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FHA Has Achieved Its Home Mortgage Capital Reserve Target, Technical Appendix

Kelly, Austin - EconWPA - 1996

Congress asked GAO to estimate the value of FHA's Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund, a capital reserve which backs most of FHA's single- family mortgages. This technical appendix presents estimates of the claim and non-claim termination propensities of single-family FHA mortgages. Competing risks...

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Models of Firm Dynamics and the Hazard Rate of Exits: Reconciling Theory and Evidence using Hazard Regression Models

Bhattacharjee, Arnab - EconWPA - 2005

-duration. Instability in exchange rates affects survival of very young firms strongly, and the effect decreases to insignificant levels for …

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Estimating the Effect of Training on Unemployment Duration in West Germany - A Discrete Hazard-Rate Model with Instrumental Variables

Hujer, R.; Maurer, K.-O.; Wellner, M. - EconWPA - 1997

We estimate a semiparametric single-risk discrete-time duration model to assess the effect of vocational training on the duration of unemployment spells. The data basis used in this study is the German Socio-Economic- Panel (GSOEP) for West Germany for the period from 1986 to 1994. To take into...

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Managed Care and the Adoption of Hospital Technology: The Case of Cardiac Catheterization

Bokhari, Farasat A.S. - EconWPA - 2001

The diffusion of health care technology is influenced by both the total market share of managed care organizations as well as the level of competition among them. This paper differentiates between HMO penetration and competition and examines their relationship to the adoption of cardiac...

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Birth Spacing and Child Survival: Comparative Evidence from India and Pakistan

Maitra, Pushkar; Pal, Sarmistha - EconWPA - 2004

This paper examines the two-way relationship between birth interval and child survival and compares the behaviour of … households in the Indian and Pakistani provinces of Punjab. Birth interval and child survival are modelled here as correlated … between birth interval and child survival in both samples. There are also significant differences between Indian and Pakistani …

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Using Indirect Inference to Solve the Initial Conditions Problem

An, Mark Yuying; Liu, Ming - EconWPA - 1996

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Instrumental Variable Estimation for Duration Data: A Reappraisal of the Illinois Reemployment Bonus Experiment

Bijwaard, G.E. - EconWPA - 2002

We propose an Instrumental Variable method for Generalised Accelerated Failure Time (GAFT) models that adjust for possible endogeneity of the intervention of interest, without suffering the problems of the intention-to-treat method. We develop an estimatiom procedure that collapses to the linear...

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Explaining Non-Negative Duration Dependence Among the Unemployed

Serneels, Pieter - EconWPA - 2004

We investigate why we observe non-negative duration dependence among young unemployed men in urban Ethiopia. Assuming that genuine duration dependence is negative, there are five explanations for a non-decreasing hazard: the presence of unemployment benefits, the existence of Active Labour...

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Analyzing the Time between Trades with a Gamma Compounded Hazard Model. An Application to LIFFE Bund Future Transactions

Hautsch, Nikolaus - EconWPA - 1999

This paper investigates the time between transactions on financial markets. It is assumed that the interval between transactions is a random variable and the relationship between the probability to observe a transaction at each instant of time and the type of the previous trade is investigated....

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Empirical Evidence on the Duration of Bank Relationships

Ongena, Steven; Smith, David C. - EconWPA - 1997

We present evidence on the duration of firm-bank relationships using a unique panel data set of connections between Oslo Stock Exchange-listed firms and their banks for the period 1979-1994. We focus on the determinants of the duration of a relationship and the causes for ending an existing bank...

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