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Analysis of Brand Recognition Associated with the Texas SuperstarTM and Earth-KindTM Programs in Texas

Bessler, David A. (contributor); … - 2009

models used were the logit and probit model on brand awareness and the tobit model on the conditional willingness …

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Privatization with Government Control: Evidence from the Russian Oil Sector

Berkowitz, Daniel; Semikolenova, Yadviga - 2006

Governments that privatize state industries often retain control over key distribution assets. While there are many examples of this form of partial privatization, to our knowledge there are no substantial quantitative studies of how governments use their control under these circumstances. In...

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Bootstrapping a conditional moments test for normality after tobit estimation

Drukker, David M. - 2002

evidence that the standard conditional moment test for normality after tobit estimation has essentially no size distortion and …

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Policy Reform and Off-farm Labor Supply by Operators in the Delta Region: A

Mishra, Ashok K.; Paudel, Krishna P. - 2008

Off-farm employment has been an integral part of the emerging structure of production agriculture in the South. Government farm program payments, farm structure, and strong non-farm economy have important impact on labor allocation, farm and non-farm labor, decision of farm operators. The...

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Modeling Censored Data Using Mixture Regression Models with an Application to Cattle Production Yields

Belasco, Eric J.; Ghosh, Sujit K. - 2008

This research develops a mixture regression model that is shown to have advantages over theclassical Tobit model in … flexibility in distributional assumptions while nesting the classic Tobit model. A simulated data set is utilized to assess the … potential loss in efficiency from model misspecification, assuming the Tobit and a zero-inflated log-normal distribution, which …

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FARM CHARACTERISTICS THAT INFLUENCE NET FARM INCOME VARIABILITY AND LOSSES

Dunn, Jerry W.; Williams, Jeffery R. - 2000

Farm-level, cross-section and panel data were used with econometric methods to examine relationships between variability in net farm income and explanatory variables including government payments, gross crop income, gross livestock income, costs, efficiency measures, and other socioeconomic...

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Incentive Payment Programs for Environmental Protection: A Framework for Eliciting and Estimating Landowners' Willingness to Participate

Layton, David F.; Siikamaki, Juha - 2005

This paper considers the role of incentive payment programs in eliciting, estimating, and predicting landowners' conservation enrollments. Using both program participation and the amount of land enrolled, we develop two econometric approaches for predicting enrollments. The first is a...

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Price Promotions and Brand Loyalty: Empirical Evidence for the German Breakfast Cereals Market

Empen, Janine; Loy, Jens-Peter; Weiss, Christoph R. - 2011

Price promotions are important marketing activities for (food) retailers; brand loyalty is a major requisite to foster brands' assets. Several theoretical papers have analyzed the relationship between price promotions and brand loyalty resulting in mixed or perhaps contradictory outcomes; only a...

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TOBIT ESTIMATION OF THE INTENSITY OF EXPORT SUCCESS OF HORTICULTURAL ENTERPRISES IN GHANA

Agyei-Sasu, Felix; Egyir, Irene Susana - 2010

-structured questionnaire. The tobit model was used to estimate theintensity of export success by horticultural enterprises in Ghana …

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Adaptive weighting for flexible estimation in nonparametric regression models.

Nosedal-Sanchez, Alvaro - 2011

We propose a new method to find spatially adaptive smoothing splines. This new method breaks down the interval [0, 1] into p disjoint sub-intervals. Then we define p functional components in [0, 1], which have two importantfeatures. First, the purpose of each of these p components is to estimate...

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