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Resort Real Estate : Does Supply Prevent Appreciation?

Wheaton, William C. - 2009

This paper examines the behavior of ski resort property in a major New England market over the last 25 years. A constructed property price series reveals that nominal prices are quite volatile and only slightly higher today than in 1980. These fluctuations and trends are investigated with a time...

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Quality and Determinants of Primary Education in Rural India

Das, Subhasish - 2019

Even though India's achievement in the elementary level of education in terms of enrollment is praiseworthy, this paper tries to examine whether or not India's performance is equally impressive from the qualitative perspective. An overview of elementary education in rural India is presented in...

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Pretest Estimation in the Random Parameters Logit Model

Zeng, Tong - 2015

In this paper we use Monte Carlo sampling experiments to examine the properties of pretest estimators in the random parameters logit (RPL) model. The pretests are for the presence of random parameters. We study the Lagrange multiplier (LM), likelihood ratio (LR), and Wald tests, using...

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Estimation, Specification and Testing in Middle- and Zero-Inflated Ordered Probit Models

Brown, Sarah - 2018

Zero-inflated ordered probit (ZIOP) and middle-inflated ordered probit (MIOP) models are finding increasing favour in … the discrete choice literature. Both models consist of a mixture of binary and single ordered probit equations, the … to these models - which collapse to their ZIOP/MIOP counterparts under a set of simple parameter restrictions - with …

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Are Potential Effects of SFAS 158 Associated with Firms’ Decisions to Freeze Their Defined Benefit Pension Plans?

Beaudoin, Cathy - 2011

and culminating in the adoption of SFAS 158 in the U.S. Using logistic regression models, we compare 147 ldquo …;freeze firmsrdquo; with a matched sample of firms that did not announce a DB plan freeze. Our models control for other possible …

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Calidad del servicio y determinantes de la satisfacción en usuarios de los servicios hospitalarios de Cartagena de Indias, Colombia

Vergara Schmalbach, Juan Carlos; Quesada Ibargüen, … - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 26 (2018), pp. 203-219

Quality of Service and User Satisfaction in Health System form a topic with academic and managerial importance. Knowledge on variables that influence this indicator will help guide the strategies and/or actions aimed at improving service. In this sense, the goal of this article consists in...

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Financial expectations and household consumption : does middle inflation matter?

Brown, Sarah; Harris, Mark N.; Spencer, Christopher; … - 2020

this response pattern. Expectations indices based on competing discrete choice models are then exploited to explore the …

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Randomized Sign Test for Dependent Observations on Discrete Choice under Risk

Bracha, Anat; Gray, Jeremy; Ibragimov, Rustam; Nadler, Boaz - Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University - 2005

This paper proposes nonparametric statistical procedures for analyzing discrete choice models of affective decision … on game-theoretic models of affective decision making. This methodology is illustrated in the context of a hypothetical …

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Testing Exogeneity of Multinomial Regressors in Count Data Models : Does Two Stage Residual Inclusion Work?

Geraci, Andrea; Fabbri, Daniele; Monfardini, Chiara - 2014

We study a simple exogeneity test in count data models with possibly endogenous multinomial treatment. The test is …

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Diagnostic Tests of Cross Section Independence for Nonlinear Panel Data Models

Hsiao, Cheng; Pesaran, M. Hashem; Pick, Andreas - 2014

In this paper we discuss tests for residual cross section dependence in nonlinear panel data models. The tests are … based on average pair-wise residual correlation coefficients. In nonlinear models, the definition of the residual is …

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