PREDICTING BOVINE SOMATOTROPIN USE BY CALIFORNIA DAIRY FARMERS [PDF]
An ex ante adoption model of bovine somatotropin (BST) is estimated with survey data of California milk producers. Theoretical justification is developed for incorporation of socioeconomic explanatory variables in a technology-adoption model.
Zepeda, Lydia
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Cross-border bank contagion in Europe [PDF]
This paper analyses cross-border contagion in a sample of European banks from January 1994 to January 2003. We use a multinomial logit model to estimate the number of banks in a given country that experience a large shock on the same day (“coexceedances”)
Gropp, Reint +2 more
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Why do firms opt for Alternative-Format Financial Statements ? Some Evidence from France [PDF]
Historically, the format of financial statements has varied from one country to another. Recently, due to the attractiveness of their capital markets, the strength of their accounting professions and the influence of their institutional investors, Anglo ...
DING, Yuan +2 more
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WHO CHOOSES TO OWN A MANUFACTURED HOME ? [PDF]
Little research has been conducted on the choice of dwelling by U.S. homeowners. Few studies have included manufactured housing into the dwelling choices available to homeowners.
Maria I. Marshall
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The Price Consideration Model of Brand Choice [PDF]
The workhorse brand choice models in marketing are the multinomial logit (MNL) and nested multinomial logit (NMNL). These models place strong restrictions on how brand share and purchase incidence price elasticities are related. In this paper, we propose
Ching, Andrew +2 more
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Towards A New Early Warning System of Financial Crises [PDF]
This paper develops a new Early Warning System (EWS) model for predicting financial crises, based on a multinomial logit model. It is shown that EWS approaches based on binomial discrete-dependent-variable models can be subject to what we call a post ...
Fratzscher, Marcel, Matthieu Bussiere
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Testing for Hypothetical Bias in Contingent Valuation Using a Latent Choice Multinomial Logit Model [PDF]
The most persistently troubling empirical result in the contingent valuation method literature is the tendency for hypothetical willingness to pay to overestimate real willingness to pay.
John C. Whitehead +2 more
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EXPLAINING THE CLIMATE-DEPENDENT DISTRIBUTION OF CROPS IN SPACE –THE EXAMPLE OF CORN AND CORN-COB-MIX IN BADEN-WÜRTTEMBERG [PDF]
This article analyses the current climate-dependent spatial distribution of corn and corn-cob-mix in Baden-Württemberg using 2007 data at the county and community level.
Aurbacher, Joachim +3 more
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Bayesian estimation of non-stationary Markov models combining micro and macro data [PDF]
In this poster a Bayesian estimation framework for a non-stationary Markov model is developed for situations where sample data with observed transition between classes (micro data) and aggregate population shares (macro data) are available.
Heckelei, Thomas, Storm, Hugo
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Cooperative Mergers and Acquisitions: The Role of Capital Constraints [PDF]
Several explanations for merger activity exist for publicly traded firms, but none consider the unique aspects of cooperatives. This study develops a test for the hypothesis that cooperative consolidation occurs primarily in response to capital ...
Manfredo, Mark R., Richards, Timothy J.
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