“…RE as opposed to FE, was tested by way of the Hausman test (Wooldridge, 2002). Assumptions regarding the qualities of the random element were verifi ed by way of the Baltagi-Li Joint Lagrange Multiplier test of homoscedasticity and serial correlation of the random element (Baltagi et al, 2008), the Breusch-Pagan test of homoscedasticity of the random element (Green, 2007), the Wooldridge test of serial correlation of the random element (see Drukker, 2003), the Godfrey Lagrange Multiplier test of serial correlation of the random element (for more, see Green, 2008) and the VIF test of multi-colinearity (Green, 2008).…”