range of countries at different stages of economic development. The empirical results from threshold estimation identify two …. The results from panel threshold regression show that there exists a positive and significant relationship between …

economic development in 159 countries over the period 1989-2008. The results from panel threshold regressions show a positive … relationship between economic growth and tourism. Instrumental variable estimation of a threshold regression is used to quantify …

exogeneity, the standard method of estimation is nonlinear least squares. The primary purpose of this paper is to relax the … endogeneity, developing an estimation procedure and a misspecification test for the STR model, presenting the results of Monte … Carlo simulations to show the usefulness of the model and estimation method, and providing an empirical application for …

and knowledge. In this paper, we use a panel data set of 40 countries from 1981 to 2008 and a negative binomial model …