Singapore Management University Internal Research Grant entitled: “Inferences for Spatial Dynamic Panel Data Models with Applications,” with Zhenlin Yang (Principal Investigator), 2016.

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Economic & Social Research Council, (ESCRC) and DFID funded Project entitled: “Politics, Growth and Finance,” University of Leicester, with S. Andrianova (Principal Investigator), P. Demetriades, D. Fielding, et al., 2012.

 

Economic & Social Research Council, (ESCRC), RES-000-22-2774, "The Political Economy of African Financial (Under)-Development," University of Leicester, with S. Andrianova, P. Demetriades and D. Fielding, 2008.

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European Union Center Grant, "Intra-and Extra Euro Area Import Demand--Has the Euro Made a Difference?" 2005.

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Bush Program in Economics of Public Policy, "Homogeneous, Heterogeneous or Shrinkage Estimators? Some Empirical Evidence from French Regional Gasoline Consumption," 2001.

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Bush Program in Economics of Public Policy, "The Econometrics of Spatial Panel Data Models," 2000.

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Texas Advanced Research Program, "Liquor Consumption:  The Relative Impact of Different Social Control Devices," 1999.

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Bush Program in Economics of Public Policy, "Empirical Tests of the Rational Addiction Model" 1998.

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Bush Program in Economics of Public Policy, "The Econometrics of Rational Addiction:  The Case of Cigarettes," 1998.

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Naomi Lewis Faculty Fellowship in Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University, 1992-1993.

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Texas Advanced Research Program, "The Effects of Airline Deregulation on Costs and Technical Change," 1991.

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Texas Advanced Research Program, "Cigarette Taxation: Raising Revenues and Reducing Consumption," 1989.

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Energy Laboratory, University of Houston, "A General Index of Technical Change:  The Case of Steam-Electric Generation," 1986.

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Advanced Research Grant Program, University of Houston, "Pooling Incomplete Time Series of Cross-Section Data Using Unbalanced ANOVA Designs" 1985.

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Research Initiation Grant, University of Houston, 1980.