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Distributions you can count on …but what's the point?

McCabe, Brendan Peter Martin; Skeels, Christopher L. - In: Econometrics 8 (2020) 1, pp. 1-36

The Poisson regression model remains an important tool in the econometric analysis of count data. In a pioneering contribution to the econometric analysis of such models, Lung-Fei Lee presented a specification test for a Poisson model against a broad class of discrete distributions sometimes...

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Local Communities and the Mining Industry: Economic Potential and Social and Environmental Responsibilities

Brunet, Nicolas D. (contributor); … - 2023

development, but in others, disputes have erupted over land use, property rights, environmental damage, and revenue sharing …

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Nowcasting from space: Impact of tropical cyclones on Fiji's agriculture

Noy, Ilan; Blanc, Elodie; Pundit, Madhavi; Uher, Tomas - 2023

nowcasting, and for post-disaster damage assessment. We focus on Fiji and on its agriculture sector, and on tropical cyclones … be used for both nowcasting and post-disaster damage assessments. …

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Migration and pollution

Jha, Raghbendra; Whalley, John - 2003

endogenously determined. Interpreting unemployment as damage, urban pollution (damage denoted in units of labour) can also support … the same equilibrium with the value of damage equal to the value of resources otherwise lost through unemployment. However …, if the damage function implies an uninternalized externality (due to urban congestion, for instance), an internalization …

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The Core of Pure Economic Loss

Dari-Mattiacci, Guiseppe; Schäfer, Hans-Bernd - 2006

Should loss of earnings be compensated? The established law and economics wisdom considers pure economic loss as a transfer of wealth from the victim to a third party, whose earnings increase as a consequence of the accident. Such transfers do not amount to a social loss and, hence, should not...

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The inefficiency of private adaptation to pollution in the presence of endogeneous market structure

Eisenack, Klaus - 2010

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Fighting against drought in Dobrogea by protective forest belts

Lup, Aurel; Miron, Liliana - 2014

Dobrogea province is composed by Constanta and Tulcea counties, situated in the South-eastern part of Romania, and it is known as one of the driest parts of Romania. The yearly amount of precipitations is no more than 400-450 mm. The yearly average temperature is around 10.5oC; the soils are of...

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Life-cycle risk-taking with personal disaster risk

Bagliano, Fabio C.; Fugazza, Carolina; Nicodano, Giovanna - 2021

This paper examines households' self-insurance in financial markets when a rare personal disaster, such as disability or long-term unemployment, may occur during working years. Personal disaster risk alters lifetime ex-ante investment choices, even if most workers will not experience a disaster....

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Betit: A Family That Nests Probit and Logit

Vijverberg, Wim P. M. - 2000

This paper proposes a dichotomous choice model that is based on a transformed beta (or "z") distribution. This model, called betit, nests both logit and probit and allows for various skewed and peaked disturbance densities. Because the shape of this density affects the estimated relation between...

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The effect of income on democracy revisited: A flexible distributional approach

Idzalika, Rajius; Kneib, Thomas; Martinez-Zarzoso, … - 2015

We reexamine the effect of economic development on the level of democracy based on the data sets of Acemoglu et al. (2008) with a novel regression specification utilizing a zero-one-inflated beta distribution for the response variable democracy. The zero-one-inflated beta distribution is more...

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