This study compares the SPSS ordinary least squares (OLS) regression and ridge regression procedures in dealing with multicollinearity data. The LS regression method is one of the most frequently applied statistical procedures in application. It is well documented that the LS method is extremely...

We estimate the long rate and its volatility within the Svensson framework. The procedure that best extrapolates the longest observable rate and its volatility is a 2-dimensional grid search conditioned on the ridge regression suggested by Annaert et al. (2013).

We propose to model endogeneity bias using prior distributions of moment conditions. The estimator can be obtained both as a method-of-moments estimator and in a Ridge penalized regression framework. We show the estimator's relation to a Bayesian estimator.

The relationship between product market performance of a firm and its capital structure has drawn considerable amount of attention recently amongst corporate finance researchers. The same was established to be non-monotonic in the context of a developed market. The non-monotonicity in the...