Search Results - subject:"Functional Form"

Environmental Kuznets Curves for Carbon Emissions: A Critical Survey

Aslanidis, Nektarios - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

literature. We discuss issues related to the functional form, heterogeneity, “spurious” regressions and spatial dependence to …

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The Missing Link Between Financial Constraints and Productivity

Badia, Marialuz Moreno; Slootmaekers, Veerle - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009

The global financial crisis has reopened the debate on the potential spillover effects from the financial sector to the real economy. This paper adds to that debate by providing new evidence on the link between finance and firm-level productivity, focusing on the case of Estonia. We contribute...

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Banking Stability Measures

Goodhart, C. A. E.; Basurto, Miguel A. Segoviano - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009

This paper defines a set of banking stability measures which take account of distress dependence among the banks in a system, thereby providing a set of tools to analyze stability from complementary perspectives by allowing the measurement of (i) common distress of the banks in a system, (ii)...

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The Volatility Costs of Procyclical Lending Standards; An Assessment Using a Dsge Model

Sgherri, Silvia; Gruss, Bertrand - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009

The ongoing financial turmoil has triggered a lively debate on ways of containing systemic risk and lessening the likelihood of boom-and-bust episodes in credit markets. Particularly, it has been argued that banking regulation might attenuate procyclicality in lending standards by affecting the...

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A Multi-Industry Model of Growth with Financing Constraints

Ilyina, Anna; Samaniego, Roberto M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009

This paper develops a multi-industry growth model in which firms require external funds to conduct productivity-enhancing R&D. The cost of research is industry-specific. The tightness of financing constraints depends on the level of financial development and on industry characteristics. Over...

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Trends and group differences in the association between educational attainment and U.S. adult mortality: Implications for understanding education's causal influence

Hayward, Mark D.; Hummer, Robert A.; Sasson, Isaac - In: Social Science & Medicine 127 (2015) C, pp. 8-18

changes should be reflected in changes in the functional form of the association between educational attainment and mortality …. We review the historical evidence on the changing functional form of the association, drawing on studies based in the … also provide an updated analysis of these functional form patterns and trends, contrasting data from the early 21st Century …

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Matching as a regression estimator : matching avoids making assumptions about the functional form of the regression equation, making analysis more reliable

Black, Dan A. - 2015

"Matching" is a statistical technique used to evaluate the effect of a treatment by comparing the treated and non-treated units in an observational study. Matching provides an alternative to older estimation methods, such as ordinary least squares (OLS), which involves strong assumptions that...

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Microproduction functions with unique coefficients and errors : a reconsideration and respecification

Swamy, Paravastu A. V. B.; Tavlas, George S.; Hall, … - In: Macroeconomic dynamics 19 (2015) 2, pp. 311-333

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Functional form of connections between perceived service quality, customer satisfaction and customer loyalty in the automotive servicing industry

Ažman, Slavko; Gomišček, Boštjan - In: Total quality management & business excellence : an … 26 (2015) 7/8, pp. 888-904

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Selected readings on econometrics methodology, 2001-2010 : causality, measure of variables, dynamic models and -economic approaches to growth and development

Guisán, María-Carmen - In: Applied econometrics and international development 15 (2015) 2, pp. 213-220

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