade data between the United States and its major trading partners. In this paper, we test the J-Curve hypothesis by using quarterly bilateral data over the 1973-98 period between Japan and its nine major trading...