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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"two stage least squares"”.
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Factors Affecting the Thai Natural Rubber Market Equilibrium: Demand and Supply Response Analysis Using Two-Stage Least Squares Approach
… The instrumental variables estimation by two-stage least squares was used to solve and analyze the demand and supply of rubber. Results were statistically significant at 0.01 level, which showed that the U.S. GDP per capita, the estimated price, rainfall and rice price have a significant …
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Determination of demand and supply in Virginia's primary forest products markets: an econometric study
… of 15 simultaneous equations and identities. The two stage least squares regression technique was used to determine structural coefficients of the demand, supply, and consumption equations associated with each market, and the resultant system was used to estimate equilibrium consumption of each …
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A study of estimators in linear models
… linear models bear a linear relationship with least squares estimators. Finally, we have worked out the finite sample properties of two-stage least-squares using the Bootstrap Methodology.
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A shirking model of NBA players.
… 5-year panel of 121 NBA players this paper uses two stage least squares regression to test the possibility of player shirking by comparing performance in the final year of their contract versus other years. The analysis does not find evidence of shirking, although it does find evidence that …
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Determinants of mobile money subscriptions induced by conventional banks in Sub-Saharan Africa.
… is termed disruptive when undertaken by mobile network operators that eventually become quasi- or virtual banks, and exceedingly profitable when undertaken by commercial banks. What is unclear is how long these disruptions last before conventional banks latch on and hence the questions being put …
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EVALUATING THE EFFECTS OF WILDERNESS ON POPULATION AND EMPLOYMENT GROWTH IN THE ELEVEN WESTERN STATES
… simultaneity in population and employment, so a two-stage least squares regression is used. The empirical evidence suggests that population is attracted to land with a conservation mandate, and that this population increases employment. There is also additional evidence that employment …
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EVALUATING THE EFFECTS OF WILDERNESS ON POPULATION AND EMPLOYMENT GROWTH IN THE ELEVEN WESTERN STATES
… simultaneity in population and employment, so a two-stage least squares regression is used. The empirical evidence suggests that population is attracted to land with a conservation mandate, and that this population increases employment. There is also additional evidence that employment …
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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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Assessment of an outsourced agricultural extension service in the Mutasa district, Manicaland province, Zimbabwe
… of several outcome variables was estimated using two-stage least squares regression with instrumental variables to account for selection bias. The results show that the outsourced extension service contributed significantly to household crop income, net crop income and expenditure on farm inputs …
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Foreign direct investment: causes and consequences. The determinants of inward and outward FDI and their relationship with economic growth
… outflows. Keywords: FDI inflows, FDI outflows, two stage least squares simultaneous equations, economic growth, labour market flexibility.
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Essays on the economic effects of human capital investments
… for girls but had no effect on boys. Finally, two-stage least squares estimates obtained using the exogenous variation in school quality provided by the program suggest a higher returns to school quality than their ordinary least squares counterparts. The second chapter, co-authored with Hoyt …
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The economics of crime prevention policy : with particular reference to various crime categories in South Africa
… comprising the criminal justice system. Two stage least squares estimation procedures are adopted to estimate the total, property and violent crime rate equations for ninety magisterial districts in 1994, the probability of prosecution being an endogenous variable. As modelling reveals …
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Financial Development Channels and Remittances in the SADC
… from 2004 to 2014. The aim of this study was two-fold. Firstly, it analysed the short-run dynamics of interaction between various aspects of financial development and remittances on the economic growth rate (real gross domestic product). Secondly, it analysed the long-run dynamics. In this …
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Analyst Coverage and Tax Reporting Aggressiveness
… extensively in the accounting literature. Two conflicting representations of the influence of analysts have emerged. Analysts are either viewed as external monitors of corporate behavior, thereby reducing agency costs; or they are viewed as exerting additional pressure on management to meet …
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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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Regulatory requirements and board composition
… and board composition. Specifically it has two objectives: first, to provide evidence of the impact of the Principles of Good Corporate Governance and Best Practice (PGCG&BP) introduction in 2003 by the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) on board composition. Second, to examine the association …
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