In this paper, a general Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition is derived that can also be applied to non-linear models, which …

/methodology/approach – Hierarchical linear models, comprising customer observations nested within regions, were developed to explore whether there is any …

schools in districts) hierarchical linear models of science achievement. Relevant student- and school-level pretest and …

The debate on the forecasting ability of non-linear models has a long history, and the Great Recession episode provides … large panel of countries. It turns out that, on average, non-linear models cannot outperform standard linear specifications …, even during the Great Recession. However, non-linear models lead to an improvement of the predictive accuracy in almost 40 …