Search Results - subject:"specification."

Hegre, Håvard - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 52 (2008) 4, pp. 566-589

Countries have better abilities and stronger incentives to engage in militarized conflicts the larger and more powerful they are. The article applies Zipf's notion of a ``gravity model'' to the risk of interstate conflict and argues that the empirical relationship between size and distance and...

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Smooth Transition Autoregressive Models -- New Approaches to the Model Selection Problem

Maringer, Dietmar; Meyer, Mark - In: Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics 12 (2008) 1, pp. 1469-1469

heuristic approaches within the STAR modeling cycle. In particular for the case of STAR model specification, an application of …

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Country‐of‐origin contingencies : Competing perspectives on product familiarity and product involvement

Josiassen, Alexander; Lukas, Bryan A.; Whitwell, Gregory J. - In: International Marketing Review 25 (2008) 4, pp. 423-440

Purpose – This study was undertaken to clarify how product familiarity and product involvement can moderate the importance that consumers place on COO image when they evaluate products for purchase or consumption. The authors adopted a contingency approach and empirically examined, by way of...

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A spatial J-test for model specification against a single or a set of non-nested alternatives

Kelejian, Harry - In: Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences 1 (2008) 1, pp. 3-11

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Explaining obesity with urban form: a cautionary tale

Bodea, Tudor; Garrow, Laurie; Meyer, Michael; Ross, … - In: Transportation 35 (2008) 2, pp. 179-199

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Optimal Instrumental Variables Generators Based on Improved Hausman Regression, with an Application to Hedge Funds Returns

Racicot, Francois-Éric; Théoret, Raymond - Départment des sciences administratives, Université … - 2008

signalling the presence of specification errors in financial models. We apply our battery of tests and estimators to a sample of … 22 HFR hedge fund indices observed monthly over the period 1990-2005. Our tests reveal that specification errors corrupt … sensitive to the choice of estimators. Our new indicator of specification errors reveals itself very powerful to detect those …

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Monte Carlo Appraisals of Gravity Model Specifications

Schaefer, Kurt; Anderson, Michael; Ferrantino, Michael - In: Global Economy Journal 8 (2008) 1, pp. 2-2

Many improvements have been proposed for the basic gravity model specification, most of which are confirmed by standard …

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The implications of incorrect utility function specification for welfare measurement in choice experiments

Figuerola, Catalina M. Torres; Hanley, Nick; Font, … - Centre de Recerca Econòmica (UIB ·"Sa Nostra") - 2008

specification of both non-monetary attributes and the marginal utility of income. Monte Carlo experiments have been conducted … experimental designs and continuous-linear specifications makes attribute specification irrelevant for measuring attribute marginal …

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The Structure of US Food Demand

LaFrance, Jeffrey - School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University - 2008

evidence of serial correlation, specification errors, or parameter instability is found. …

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Materials, Specification and Economic Implications of Moving to Carbon-Neutral Housing

Menon, Rosalie; Porteous, Colin D. A. - In: Open House International 33 (2008) 3, pp. 48-59

respects. A key aim is to assess whether specification for a ‘low-carbon house’ can be cost effective. An analysis is …. The specification of the building envelope and associated renewable technologies are addressed with reference to their …

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