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Nonparametric estimation of homothetic and homothetically separable functions

Lewbel, Arthur; Linton, Oliver - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

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The conflict trap in the Greek Civil War 1946-1949: an economic approach

Christodoulakis, Nicos - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

The paper provides a quantitative analysis of the armed confrontation that took place in Greece between the Communist Party and the Centre-Right Government during 1946-1949. Using monthly data for battle casualties a dynamic Lotka-Volterra framework is estimated, pointing to the existence of a...

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Identification and nonparametric estimation of a transformed additively separable model

Jacho-Chávez, David; Lewbel, Arthur; Linton, Oliver - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

Let r (x, z) be a function that, along with its derivatives, can be consistently estimated nonparametrically. This paper discusses identification and consistent estimation of the unknown functions H, M, G and F, where r (x, z) = H [M (x, z)] and M (x, z) = G(x) + F (z). An estimation algorithm...

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The Conflict Trap in the Greek Civil War 1946-1949: An economic approach

Christodoulakis, Nicos - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010754017

The impact of the diffusion of a financial innovation on company performance: an analysis of SWIFT adoption

Scott, Susan V.; Zachariadis, Markos - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

1,689 SWIFT adopters) between 1998 and2005. We find that adoption appears to have large effects on profitability, but it … between new technologies and firm organization. The profitability effectoperates by both raising sales and decreasing …

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Minimum wages and firm profitability

Draca, Mirko; Machin, Stephen; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

other aspects of firm behaviour. In this paper we consider the impact of minimum wages on firm profitability by exploiting … firm profitability was significantly reduced (and wages significantly raised) by the minimum wage introduction. This … residential care homes, and a second on firms across all sectors). Interestingly, we find no evidence that the profitability …

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A general framework for analysing endogenous trade divergences

Walsh, Patrick - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1991

determined by the maximum potential profitability of the home industry. It is argued that interpretations based on ?profit …

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The interrelationship between HR, strategy and profitability in service SMEs: empirical evidence from the UK tourism hospitality and leisure sector

Georgiadis, Andreas; Pitelis, Christos N. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

We investigate the strategies, HR attributes and their synergies that are associated with superior performance in service SMEs using data from the UK Tourism Hospitality and Leisure (THL) sector. A major advantage of our analysis is that our sample includes information also on very small firms...

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A nonparametric regression estimator that adapts to error distribution of unknown form

Linton, Oliver; Xiao, Zhijie - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001

We propose a new estimator for nonparametric regression based on local likelihood estimation using an estimated error score function obtained from the residuals of a preliminary nonparametric regression. We show that our estimator is asymptotically equivalent to the infeasible local maximum...

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On subset selection in non-parametric stochastic regression

Yao, Qiwei; Tong, Howell - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1994

consistent. Furthermore, two kinds of asymptotic efficiency of the selected model are proved. Both simulated and real data are …

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