This paper investigates the direction of Granger causality, if Granger causality there is, between Swiss bilateral official development aid and Swiss exports for a panel of 50 recipient countries over the period 1974-2013. To account for possible geographical effects, three specific group of...

Consider a matrix valued function A(x)∈Rm×n, m≥n, smoothly depending on parameters x∈Ω⊂R2, where Ω is simply connected and bounded. We consider a technique to locate parameter values where some of the q dominant (q≤n) singular values of A coalesce, in the specific case when A is...

Consider the singular value decomposition (SVD) of a two-parameter function A(x), x∈Ω⊂R2, where Ω is simply connected and compact, with boundary Γ. No matter how differentiable the function A is (even analytic), in general the singular values lose all smoothness at points where they...

With the development of large and long panel databases, the theory surrounding panel causality evolves at a fast pace and empirical researchers may sometimes find it difficult to run the most recent techniques developed in the literature. This article presents the Stata user-written command...

This paper investigates the direction of Granger causality, if Granger causality there is, between Swiss bilateral official development aid and Swiss exports for a panel of 50 recipient countries over the period 1974-2013. To account for possible geographical effects, three specific group of...

With the development of large and long panel databases, the theory surrounding panel causality evolves at a fast pace and empirical researchers may sometimes find it difficult to run the most recent techniques developed in the literature. This article presents the Stata user-written command...