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Evidence for the Effects of Mergers on Market Power and Efficiency
Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2016
-level productivity. We also examine whether M&As increase efficiency through reallocation of production to more efficient plants or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012980667
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New Measures of Port Efficiency Using International Trade Data
Blonigen, Bruce A.; Wilson, Wesley W. - 2021
the efficiency with which they process cargo have become an ever more important topic. Yet, there exist very little data … that allows one to compare port efficiency measures of any kind across ports and, especially, over time. This paper … provides a new statistical method of uncovering port efficiency measures using U.S. Census data on imports into U.S. ports …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224698
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Are education and entrepreneurial income endogenous and do family background variables make sense as instruments? : a Bayesian analysis
Block, Jörn; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003973363
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Family background variables as instruments for education in income regressions : a Bayesian analysis
Hoogerheide, Lennart; Block, Jörn; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008736923
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Are education and entrepreneurial income endogenous and do family background variables make sense as instruments? : a Bayesian analysis
Block, Jörn; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2010 - Current version: February 2010
Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however, suffers from endogeneity suspicion. For instance, ability and occupational choice are mentioned as driving both the level of (entrepreneurial) income and of education. Using instrumental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011380037
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Family background variables as instruments for education in income regressions : a Bayesian analysis
Hoogerheide, Lennart; Block, Jörn; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2010 - Current version: July 2010
The validity of family background variables instrumenting education in income regressions has been much criticized. In this paper, we use data of the 2004 German Socio-Economic Panel and Bayesian analysis in order to analyze to what degree violations of the strong validity assumption affect the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011381026
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To bridge, to warp or to wrap? A comparative study of Monte Carlo methods for efficient evaluation of marginal likelihoods
Ardia, David; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Dijk, Herman K. van - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003813789
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Bayesian forecasting of value at risk and expected shortfall using adaptive importance sampling
Hoogerheide, Lennart; Dijk, Herman K. van - 2008
An efficient and accurate approach is proposed for forecasting Value at Risk [VaR] and Expected Shortfall [ES] measures in a Bayesian framework. This consists of a new adaptive importance sampling method for Quantile Estimation via Rapid Mixture of t approximations [QERMit]. As a first step the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011377096
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To bridge, to warp or to wrap? : a comparative study of Monte Carlo methods for efficient evaluation of marginal likelihoods
Ardia, David; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Dijk, Herman K. van - 2009
efficiency where the numerical standard error may be highly unreliable. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011377602
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A class of adaptive importance sampling weighted EM algorithms for efficient and robust posterior and predictive simulation
Hoogerheide, Lennart; Opschoor, Anne; Dijk, Herman K. van - In: Journal of econometrics 171 (2012) 2, pp. 101-120
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009691174