probability and intensity in small and medium firms (SMEs). The underlying hypothesis is that human capital and networks favour … ease of learning and promote absorptive capacity and knowledge, which in turn fosters innovation in SMEs in traditional … province in Southern Italy. A probit model is used to investigate the determinants of innovation while the intensity is …

-called industrial districts) or specialising in the production of quality goods (the so called made in Italy). However, the growing … competitiveness. By developing a conceptual model we identify the sources of competitiveness of Italian SMEs. The model is tested … using a unique database which collects data, for the year 2004, over a sample of 2,600 SMEs. …

The current crisis raises the question whether loans to SMEs in emerging markets areinherently more risky. We use a … unique unbalanced panel of nearly 700 loans made toSMEs in Slovakia between 2000 and 2005. Several probit and panel probit … indebtedness significantly increases the probability of default.Finally, liability as proxied by the legal form of SMEs has …

Maize Series (CMS)” 8704. In relation thereto, a Probit model adapted to membership of a smallholders’ cooperative was used …

-Oaxaca decomposition analysis for wage differentials. The decomposition method is first developed for a single probit model and later …

this paper I find that the most important component of this incidental parameters bias for probit fixed effects estimators … probit, logit, and linear probability models with predetermined regressors. …

generates discrete choice outcomes. Pregibit nests logit, approximately nests probit, loglog, cloglog and gosset models, and … yields a linear probability model that is solidly founded on the discrete choice framework that underlies logit and probit. …

In this paper, we investigate the ability of a number of different ordered probit models to predict ratings based on …