Thanasis Stengos
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1001676 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Thanasis Stengos |
| PRENOMES | Thanasis |
| SOBRENOME | Stengos |
| ASSINATURA | STENGOS T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Guelph |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7771-1121 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1991 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Spatial Nexus
Endogenous Kink Threshold Regression
This article considers an endogenous kink threshold regression model with an unknown threshold value in a time series as well as a panel data framework, where both the threshold variable and regressors are allowed to be endogenous. We construct our estimators from a nonparametric control function approach and derive the consistency and asymptotic distribution of our proposed estimators. Monte Carlo simulations are used to assess the finite sample…
Heterogeneity of institutions and model uncertainty in the income inequality nexus
This study revisits the drivers of income inequality with political institutions at the core. We take a multidimensional institutional approach by defining political institutions in terms of governance, political freedom, political fragmentation and political scale. We carry out an extensive empirical analysis of the role of political institutions by decomposing it into distinct elements and providing available proxies for each dimension. Conside…
Bribery, regulation and firm performance
Firm-level bribery and regulation are two of the many determinants of firm performance. However, most of the existing studies examine the direct and linear effects of bribery and regulation and overlook their indirect effects. Using firm-level data, covering 20,343 firms in 78 developing countries, and employing a threshold model, the effects of firm performance’s standard determinants vary based on the bribery and regulation levels. Our findings…
Bribery, on-the-job training, and firm performance
The previous literature has extensively examined the effect of firm-level bribery on firm performance but not through on-the-job training. This paper investigates the impact of paying bribes on the firm’s investment decisions in on-the-job training and offers mediating implications of corruption on firm performance. We empirically examine the relationship between bribery and on-the-job training using firm-level data from the World Bank Enterprise…
Threshold effects during the Covid-19 pandemic crisis
The empirical analysis employs a static threshold model using a daily dataset over the six months from the first confirmed European COVID-19 case (25 January 2020). The results indicate that the investigated relationship is non-monotonic (‘U-shaped’) depending on the intensity of the lockdown measures proxied by the Coronavirus Government Response Tracker Index (CGR)
What shapes the delay in the Nobel Prize discoveries? A research note
Measuring the presence of organized crime across Italian provinces
The existing literature identifies different indicators to construct organized crime indices and places equal importance to different concepts of organized crime. This paper examines the sensitivity of organized crime across Italian provinces when different set of indicators and weights are used to combine crime indicators. Our findings suggest that there is a remarkable variation in the distribution of organized crime across Italian provinces ba…
Revisiting the link between output growth and volatility
Are Aid Flows Excessive or Insufficient? Estimating the Growth Impact of Aid in Threshold Regressions
Existing empirical studies and policy reports provide ambiguous results on the growth effect of foreign aid flows in the recipient countries. The present paper examines whether there exists an aid threshold that determines the growth impact of foreign aid. We use a threshold regression methodology to estimate growth specifications and the associated aid thresholds in a sample of 42 aid recipients covering the period 1970–2000. Our findings indica…
Estimates of the Black Economy Based on Consumer Demand Approaches
We propose a consumer demand system approach to estimating the size of the black economy where alternative hypotheses affecting the empirical results can be tested in a nested framework. This approach allows for the estimation of the under‐reporting of household income from various sources, dispensing with the need to use arbitrary criteria to classify households by their main source of income. It also avoids potential bias in black economy estim…
The Environmental Kuznets Curve
We explore the importance of modeling strategies when estimating the emissions-income relationship. Using U.S. state-level panel data on nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide emissions, we estimate several environmental Kuznets curves using the standard parametric framework as well as a more flexible semiparametric alternative. Formal statistical comparisons of the results overwhelmingly reject the parametric approach. Moreover, the differences, part…
Wage Rigidity in Canadian Collective Bargaining Agreements
The authors search information on the provisions of 10,947 wage contracts signed in the Canadian unionized sector between 1976 and 1999 for evidence of downward nominal wage rigidity (the disinclination of wages to fall, in nominal dollars, below their established level). Over the sample period, real wage reductions were common, but nominal wage reductions were rare. The probability of downward nominal wage rigidity increased substantially during…
Preference Heterogeneity and the Rank of Demand Systems
This article examines the effect of preference heterogeneity on nonparametric and parametric tests of the rank of demand systems. Using samples of households drawn from the U.K. Family Expenditure Survey, we find that preference heterogeneity increases the rank of demand systems. When the effects of household characteristics on demand are removed by semiparametric techniques, a rank-3 demand system appears to be an adequate empirical specificatio…
Economic Integration and Public Policy in the European Union
Part I European integration - general issues and problems. Part II Empirical and theoretical analyses of the monetary union. Part III Social policy reform and social union. Part IV Public finance in the European Union. Part V European Union - policies and accession. Part VI Greece and the European Union
Rejoinder Segmented Trend Models of Canadian Economic Growth
Nonlinear Dynamics Chaos and Econometrics
Partial table of contents: Complex Economic Dynamics: Obvious in History, Generic in Theory, Elusive in Data (R. Day). Merger Waves and the Structure of Merger and Acquisition Time-Series (R. Town). Nonlinear Dynamics in a Structural Model of Employment (S. Burgess). Forecast Improvements Using a Volatility Index (B. LeBaron). Multivariate Nearest-Neighbor Forecasts of EMS Exchange Rates (B. Mizrach). Nonlinear Time-Series Analysis of Stock Volat…
Discontinuities in Canadian economic growth, 1870–1985
Estimates of the Black Economy Based on Consumer Demand Approaches
We propose a consumer demand system approach to estimating the size of the black economy where alternative hypotheses affecting the empirical results can be tested in a nested framework. This approach allows for the estimation of the under‐reporting of household income from various sources, dispensing with the need to use arbitrary criteria to classify households by their main source of income. It also avoids potential bias in black economy estim…
Discontinuities in Canadian economic growth, 1870–1985
Rejoinder Segmented Trend Models of Canadian Economic Growth
Economic Integration and Public Policy in the European Union
Part I European integration - general issues and problems. Part II Empirical and theoretical analyses of the monetary union. Part III Social policy reform and social union. Part IV Public finance in the European Union. Part V European Union - policies and accession. Part VI Greece and the European Union
Discontinuities in Canadian economic growth, 1870–1985
Nonlinear Dynamics Chaos and Econometrics
Partial table of contents: Complex Economic Dynamics: Obvious in History, Generic in Theory, Elusive in Data (R. Day). Merger Waves and the Structure of Merger and Acquisition Time-Series (R. Town). Nonlinear Dynamics in a Structural Model of Employment (S. Burgess). Forecast Improvements Using a Volatility Index (B. LeBaron). Multivariate Nearest-Neighbor Forecasts of EMS Exchange Rates (B. Mizrach). Nonlinear Time-Series Analysis of Stock Volat…
Rejoinder Segmented Trend Models of Canadian Economic Growth
Economic Integration and Public Policy in the European Union
Part I European integration - general issues and problems. Part II Empirical and theoretical analyses of the monetary union. Part III Social policy reform and social union. Part IV Public finance in the European Union. Part V European Union - policies and accession. Part VI Greece and the European Union
Preference Heterogeneity and the Rank of Demand Systems
This article examines the effect of preference heterogeneity on nonparametric and parametric tests of the rank of demand systems. Using samples of households drawn from the U.K. Family Expenditure Survey, we find that preference heterogeneity increases the rank of demand systems. When the effects of household characteristics on demand are removed by semiparametric techniques, a rank-3 demand system appears to be an adequate empirical specificatio…
The Environmental Kuznets Curve
We explore the importance of modeling strategies when estimating the emissions-income relationship. Using U.S. state-level panel data on nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide emissions, we estimate several environmental Kuznets curves using the standard parametric framework as well as a more flexible semiparametric alternative. Formal statistical comparisons of the results overwhelmingly reject the parametric approach. Moreover, the differences, part…
Wage Rigidity in Canadian Collective Bargaining Agreements
The authors search information on the provisions of 10,947 wage contracts signed in the Canadian unionized sector between 1976 and 1999 for evidence of downward nominal wage rigidity (the disinclination of wages to fall, in nominal dollars, below their established level). Over the sample period, real wage reductions were common, but nominal wage reductions were rare. The probability of downward nominal wage rigidity increased substantially during…
Estimates of the Black Economy Based on Consumer Demand Approaches
We propose a consumer demand system approach to estimating the size of the black economy where alternative hypotheses affecting the empirical results can be tested in a nested framework. This approach allows for the estimation of the under‐reporting of household income from various sources, dispensing with the need to use arbitrary criteria to classify households by their main source of income. It also avoids potential bias in black economy estim…
Are Aid Flows Excessive or Insufficient? Estimating the Growth Impact of Aid in Threshold Regressions
Existing empirical studies and policy reports provide ambiguous results on the growth effect of foreign aid flows in the recipient countries. The present paper examines whether there exists an aid threshold that determines the growth impact of foreign aid. We use a threshold regression methodology to estimate growth specifications and the associated aid thresholds in a sample of 42 aid recipients covering the period 1970–2000. Our findings indica…
Measuring the presence of organized crime across Italian provinces
The existing literature identifies different indicators to construct organized crime indices and places equal importance to different concepts of organized crime. This paper examines the sensitivity of organized crime across Italian provinces when different set of indicators and weights are used to combine crime indicators. Our findings suggest that there is a remarkable variation in the distribution of organized crime across Italian provinces ba…
Revisiting the link between output growth and volatility
Threshold effects during the Covid-19 pandemic crisis
The empirical analysis employs a static threshold model using a daily dataset over the six months from the first confirmed European COVID-19 case (25 January 2020). The results indicate that the investigated relationship is non-monotonic (‘U-shaped’) depending on the intensity of the lockdown measures proxied by the Coronavirus Government Response Tracker Index (CGR)
What shapes the delay in the Nobel Prize discoveries? A research note
Bribery, on-the-job training, and firm performance
The previous literature has extensively examined the effect of firm-level bribery on firm performance but not through on-the-job training. This paper investigates the impact of paying bribes on the firm’s investment decisions in on-the-job training and offers mediating implications of corruption on firm performance. We empirically examine the relationship between bribery and on-the-job training using firm-level data from the World Bank Enterprise…
Bribery, regulation and firm performance
Firm-level bribery and regulation are two of the many determinants of firm performance. However, most of the existing studies examine the direct and linear effects of bribery and regulation and overlook their indirect effects. Using firm-level data, covering 20,343 firms in 78 developing countries, and employing a threshold model, the effects of firm performance’s standard determinants vary based on the bribery and regulation levels. Our findings…
Spatial Nexus
Endogenous Kink Threshold Regression
This article considers an endogenous kink threshold regression model with an unknown threshold value in a time series as well as a panel data framework, where both the threshold variable and regressors are allowed to be endogenous. We construct our estimators from a nonparametric control function approach and derive the consistency and asymptotic distribution of our proposed estimators. Monte Carlo simulations are used to assess the finite sample…
Heterogeneity of institutions and model uncertainty in the income inequality nexus
This study revisits the drivers of income inequality with political institutions at the core. We take a multidimensional institutional approach by defining political institutions in terms of governance, political freedom, political fragmentation and political scale. We carry out an extensive empirical analysis of the role of political institutions by decomposing it into distinct elements and providing available proxies for each dimension. Conside…
Economics (16 obras) · Econometrics (11 obras) · Mathematics (8 obras) · Computer Science (6 obras) · Statistics (5 obras) · Microeconomics (4 obras) · Political science (4 obras) · Business (3 obras) · Corruption and Economic Development (3 obras) · Economic Growth and Development (3 obras)