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Multivariate Dynamic Probit Models: An Application to Financial Crises Mutation [PDF]

, 2013
Forthcoming
Candelon, Bertrand, Dumitrescu, Elena Ivona, Hurlin, Christophe, Palm, Franz   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Lawyer CEOs and Strategic Disclosure of Litigation Loss Contingencies

Abacus, EarlyView.
Using hand‐collected data, we find that lawyer CEOs, defined as CEOs with a legal education background, tend to make first disclosures about pending litigation cases on a timelier basis for litigation cases that end up with material losses than do non‐lawyer CEOs.
Feng Chen, Yu Hou, Gordon Richardson, Barbara Su   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sensitivity analysis of the variable demand probit stochastic user equilibrium with multiple user classes [PDF]

, 2007
This paper presents a formulation of the multiple user class, variable demand, probit stochastic user equilibrium model. Sufficient conditions are stated for differentiability of the equilibrium flows of this model.
Agachai Sumalee, Bell, Cantarella, Chen, Clark, Daganzo, Daganzo, Daganzo, David P. Watling, Davis, Du, Fisk, Gartner, Genz, Gliebe, Han, Josefsson, Leurent, Magnanti, Maher, Mendell, Nielsen, Patriksson, Patriksson, Powell, Prashker, Richard D. Connors, Robinson, Rosa, Sheffi, Sheffi, Suwansirikul, Tobin, Vovsha, Wilde, Yai, Yang, Yang, Yang, Ying   +39 more
core   +1 more source

When the Former CEO Acts as Board Chair: Does This Matter to Debt Policy and Risk of Default?

Abacus, EarlyView.
This paper scrutinizes the interconnections between debt capital raising, firm risk of default, and the presence of a former CEO who now serves as a board chairperson, referred to as the Chair‐Former‐CEO (CFC). Employing a sample of the largest non‐financial firms within the US S&P 100 from 2002 to 2018, our results reveal that, when compared to their ...
Vu Quang Trinh, Aly Salama, Basil Al‐Najjar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The complementarity and substitutability of sustainable agricultural practices among maize farm households under AFRINT regions in Ghana: Do the socioeconomic determinants confirm these?

Cogent Food & Agriculture, 2021
Sustainable Agricultural Practices (SAPs) have been promoted over the years as a means of ensuring sustainable development in the agricultural sector. However, adoption has generally been low across countries.
Emmanuel Marfo, Gideon Danso-Abbeam, Samuel A. Donkoh, Makafui Adzo Dikro, Dennis Sedem Ehiakpor, Daniel Ofori   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Empirical and Simulated Adjustments of Composite Likelihood Ratio Statistics [PDF]

, 2013
Composite likelihood inference has gained much popularity thanks to its computational manageability and its theoretical properties. Unfortunately, performing composite likelihood ratio tests is inconvenient because of their awkward asymptotic ...
Cattelan, Manuela, Sartori, Nicola
core   +4 more sources

Investor‐ versus Multi‐stakeholder Orientation: The Influence of CSR Framework Adoption on Information Asymmetry

Abacus, EarlyView.
This study examines how firms’ adoption of corporate social responsibility frameworks (CSRFs) that follow different user orientation approaches affects information asymmetry in capital markets. We draw on novel hand‐collected adoption data from seven established CSRFs for a sample of STOXX Europe 600 firms from 2017–2020. Our findings reveal that CSRFs
Andreas Altendorfer, Brigitte Eierle, Stephan Küster   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Smallholder Farmers’ perceptions of climate change and adaptation strategies in Southern Ethiopia: Mixed method approach

Climate Services
The study objective is to assess farmers’ perception and adaptation to climate change in the Karat Zuria district, Southern Ethiopia. Multivariate probit models and descriptive statistics were used to evaluate cross-sectional data collected from 339 ...
Negussie Zeray
doaj   +1 more source

On the Use of Cauchy Prior Distributions for Bayesian Logistic Regression [PDF]

, 2017
In logistic regression, separation occurs when a linear combination of the predictors can perfectly classify part or all of the observations in the sample, and as a result, finite maximum likelihood estimates of the regression coefficients do not exist ...
Ghosh, Joyee, Li, Yingbo, Mitra, Robin
core   +3 more sources

The Lifecycle of Typical IPOs: The Characteristics of Surviving Firms

Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the dynamics of firm evolution by analysing the timing and sequencing of a firm's innovation, investment, financing and payout decisions following an IPO. We apply real options theory to analyse our sample that includes all IPOs listed on the NYSE, NYSE MKT and NASDAQ since 1976, categorised into surviving, voluntarily ...
Jennifer Gippel, Martina Linnenluecke, Tom Smith, Yan Xu, Yushu Zhu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source