Purpose The purpose of this study is to seek to re-examine the threshold effects of public
debt on economic growth in Africa. Design/methodology/approach This study applies panel …

This study examines the asymmetry phenomenon in government spending-growth nexus in
ECOWAS. The study adopts the System Generalized Method of Moment within the …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between the quality of
different dimensions of institutional and economic growth in a panel of 15 member …

This paper considers a robust piecewise linear regression model with an unknown number
of change points. Our estimation framework mainly contains two steps: First, we combine the …

This paper provides an empirical framework to assess the nonlinear complementary linkage
effects that arise from the interaction between motorway capital and information and …

Sleep quality is important for the normal functioning of hormonal and metabolic processes in
the body; however, few studies have considered the effects of both sleep duration and sleep …

The 'tipping point'model of segregation Schelling (1971) has rarely been tested for
socioeconomic variables besides race. Using US Census data from 1970 to 2010, I find …

A bent line quantile regression model can describe the conditional quantile function of the
response variable with two different straight lines, which intersect at an unknown change …

This paper develops new statistical inference methods for the parameters in threshold
regression models. In particular, we develop a test for homogeneity of the threshold …

This paper develops a threshold regression model where an unknown relationship between
two variables nonparametrically determines the threshold. We allow the observations to be …