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An empirical investigation of country level efficiency and national systems of entrepreneurship using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and the TOBIT model

open access: yesJournal of Global Entrepreneurship Research, 2018
The goal of this paper is to investigate effects of national systems of entrepreneurship on the country level efficiency, on addition we find what macro factors affect efficiency as well.
Nishat Tasnim, Munshi Naser Ibne Afzal
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Is Technological Heterogeneity the Key to Sustainable Coffee Production Efficiency?: A Latent Class Frontier Analysis in the Traditional Coffee Region of Colombia

open access: yesJournal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Coffee producers deal with uncertainty due to high volatility in coffee prices. To navigate these challenges, producers must balance the tradeoff between higher yield and better quality utilising heterogeneous technologies, such as intensive production methods and environmental management practices.
Orlando Rodríguez   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Off-farm income diversification among rural farm households in Nigeria

open access: yesAgricultura Tropica et Subtropica, 2019
This paper aims to analyze the extent of off-farm income diversification of farm households in rural areas of Nigeria by age, gender, educational qualification, farm size, household size and across the different regions in the country.
Adeoye Ifeoluwa Damilola   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Consumer Behaviour in Lotto Markets: The Double Hurdle Approach and Zeros in Gambling Survey Data [PDF]

open access: yes
Governments world-wide increasingly rely on gambling revenues, increasing the importance of understanding who gambles and why. Previous literature used Tobit and Heckman models to statistically analyze participation in gambling.
Humphreys, Brad   +2 more
core  

New evidence on taxes and portfolio choice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Identifying the effect of differential taxation on portfolio allocation requires exogenous variation in marginal tax rates. Marginal tax rates vary with income, but income surely affects portfolio choice directly. In systems of individual taxation – like
Alan, S   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Evaluation of China's water-resource utilization efficiency based on a DEA-Tobit two-stage model

open access: yes, 2020
In this paper, a Data Envelopment Analysis-Tobit (DEA-Tobit) two-stage model was used to evaluate the efficiency of water-resource utilization, and the regional differences and influencing factors on water-resource utilization were analyzed.
Y. Yang
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Does analyst participation in earnings conference calls curb real activities earnings management?

open access: yesContemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Sell‐side equity analysts serve as external monitors, yet evidence on how they fulfill this monitoring role remains limited. We examine whether analysts utilize earnings conference calls to monitor firms suspected of real earnings management and assess the implications of such monitoring.
Yuan Ji, Oded Rozenbaum
wiley   +1 more source

Mothers’ Acceptance and Willingness to Pay an Out-of-Pocket Payment for Maternal and Child Nutritional Services in Northwest Ethiopia

open access: yesClinicoEconomics and Outcomes Research, 2021
Getasew Amare, Mezgebu Yitayal, Amare Minyihun, Ayal Debie Department of Health Systems and Policy, Institute of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, EthiopiaCorrespondence: Getasew AmareDepartment of ...
Amare G, Yitayal M, Minyihun A, Debie A
doaj  

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