Search Results - subject:"Probit model."

Disclosure risk from interactions and saturated models in remote access

Ronning, Gerd - 2011

the exponential family (probit model and negative binomial regression model) we show that the same estimates of the …

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Shocks and Coping Strategies of Rural Households: Evidence from Ogo-Oluwa Local Government, Oyo State, Nigeria

Olalekan, Olawuyi Seyi; Olapade-Ogunwole, Fola; Raufu, … - In: International Journal of Agricultural Management and … 01 (2011) 4

Rural households in Nigeria are vulnerable to shock because of their limited capacity to make informed decision on secured coping strategies which is further aggravated by some householdsâ€™ specific socio-economic characteristics. Attempts were made to identify shocks being faced by...

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Analysis of housing choice using multinomial probit model – Bayesian estimation

Park, Sang Soo; Lee, Chung-Ki - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

We employ a multinomial probit model to understand the housing choice of Koreans, more specifically to understand the …

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Reducing Rents from Energy Technology Adoption Programs by Exploiting Observable Information

Aalbers, R.F.T.; Vollebergh, H.R.J.; de Groot, H.L.F. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2011

In this paper, we study how regulators may improve upon the efficiency of their energy technology adoption programs by exploiting readily observable information to limit rent extraction by firms. Using panel data on 862 investment decisions in the Netherlands, we find that rent extraction is...

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Exploring National Concerted Practices in an Open Small Economy : What Does the Change in the Competition Law in the Netherlands Reveal?

Ozbugday, F.C. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2011

consists of anti-competitive agreements that were subject of an antitrust immunity behavior. Our bivariate probit model with … on the existence of collusion across Dutch industries during the late 1990s and early 2000s. The results of the Probit … model with sample selection indicate that our sample of Dutch concerted practices is non-random in the sense that it only …

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Conflits armés, inégalités et pauvreté : quelles interactions dans la région nord du Niger ?

Daouda, Youssoufou Hamadou - In: Revue d'économie régionale et urbaine décembre (2011) 5, pp. 831-848

The armed conflicts of Northern Niger are often presented as having identity or political motives, while socio-economic factors have seldom been taken into account. By contrast, the literature increasingly underlines their importance. This paper attempts to make a connection between the factors...

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Intra-Firm Diffusion of Innovation: Evidence from Tunisian SME's in Matters of Information and Communication Technologies

Youssef, Adel Ben; Hadhri, Walid; M'Henni, Hatem - HAL - 2011

The aim of this paper is twofold: first, we want to explore the intra-firm diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICT) within the Tunisian firms and to characterize its general trends of adoption and usage. Second, we want to emphasize the rank and epidemic effects stressed by...

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¿Que tan predecible es la política monetaria? Un análisis econométrico del contenido informativo de los comunicados del Banco de México

Cermeño, Rodolfo; Navarrete, Claudia - Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) - 2011

In this paper we investigate whether the communication bias of the Bank of Mexico provides information that helps to anticipate the course of monetary policy in subsequent periods. We first construct an objective index of the communication bias, based upon an statistical analysis of key terms...

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Disclosure Risk from Interactions and Saturated Models in Remote Access

Ronning, Gerd - Institut für Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung (IAW) - 2011

the exponential family (probit model and negative binomial regression model) we show that the same estimates of the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010762070

Media bias and central bank response. Evidence from the nominal exchange rate behavior in Colombia

Taborda, Rodrigo - UNIVERSIDAD DEL ROSARIO - 2011

Colombia introduced a market-determined Nominal Exchange Rate (NER) with the US Dollar in 1991, after more than 20 years of controlled and multiple exchange rates. The first nine years the NER was set by an exchange rate band system, since 1999 the exchange rate is determined in a dirty float"...

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