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Impeded Industrial Restructuring: The Growth Penalty

Audretsch, David B.; Carree, M.A.; van Stel, A.J.; … - 2000

This paper documents that a process of industrial restructuring has been transforming the developed economies, where large corporations are accounting for less economic activity and small firms are accounting for a greater share of economic activity. Not all countries, however, are experiencing...

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Firm Size Distribution and Performance of Maize and Fertilizer Traders After Market Liberalisation: Evidence from Kenya

Mose, Lawrence Obae; Burger, Kees - 2006

Improvement in the performance of agricultural markets was the ultimate goal of market liberalisation. In this paper, firm (trader) size distribution as a factor influencing market performance is analyzed using maize and fertilizer traders from Kenya. Firm size distribution was assessed by...

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Firm Size Distribution and EPL in Italy

Schivardi, Fabiano; Torrini, Roberto - 2003

We study the role of employment protection legislation (EPL) in explaining the relative small average size of Italian firms. We construct a simple model that shows that the smooth relation between size and growth probability is disturbed in proximity of the thresholds at which EPL applies...

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Employment generation by small firms in Spain

López García, Paloma; Puente Díaz, Sergio; Gómez … - 2009

Despite the relevance in terms of policy, we still know little in Spain about where and by whom jobs are created, and how that is affecting the size distribution of firms. The main innovation of this paper is to use a rich database that overcomes the problems encountered by other firm-level...

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Causal Inference with Two-Stage Logistic Regression - Accuracy, Precision, and Application

Cai, Bing - 2010

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 …

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Better Safe than Sorry: Precautionary Reasoning and Implied Dominance in Risky Decisions

DeKay, Michael L.; Patiño-Echeverri, Dalia; Fischbeck, … - 2005

alternatives can seriously bias the evaluation of consequences in risky high-stakes decisions. …

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Better Safe than Sorry: Precautionary Reasoning and Implied Dominance in Risky Decisions

DeKay, Michael L.; Patino-Echeverri, Dalia; Fischbeck, … - 2008

alternatives can seriously bias the evaluation of consequences in risky high-stakes decisions. …

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Open-Access Fishery Models: Relaxing a Constraint and Removing an Econometric Obstacle

Gomersall, C. Nicholas - 1992

Over the past 30 years, a widely accepted model of "open-access" fisheries has been developed, yet empirical tests of the standard model have been relatively few. One difficulty is that fish stocks, the levels of which affect the rate of catch, are not directly observable. Simplifying...

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The Impacts of Attribute Level Framing and Changing Cost Levels on Choice Experiments Value Estimates

Kragt, Marit Ellen; Bennett, Jeffrey W. - 2010

Choice Experiments (CE) are increasingly used to estimate the values of environmental goods andservices. CE questionnaires represent the environmental good under valuation by varying levels ofnon-market attributes. Inclusion of a cost attribute enables the estimation of monetary values...

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Bias Reduction and Goodness-of-Fit Tests in Conditional Logistic Regression Models

Sinha, Samiran (contributor); Wang, Suojin (contributor) - 2010

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 …

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