Search Results - subject:"Probit Model"

A Simple Representation of the Bera-Jarque-Lee Test for Probit Models

Wilde, Joachim - Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle (IWH) - 2007

with the RESET-type test proposed by Papke and Wooldridge (1996). Keywords: probit model, Lagrange multiplier test … estimator of the probit model is mostly biased for nonnormal disturbances (cf. Greene 2003, p. 673). One reason might be that … the test of Bera, Jarque, and Lee (1984). It only requires the estimation of a probit model and some standard …

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Microeconomic analysis of unemployment persistence in Belgium

Plasman, Robert Alain; Gangji, Amynah Vanessa - Département d'Économie Appliquée (DULBEA), Solvay … - 2007

recruitment and labour retention practices. The model used is a dynamic random effects probit model controlling for unobserved …

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Financial Liberalisation, Crises, and Economic Growth

Lee, Inkoo; Shin, Jonghyup - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007

It has been widely recognized that financial liberalization plays an important role in economic development. Although an expanding body of literature has documented this effect across space and time, the channel through which financial liberalization affects the economic growth remains unclear....

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Awareness and the Demand of Safe Drinking Water Practices

Ahmed, Eatzaz; Sattar, Abdul - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007

The demand for environmental goods is often low in developing countries. The major causes are awareness regarding the contamination of water and poverty, but less attention has been paid to the former reason. We use a household survey from Hyderabad city and estimate the contribution of...

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Models of Banks Ratings

Peresetsky, Анатолий Пересецкий; … - In: Applied Econometrics 5 (2007) 1, pp. 3-19

The paper studies the banks ratings models developed by using publicly available financial indicators. Models for Moody’s ratings of long-term deposits in foreign currency are constructed. The database includes banks financial data of emerging markets and the European Union. Additionally,...

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Unter welchen Umständen würden deutsche Landwirte gentechnisch veränderten Raps anbauen? Ein Discrete-Choice-Experiment

Breustedt, Gunnar; Muller-Scheessel, Jorg; … - In: German Journal of Agricultural Economics 56 (2007) 7

with 217 oilseed rape growers in Germany. The determinants of adoption were estimated with the use of a multinomial probit … model. Results indicate a significant impact of economic determinants on the adoption willingness: the difference in gross …

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Dynamic Panel Probit Models for Current Account Reversals and Their Efficient Estimation

Liesenfeld, Roman; Moura, Guilherme valle; Richard, … - 2007

We use panel probit models with unobserved heterogeneity and serially correlated errors in order to analyze the determinants and the dynamics of current-account reversals for a panel of developing and emerging countries. The likelihood evaluation of these models requires high-dimensional...

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Job Disamenities, Job Satisfaction, Quit Intentions, and Actual Separations : Putting the Pieces Together

Böckerman, Petri; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - 2007

We analyze the potential role of adverse working conditions at the workplace in the determination of employees' quit behavior. Our data contain both detailed information on perceived job disamenities, job satisfaction, and quit intentions from a cross-section survey and information on employees'...

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Black and White Women's Employment Rates : Disaggregated Decomposition in Probit and Linear Probability Models

Mergoupis, Thanos - 2007

The working age populations of black and white women in the US differ substantially in terms of their demographic characteristics and in the ways these characteristics relate to employment. The effects of these differences on the probability of employment have not been quantified in the context...

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Export Barriers : What are They and Who Do They Matter To?

Kneller, Richard; Pisu, Mauro - 2007

The recent literature on firm exporting behaviour has established that both sunk-cost of exports and firm characteristics, such as size and productivity matter. In this paper we provide fresh evidence on the actual barriers to exporting firms face and how they vary with export experience and...

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