standard and international trade. The estimation results allow us to formulate some interesting policy conclusions. …

. Pearce and Karlyn Mitchell.) This dissertation analyzes lenders' two important decisions (loan approval decision and loan … rate decision) in their loan evaluation procedures using the SSBF (Survey of Small Business Finances) data sets. First, I …

2SPS and 2SRI for logistic binary outcomes have not been thoroughly studied. We study the bias and variance properties … trial. We first present closed form expressions of asymptotic bias for the causal odds ratio from both 2SPS and 2SRI … approaches. Our closed form bias results show that the 2SPS logistic regression generates asymptotically biased estimates of this …

failure), thereby implying that an incorrect decision was better than a correct one, and that the more protective action … with consequentialist decision models. Consistent with this explanation, the prevalence of implied dominance decreased … substantially when the emphasis on decisions was reduced. These results demonstrate that initial preferences for decision …

failure), thereby implying that an incorrect decision was better than a correct one, and that the more protective action … with consequentialist decision models. Consistent with this explanation, the prevalence of implied dominance decreased … substantially when the emphasis on decisions was reduced. These results demonstrate that initial preferences for decision …

does not changeover time. Estimation on the basis of the standard model also raises difficultiesin specification, if …

attribute enables the estimation of monetary values forchanges in the non-market attributes presented. The ways in which the …

bias preventive approach developed by Firth (1993) to handlethe bias of an estimator of the log-odds ratio parameter in … conditional logistic regression bysolving a modified score equation. The resultant estimator not only reduces bias but alsocan …