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Economics and Finance
UK
2024

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
59
Citations
27955
World Ranking
847
National Ranking
93

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Ronald Smith is affiliated with Birkbeck, University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, with specific focus on subfields such as Economics and Econometrics, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Finance, Management Science and Operations Research, and General Health Professions.

Their work covers a range of topics including Monetary Policy and Economic Impact, Spatial and Panel Data Analysis, Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth, Financial Markets and Investment Strategies, Forecasting Techniques and Applications, Economic Growth and Productivity, and Economic Theories and Models.

Smith has contributed to a number of recent scholarly papers including:

  • "Revisiting the Great Ratios Hypothesis*" (2023), published in Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
  • "Disability and multidimensional quality of life: A capability approach to health status assessment" (2020), published in Health Economics
  • "Debt, Deficits and Defence: The UK Experience 1700-2016" (2020), published in Defence and Peace Economics
  • "Econometric Aspects of Convergence: A Survey" (2024), published in Open Economies Review
  • "China's money demand in a cointegrating vector error correction model" (2021), published in Journal of Asian Economics

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, with notable coauthors including M. Hashem Pesaran, Alexander Chudík, Paul Anand, Laurence Roope, and Anthony J. Culyer.

Smith's publications regularly appear in several academic venues, notably:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
  • Econometrics and Statistics
  • Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Working Papers

In addition to journal publications, Smith has contributed to book literature, including a publication with Cambridge University Press titled "Defence Acquisition and Procurement" released in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Pooled Mean Group Estimation of Dynamic Heterogeneous Panels

    M. Hashem Pesaran;Yongcheol Shin;Ron P. Smith

  • Estimating long-run relationships from dynamic heterogeneous panels☆

    M.Hashem Pesaran;Ron Smith

  • GROWTH AND CONVERGENCE IN A MULTI-COUNTRY EMPIRICAL STOCHASTIC SOLOW MODEL

    Kevin Lee;M. Hashem Pesaran;M. Hashem Pesaran;Ron Smith

  • Structural Analysis of Cointegrating VARs

    M. Hashem Pesaran;Ron P. Smith

  • Military Expenditure and Growth in Less Developed Countries

    Saadet Deger;Ron Smith

  • Models of military expenditure and growth: a critical review

    J. Paul Dunne;Ron P. Smith;Dirk Willenbockel

  • Capabilities and Well-Being: Evidence Based on the Sen–Nussbaum Approach to Welfare

    Paul Anand;Graham Hunter;Ron Smith

  • The English Football Industry: Profit, Performance and Industrial Structure

    Stefan Szymanski;Ron Smith

  • Military expenditure and capitalism

    R. P. Smith

  • Current Account Solvency and the Feldstein--Horioka Puzzle

    Jerry Coakley;Farida Kulasi;Ron Smith

  • Real exchange rate effects on the balance of trade: cointegration and the Marshall–Lerner condition

    Derick Boyd;Gugielmo Maria Caporale;Ron Smith

  • The Feldstein–Horioka puzzle and capital mobility: a review

    Jerry Coakley;Farida Kulasi;Ron Smith

  • Military expenditure and investment in OECD countries, 1954–1973

    Ronald P Smith

  • Dynamic Linear Models for Heterogenous Panels

    Hashem Pesaran;Ron Smith;Kyung So Im

  • Pooled estimation of long-run relationships in dynamic heterogeneous panels

    M. H. Pesaran;Y. Shin;R. P. Smith

  • Growth Empirics: A Panel Data Approach—A Comment

    Kevin Lee;M. Hashem Pesaran;Ron Smith

  • Unobserved heterogeneity in panel time series models

    Jerry Coakley;Ana-María Fuertes;Ron Smith

  • ON ERROR CORRECTION MODELS: SPECIFICATION, INTERPRETATION, ESTIMATION

    George Alogoskoufis;Ron Smith

  • The Demand for Military Expenditure

    R. P. Smith

  • Models of military expenditure

    R. P. Smith

  • Pooled Mean Group Estimation of Dynamic Heterogeneous Panels

    Yongcheol Shin;Ron P Smith;Mohammad Hashem Pesaran

Frequent Co-Authors

M. Hashem Pesaran
M. Hashem Pesaran University of Cambridge
Paul Levine
Paul Levine University of Surrey
Ana-Maria Fuertes
Ana-Maria Fuertes City, University of London
Stefan Szymanski
Stefan Szymanski University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Gary Koop
Gary Koop University of Strathclyde
Anthony J. Culyer
Anthony J. Culyer University of York
Yongcheol Shin
Yongcheol Shin University of York
Miles Hewstone
Miles Hewstone University of Oxford
Ed Cairns
Ed Cairns University of Ulster
Yongsoon Shin
Yongsoon Shin Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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