In this paper we have demonstrated the implications of incorrectly normalising the parameters of a reduced rank regression model to achieve global identification, and presented a method for estimating this model without using the ordering restrictions imposed in previous Bayesian and frequentist...

This research tests a bargaining model of household fertility decision-making. Using unstructured interviews conducted in Brazil in 1990 and 1992-93, and an econometric analysis of the 1984 PNAD .5 percent sample of Brazilian households, we examine the impact of husband-wife bargaining fertility.

The weekend effect is an empirical enomaly that has attracted substantial attention. Following the work of Connoly (1989) it is necessary to revisit previous empirical work. In this paper we examine the weekend effect in Malaysia over the period 1986-1993.

This paper considers residuals for time series regression. Despite much literature on visual diagnostics for uncorrelated data, there is little on the autocorrelated case. In order to examine various aspects of the fitted time series regression model, three residuals are considered. The fitted...

Most hypotheses in binary response models are composite. The null hypothesis is usually that one or more slope coefficients are zero. Typically, the sequence of alternatives of interest is one in which the slope coefficients are increasing in absolute value. In this papar, we prove that the...

This paper considers the construction of model selection procedures based on choosing the model with the largest maximised log-likelihood mimus a penalty, when key parameters are restricted to be in a closed interval. The approach adopted is based on King et al.'s (1995) representative models...

Linear programming techniques have been widely used to compute Malmquist indices of productivity change as ratios of fitted distances from a convex hull frontier. These indices are then decomposed into technical and efficiency change. However, since this approach is non-stochastic, inference is...

A variety of statistical methods and econometric techniques can be used attempting to disentangle the non-cyclical trend component of a time series and its purely cyclical part. This paper serves the purpose to demonstrate the potential contribution from the use of unobserved components...

We establish the relationships between certain Bayesian and classical approaches to instrumental variable regression. We determine the form of priors that lead to posteriors for structural parameters that have similar properties as classical 2SLS and LIML and in doing so provide some new insight...