Search Results - subject:"Duration Models"

What determines the length of a typical Canadian parliamentary government?

Ferris, Stephen; Voia, Marcel - Carleton University, Department of Economics - 2008

In this paper we examine the length of political tenure in Canadian federally elected parliamentary governments since 1867. Using data on tenure length, we categorize the distribution of governing tenures in terms of a hazard function--the probability that an election will arise in each year,...

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Unemployment Duration among Immigrants and Natives: Unobserved Heterogeneity in a Multi-Spell Duration Model

Carrasco, Raquel; Pérez, José Ignacio García - Departamento de Economía, Universidad Pablo de Olavide - 2008

Spain, we estimate multiple-spell discrete duration models which disentangle unobserved heterogeneity from duration …

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Death as a measure of duration of conflict

Ogus, Ayla; Akdede, Sacit Hadi - Ekonomi Bölümü, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi - 2008

. Key Words: Duration models; violence and wars JEL Classification: C41; H56, N40. Ayla Ogus Department of … violence have more deaths than civil violence? These questions are answered within the framework of duration models which is a … whether they have a different length of duration in terms of deaths and years. We employ duration models to analyze the …

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La survie des nouvelles entreprises culturelles : Le rôle du regroupement géographique

Greffe, Xavier; Simonnet, Véronique - In: Recherches économiques de Louvain 74 (2008) 3, pp. 327-357

<titre traitementparticulier="non">Abstract</titre> This paper uses data from the Information System on New Firms (Système d?information sur les nouvelles entreprises, SINE) to study the determinants of cultural firms? lifetime in France. 47.5% of cultural firms started since 1998 have not survived their sixth year in business. This...

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STRATEGIC ONLINE-BANKING ADOPTION

Llobet, Gerard; Hernández-Murillo, Rubén; Fuentes, Roberto - Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) - 2008

In this paper we study the determinants of banks’ decision to adopt a transactional website for their customers. Using a panel of commercial banks in the United States for the period 2003-2006, we show that although bank-specific characteristics are important determinants of banks’ adoption...

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The duration of economic expansions and recessions: More than duration dependence

Castro, Vítor - Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas … - 2008

One widespread idea in the business cycles literature is taht the older is an expansion or contraction, the more likely it is to end. This paper tries to provide further empirical support for this idea of positive duration dependence and, at the same time, control for the effects of other...

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Parameter Driven Multi-state Duration Models: Simulated vs. Approximate Maximum Likelihood Estimation

Monteiro, André A. - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

Likelihood based inference for multi-state latent factor intensity models is hindered by the fact that exact closed-form expressions for the implied data density are not available. This is a common and well-known problem for most parameter driven dynamic econometric models. This paper reviews,...

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The duration of economic expansions and recessions : More than duration dependence

Castro, Vítor - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2008

One widespread idea in the business cycles literature is that the older is an expansion or contraction, the more likely it is to end. This paper tries to provide further empirical support for this idea of positive duration dependence and, at the same time, control for the effects of other...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005146894

Correct Specification and Identification of Nonparametric Transformation Models

Chiappori, Pierre-André; Komunjer, Ivana - Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics, … - 2008

This paper derives necessary and sufficient conditions for nonparametric transformation models to be (i) correctly specified, and (ii) identified. Our correct specification conditions come in a form of partial differential equations; when satisfied by the true distribution, they ensure that the...

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Delays in Sovereign Debt Restructurings. Should we really blame the creditors?

Trebesch, Christoph - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2008

-parametric duration models. The results indicate that holdouts, inter-creditor disputes and litigation explain some of the observed …

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