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Full Dollarisation and Economic Performance Revisited

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the economic performance of fully dollarised economies compared to those with alternative monetary regimes. Using an extensive dataset covering 192 countries from 1980 to 2021, we employ a variety of econometric techniques, including joint maximum likelihood and propensity score matching, to address endogeneity and ...
John Thornton, Chrysovalantis Vasilakis
wiley   +1 more source

Household willingness to pay for azithromycin treatment for trachoma control in the United Republic of Tanzania

Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2003
OBJECTIVE: Household willingness to pay for treatment provides important information for programme planning. We tested for relationships between socioeconomic status, risk of trachoma, perceptions of the effects of azithromycin, and the household ...
Frick Kevin D., Lynch Matthew, West Sheila, Munoz Beatriz, Mkocha Harran A.   +4 more
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Estimating Dynamic Probit Models with Higher-order Time- and Network-lag Structure and Correlated Random Effects

Many strategic choices in the social sciences involve sluggish adjustment with an ex-ante unknown lag structure as well as patterns of interdependency among the cross-sectional units, which call for a flexible parameterization based on multiple networks. This chapter proposes straightforward panel-probit estimation approaches based on control functions
Egger, Peter H., Kesina, Michaela
openaire   +2 more sources

Ordered Response Models [PDF]

We discuss regression models for ordered responses, such as ratings of bonds, schooling attainment, or measures of subjective well-being. Commonly used models in this context are the ordered logit and ordered probit regression models.
Stefan Boes, Rainer Winkelmann
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Subjective well-being and the family: Results from an ordered probit model with multiple random effects [PDF]

, 2018
The previous literature on the determinants of individual well-being has failed to fully account for the interdependencies in well-being at the family level. This paper develops an ordered probit model with multiple random effects that allows to identify
Winkelmann, Rainer
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Carbon Performance, Climate Governance, and Equity Risk

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the relationship between carbon performance, climate governance, and equity risk. Using a sample of companies listed in the S&P500 index for the period 2009–2023, our results show that better carbon performance reduces equity risk, indicating that proactive carbon management reduces uncertainty and is beneficial to firms ...
Malafronte Irma, Pereira John, Rakeeb Fathima Roshan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainability Incentives and Value Creation in Corporate Acquisitions

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using an extended international sample of domestic and cross‐border mergers and acquisitions (M&A), this paper provides the first comprehensive examination of the role of ESG‐linked executive compensation in the market for corporate control.
Athanasios Tsekeris
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of the impacts of risk factors on teenage and older driver injury severity using random-parameter ordered probit

, 2019
The study analyzed injury severity of teenage and older drivers using 2015–2016 crash data from New Mexico. The fitness of the random-parameter ordered probit models developed for each age group was tested using likelihood ratio, comparing them to a ...
Darban Khales, Sina, Dimitrijevic, Branislav, Kunt, Mehmet Metin   +2 more
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Drivers and Challenges of Micro‐Irrigation Adoption and Intensity in India: A Study of Four States

Irrigation and Drainage, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT India's food security relies substantially on groundwater, but inefficient irrigation is seriously depleting this resource. Micro‐irrigation (MI) improves irrigation application efficiency and productivity, yet adoption remains low. This study examines MI adoption across four major Indian states—Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and ...
Gurpreet Singh, Vasant P. Gandhi, Arnab K. Laha   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Subjective Well-Being and the Family: Results from an Ordered Probit Model with Multiple Random Effects [PDF]

The previous literature on the determinants of individual well-being has failed to fully account for the interdependencies in well-being at the family level. This paper develops an ordered probit model with multiple random effects that allows to identify
Rainer Winkelmann
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