The driving force behind the well-documented medium term momentum effect in stock returns is subject of much debate. Empirical papers that aim to find the determinants of this return continuation, seem to be almost exclusively restricted to US stock markets. Consequently, regional effects have...

Rede, in verkorte vorm uitgesproken bij de aanvaarding van het ambt van hoogleraar Ondernemingsfinanciering aan de Faculteit der Bedrijfskunde en de Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen van de Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam op vrijdag 21 juni 2002

This paper presents some two-step estimators for a wide range of parametric panel data models with censored endogenous variables and sample selection bias. Our approach is to derive estimates of the unobserved heterogeneity responsible for the endogeneity/selection bias to include as additional...