▪ Abstract Policy makers in democracies have strong partisan and electoral incentives
regarding the amount, nature, and timing of economic-policy activity. Given these incentives …

While R is the software of choice and the undisputed leader in many fields of statistics, this is
not so in econometrics; yet, its popularity is rising both among researchers and in university …

We examine some issues in the estimation of time-series cross-section models, calling into
question the conclusions of many published studies, particularly in the field of comparative …

Multilevel data are structures that consist of multiple units of analysis, one nested within the
other. Such data are becoming quite common in political science and provide numerous …

This crossnational study seeks to explain variations in governmental repression of human
rights to personal integrity (state terrorism) in a 153-country sample during the eighties. We …

Here we seek to build on our earlier research (Poe and Tate, 1994) by re-testing similar
models on a data set covering a much longer time span; the period from 1976 to 1993 …

Given the increased openness of countries to international trade and financial flows, the
general public and the scholarly literature have grown skeptical about the capacity of policy …

The “Huber Sandwich Estimator” can be used to estimate the variance of the MLE when the
underlying model is incorrect. If the model is nearly correct, so are the usual standard errors …

Formal acceptance of international agreements on human rights has progressed to the point
where currently over three-quarters of the UN member states are parties to the International …

Plans for the European Monetary Union (EMU) are based on the conventional postulate that
increasing the independence of the central bank can reduce inflation without any real …