Search Results - subject:"Probit Model"

Determinants of farmers’ choice of coping and adaptation measures to the drought hazard in northwest Balochistan, Pakistan

Ashraf, Muhammad; Routray, Jayant; Saeed, Muhammad - In: Natural Hazards 73 (2014) 3, pp. 1451-1473

influence farmers’ choice for drought-induced adaptation strategies. The study employs a multivariate probit model on 215 farm …

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Prioritizing bicycle paths in Belo Horizonte City, Brazil: Analysis based on user preferences and willingness considering individual heterogeneity

Zhang, Dapeng; Magalhães, David José Ahouagi Vaz; … - In: Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 67 (2014) C, pp. 268-278

Using bicycles as a commuting mode has proven to be beneficial to both urban traffic conditions and travelers’ health. In order to efficiently design facilities and policies that will stimulate bicycle use, it is necessary to first understand people’s attitudes towards bicycle use, and the...

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Corporate Taxes and the Growth of the Firm

Liberini, Federica - KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Department of Management, … - 2014

random parameter probit model estimated on firm-level data. The model's predictions are confirmed by the results from the …

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Customer Service in Rural Banks in Ghana: The Case of Bosomtwe Rural Banks in the Ashanti Region, Ghana

Abawiera, Wongnaa C.; Dwomoh, Gabriel; Owusu, Eric; … - In: International Journal of Academic Research in Business … 4 (2014) 2, pp. 367-378

administered to collect data. Descriptive statistics and probit model were employed in the data analysis. The results showed that …

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Young people and the digital divide in Egypt: an empirical study

Badran, Mona - In: Eurasian Economic Review 4 (2014) 2, pp. 223-250

This paper uses the ordered probit model to empirically assess the determinants of the digital divide in Egypt. A …

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Persistence of physical activity in middle age: a nonlinear dynamic panel approach

Kumagai, Narimasa; Ogura, Seiritsu - In: The European Journal of Health Economics 15 (2014) 7, pp. 717-735

Elderly Persons. Individual heterogeneity was found for both RPA and LHS, and the dynamic random-effects probit model provided …

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Choosing multiple offshoring strategies: Determinants and complementarity

Cho, Janghee; Chun, Hyunbae; Hur, Jung - In: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 34 (2014) C, pp. 42-57

In contrast to the existing offshoring literature that typically views foreign outsourcing and integration as alternative strategies, the simultaneous use of these two offshoring strategies by multinational firms becomes common practice in many countries. In this paper, we employ bivariate...

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Forecasting bank credit ratings

Gogas, Periklis; Papadimitriou, Theophilos; … - In: Journal of Risk Finance 15 (2014) March, pp. 195-209

Purpose – This study aims to present an empirical model designed to forecast bank credit ratings using only quantitative and publicly available information from their financial statements. For this reason, the authors use the long-term ratings provided by Fitch in 2012. The sample consists of...

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Which firms export? An empirical analysis for the manufacturing sector in the MENA region

Fakih, Ali; L. Ghazalian, Pascal - In: Journal of Economic Studies 41 (2014) 5, pp. 672-695

a probit model for export decision and through a fractional logit model for export intensity. Findings – The empirical …

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Stock price discreteness and clustering: decimals and ordered probit model

Kim, Haksoon - In: Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance 22 (2014) 1, pp. 49-60

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to revisit the ordered probit model of Hausman et al. after the NYSE … decimalization. Design/methodology/approach – The changed ordered probit model. Findings – The model can somewhat capture the … decimalization project. Originality/value – First paper to revisit the ordered probit model of Hausman et al. after the NYSE …

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