Formal approaches to assess the validity of spatial theoretical constructs are reviewed and
evaluated with respect to their application and potential in spatial econometrics. A distinction …

This chapter focuses on the hypotheses testing problem when the hypotheses or models
under consideration are “nonnested” or belong to “separate” families of distributions, in the …

Unlike previous renewable energy consumption-growth studies, this study examines the
relationship between renewable and non-renewable energy consumption and economic …

What matters most to voters when they choose their leaders? This book suggests that
performance politics is at the heart of contemporary democracy, with voters forming …

This article estimates peer effects originating from the ability composition of tutorial groups
for undergraduate students in economics. We manipulated the composition of groups to …

Research on organizational aspirations has used various representations of firm‐level
aspirations and based those representations on various performance measures. To …

The encompassing principle is used to develop a testing framework which unifies the
literature on non-nested testing, allowing analysis of the relationship between alternative …

This paper presents a theoretical framework and some empirical results showing that the
level of foreign aid received reduces the supply of terrorist attacks by recipient countries, as …

The link between resource deprivation and urban violence has long been explored in
criminological research. Studies, however, have largely ignored the potential for resource …

Background: Given the characteristics of health care expenditure/cost data–a mass of
observations at zero, and skewed positive expenditures, various alternative estimators have …