Panel regression for the GDP of the Central and Eastern European countries using time-varying coefficients

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This paper focuses on macroeconomic growth determinants in CEE countries and is primarily relevant for macroeconomic policy analysis and regional economic research. While understanding private debt dynamics and macroeconomic cycles could inform macro-level trading strategies or country risk assessment, the paper does not address financial market microstructure, asset pricing, or trading strategy development directly.

Moderate complexity. Requires understanding of panel econometrics, time-varying coefficient models, orthogonalization via eigendecomposition of correlation matrices, and year-by-year cross-sectional regression. The orthogonalization procedure (principal component transformation and back-transformation) adds implementation steps. However, the core methodology is standard OLS applied per year. Main challenge is the small sample size and ensuring numerical stability.

Data sourced from publicly available databases (Eurostat, World Bank). Calculations performed in Wolfram Mathematica 14.0.0.0. Variable definitions, sources, and transformations clearly documented in Table 1. However, no code repository is provided, and the orthogonalization procedure and year-by-year estimation details would require careful implementation.