This paper considers the small sample properties of the mean group estimator of the long-run coefficients in dynamic heterogeneous panels, and using Monte Carlo techniques examines the effectiveness of a number of alternative bias-correction procedures in reducing the small sample bias of these...

This paper reviews some of the main trends in the Iranian economy over the past two decades and discusses the key economic policy issues that divide the reformist from the more conservative factions in Iran. It argues that the economic policy dilemma of whether or not to liberalise the economy...

It is now quite common to have panels in which T, the number of time series observations on the N groups, is quite large. The usual practice is either to estimate N separate regressions and calculate the mean, which we call the Mean Group estimator, or to pool the data and assume the slope...

This study is concerned with estimating the mean of the coefficients in a dynamic panel data model when the coefficients are assumed to be randomly distributed across cross- sectional units. The authors suggest a Bayes approach to the estimation of such models using Markov chain Monte Carlo...

This paper establishes a link between the problem of solving multivariate linear rational expectations models and the problem of solving large sparse linear systems with a block-tridiagonal matrix coefficient structure. Such large linear systems arise in a wide variety of scientific problems,...