Search Results - subject:"Duration Models"

On the Timing of Marriage, Cattle and Weather Shocks

Hoogeveen, Hans; van der Klaauw, Bas; van Lomwel, Gijsbert - 2004

In this paper we focus on the timing of marriages of women, whose marriages are associated with bride wealth payments, which are transfers from (the family of) the groom to the bride's family. Unmarried daughters could therefore be considered assets who, at times of need, can be cashed in. We...

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A matter of life and death: Innovation and firm survival

Cefis, Elena; Marsili, Orietta - 2004

This paper examines the effects of innovation on the survival of manufacturing firms in the Netherlands. The demographics of firms according to their innovative performance and type of innovation are traced by using the Business Register population of all firms active in the Netherlands and the...

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Diminishing Impatience: Disentangling Time Preference from Uncertain Lifetime

Halevy, Yoram - Vancouver School of Economics - 2004

A decision maker with time consistent preferences may exhibit diminishing impatience, when uncertain lifetime is accounted for. Uncertain lifetime captures not only the risk of mortality, but also the possibility that a promise for a delayed reward might be breached, or a postponed consumption...

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On the Timing of Marriage, Cattle and Weather Shocks

Hoogeveen, Hans; Klaauw, Bas van der; Lomwel, Gijsbert van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

This discussion paper resulted in an article in 'Economic Development and Cultural Change', 2011, 60, 121-154. <P> In this paper we focus on the timing of marriages of women, whose marriages are associated with bride wealth payments, which are transfers from (the family of) the groom to the bride's...</p>

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A Matter of Life and Death: Innovation and Firm Survival

Cefis, Cefis, E.; Marsili, Marsili, O. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2004

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The Effect of Home-ownership on Labor Mobility in The Netherlands

Leuvensteijn, M. van; Koning, P. - School of Economics, Universiteit Utrecht - 2004

In various macro-studies, home-ownership is found to hamper job mobility and to increase unemployment. This paper addresses similar issues, but uses a microeconometric framework where both individual job mobility, as well as the probability of being homeowner are modeled simultaneously. Using a...

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Estimation of Discrete Time Duration Models with Grouped Data

Honoré, Bo E.; Hu, Luojia - Centre for Applied Microeconometrics (CAM), Økonomisk … - 2004

Dynamic discrete choice panel data models have received a great deal of attention. In those models, the dynamics is usually handled by including the lagged outcome as an explanatory variable. In this paper we consider an alternative model in which the dynamics is handled by using the duration in...

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Explaining and predicting bank failure using duration models: the case of Argentina after the Mexican crisis

Dabós, Marcelo; Escudero, Walter Sosa - In: Revista de Analisis Economico – Economic Analysis Review 19 (2004) 1, pp. 31-49

This paper studies the role played by several bank specific financial indicators in determining the process of bank failure in Argentina after the Mexican crisis known as the "tequila effect". Due to the relative scarcity of previous studies, this paper priorizes the use of semiparametric and...

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On the Timing of Marriage, Cattle and Weather Shocks

Hoogeveen, Hans; Klaauw, Bas van der; Lomwel, Gijsbert van - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

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A Matter of Life and Death: Innovation and Firm Survival

Cefis, E.; Marsili, O. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2004

Firm Survival, Innovation, Firms Exit, Duration models A Matter of Life and Death: Innovation and Firm Survival … environments to the survival of firms. Keywords: Firm Survival; Innovation; Firms Exit; Duration models JEL codes: L11; O30 … the econometric analysis, we estimate different duration models, exploring the factors that shape the survival of …

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