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Wojciech W. Charemza andDerekF. Deadman. NewDirections in Econometric Practice, General to Specific Modelling,Cointegration and Vector Auto Regression. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited. 1997. Pages 360. £28.00 (Paperback).
Full text linkighly acclaimed and endorsed by leading econometricians, the
book “New Directions in Econometric Practice” is not new among the
econometrics and statisticians. It is more of a textbook for students of
econometrics and statistics at various levels.It impressively attempts
to addressthe main objective of explaining ‘how to practice
econometrics’. It provides an accessibleand user-friendly approach to a
new approach and methodology presented by David Hendry in his
book,‘Dynamic Econometrics’. The book under review provides a practical
and hands-on illustration ofHendry’s approach, enabling students to use
it for themselves inreal world time-series econometric problems. The
second edition of thebook attempts to address the shortfalls identified
by some reviewers in the first edition. By providing practical
guidelines in terms of empirical illustration of each technique,using
DHSY’s suggested aggregated timeseries consumption function on PC-Gives
(8.1 Professional), it opens new trails ofresearch. The book is
primarily designed for providing an intuitive understanding of recent
developments in econometrics to nonspecialist econometricians and is
widely adopted by teachers, students and practitioners alik
Foreign Aid, External Debt and Economic Growth Nexus in Low-Income Countries: The Role of Institutional Quality
Full text linkForeign capital and institutional quality simultaneously play
an important role in the development process of low-income countries. By
and large developing nations fell short of funds necessary to spur the
economic growth. Along with this constraint, they are facing the down
fall in the quality of governance. Low earned revenues and high
government expenditure increase the reliance upon the foreign capital
mostly in the form of foreign aid and external debt. Just the
availability of foreign funds is not sufficient to stimulate the
economic growth, there is a need of good governance along with better
quality of institutions that will act as a catalyst and improves the
efficiency of capital, [see for instance, Agnor and Montiel (2010)].
Good governance establishes impartial, predictable and consistently
enforced rules in the form of institutions and thus crucial for the
sustained growth [North (1990 and 1992)]. Those countries which have
good institutions show positive growth rates whenever the stock of
capital increases but the countries with bad institutions, increase in
capital investment may lead to negative growth rates due to rent seeking
and other unproductive activities, Hall, et al. (2010). In this context,
North (1992) argues that the institutions as well as the ideology shape
economic performance. While taking into account the technology used,
institutions affect economic performance by determining the cost of
transaction and production. Formal rules, informal constraints and
characteristics of enforcing those constraints together formulate the
institutions. Institutions affect economic performance and the
differential in performance of economies is basically influenced by the
way institutions evolve. The neoclassical economic theory is of little
help in investigating the sources beneath economic performance because
institutions are taken for granted in their models Agnor and Montiel
(2010)
Inter-linkage between Foreign Direct Investment and Foreign Trade in Pakistan: Are they Complements or Substitute?
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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