Search Results - subject:"switching regression"

Foreign (in)direct investment and corporate taxation

Wamser, Georg - 2008

choice - direct versus indirect - is taken into account by a switching regression approach. …

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Self-Selection and Subjective Well-Being: Copula Models with an Application to Public and Private Sector Work

Luechinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2008

We discuss a new approach to specifying and estimating ordered probit models with endogenous switching, or with binary endogenous regressor, based on copula functions. These models provide a framework of analysis for self-selection in economic well-being equations, where assigment of regressors...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600780

Foreign (in)direct investment and corporate taxation

Wamser, Georg - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2008

choice - direct versus indirect - is taken into account by a switching regression approach. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005083123

Self-Selection and Subjective Well-Being: Copula Models with an Application to Public and Private Sector Work

Luechinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois; Winkelmann, Rainer - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017482

The Empirics of Banking Regulation

TCHANA TCHANA, Fulbert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper assesses empirically whether banking regulation is effective at preventing banking crises. We use a monthly index of banking system fragility, which captures almost every source of risk in the banking system, to estimate the effect of regulatory measures (entry restriction, reserve...

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Are There Waves in Merger Activity After All?

Gärtner, Dennis L.; Halbheer, Daniel - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2008

This paper investigates the merger wave hypothesis for the US and the UK employing a Markov regime switching model. Using quarterly data covering the last thirty years, for the US, we identify the beginning of a merger wave in the mid 1990s but not the much-discussed 1980s merger wave. We argue...

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Relaxing Rural Constraints: a ‘Win-Win’ Policy for Poverty and Environment in China?

Groom, Ben; Grosjean, Pauline; Kontoleon, Andreas; … - Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge - 2008

test this, a novel empirical approach is employed which combines a switching regression with difference in differences … constraints are relaxed. To test this, a novel empirical approach is employed which combines a switching regression with �di …, local separability, Sloping Lands Conversion Programme (SLCP), di�erence in di�erences, switching regression. JEL classi …

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The Role of Soil Conservation on Mean Crop Yield and Variance of Yield: Evidence from the Ethiopian Highlands

Kassie, Menale; Pender, John; Yesuf, Mahmud; Köhln, Gunnar - 2008

analysis, and exogenous and endogenous switching regression methods. We found statistically significant and positive impact of …

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Estimating Returns to Soil and Water Conservation Investments: An Application to Crop Yield in Kenya

Nyangena, Wilfred; Köhlin, Gunnar - 2008

effects–switching regression estimation comparing three SWC technologies to plots without SWC indicated that SWC increased the …

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Self-selection and subjective well-being : copula models with an application to public and private sector work

Lüchinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2008

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011633498