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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Two-Stage Least Squares (2SLS)"”.
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Há diferenças na gestão da política econômica pós Plano Real?: uma análise por estimação do modelo IS-LM
… based on the macroeconomics model IS-LM, using two methods of econometric estimation, the Method of Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) and the Method of Two-Stage Least Squares (2SLS). To achieve the objective, the time period was divided in five shares, comprising all the time between the first …
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Outsourcing And The Pupil Transportation Industry In Minnesota: An Economic Evaluation
… the endogenous decision to outsource. The first stage results from fixed-effects two stage least squares (2SLS) regression show that the two instruments, population density and the number of school days increase the likelihood of outsourcing while wages have a negative effect. The second stage …
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Personal Savings as a Function of Permanent Income
… from it. Permanent income was estimated using a two-stage least squares (2SLS) method and aggregate personal savings is estimated using ordinary least squares (OLS). The empirical evidence reveals that savings estimates and marginal propensities to save are consistent with results obtained …
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Analysis of the United States Hop Market
… explain the supply and demand of hops using the two-stage least squares (2SLS) method of analysis. Using the 2SLS method, the demand model yielded that the US beer production variable is significant at the 10 percent level. For every 1 percent change in US beer production, there will be a 6.25 …
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Green gains: a case for South African-listed firms
… mitigate possible endogeneity, we utilized the two-stage least squares (2SLS) regression model, using lagged ESG scores (L2), ESG- related bonuses, and executive compensation as instruments. Our findings reveal that strong ESG performance positively influences firm profitability, but negatively …
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Analysing the effect of financial inclusion on income inequality in Namibia
… and credit accounts. The study employed a two-stage least squares (2SLS) regression to estimate the effect of financial inclusion on household well-being and a quantile regression to investigate to estimate the effect of financial inclusion on income inequality. The study elicits some …
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New Venture Creation and Infrastructure in Developed and Developing World Countries
… on sample of 42 sub-countries. Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) and Two Stage Least Squares (2SLS) regression techniques were applied, and index was shown to affect said transition only indirectly, through corruption perceptions. Index effect (disaggregate) was also evaluated on …
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Economics Meets Mortality
… panel microdata from 2004–2016 and employs a two-stage least squares (2SLS) regression framework with mass layoffs as an instrument to identify the causal effect of unemployment on mortality. Results indicate that unemployment leads to nine additional deaths per 100,000 people, with pronounced …
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Migrant remittances, Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7 and energy poverty in Sri Lanka
… income inequality as the mediating variable. Two-Stage-Least-Squares (2SLS) regression results showed that a 10% increase in remittances decreased energy poverty by 0.042 units, while IV mediation analysis indicated that income inequality significantly mediated this relationship. The final …
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Corporate governance mechanism and family influence impact on tax avoidance behaviours of UK family firms
… The empirical analysis employs System GMM and two-stage least squares (2SLS) estimators to address endogeneity concerns, with fixed-effects and random-effects models serving as robustness checks. The research progresses through three interconnected empirical studies examining: (1) comparative …
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The Effects of Board Gender Diversity on Bank Performance and Risk-taking: Evidence from the Banking Sector in sub-Saharan Africa
… statements and Hofstede Insights. Ordinary least squares (OLS) regressions were employed for baseline estimations, followed by two-stage least squares (2SLS) and system generalized method of moments (GMM) to address potential endogeneity, dynamic effects, and unobserved heterogeneity. The …
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Essays on nonparametric inference and instrument selection
My dissertation consists of two chapters on nonparametric inference and model selection in econometric models. Researchers in economics and social science need reliable models and statistical tools to quantify economic relationships and uncertainty associated with data. In practice, researchers …
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Fiscal Rules, Fiscal Space and Debt Sustainability for Macroeconomic Stability in Sub-Saharan Africa
… debt management and growth outcomes. Chapter two offers both theoretical and empirical literature and lays the foundation for analysis undertaken in the subsequent chapters. The theoretical literature includes the deficit bias, signalling theory, common pool hypothesis, Ricardian Equivalence, …
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Electricity Markets Price Risk, Pollution, and Policies
… using a pooled event study regression, a two-stage least squares (2SLS) specification, and a generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (GARCH) model. The econometric results all confirm that price volatility is significantly decreased by additional natural gas capacity, …
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Corporate Decision-Making: Three Essays in Applied Finance
… within the U.S. financial market. Drawing on two decades of comprehensive financial data from Compustat, encompassing the years 2000 to 2019 and involving 18,595 firm-year observations across 980 diverse companies, this study employs a robust methodological framework. Advanced statistical …