Essays about: "tobit model"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 21 essays containing the words tobit model.

  1. 16. Macroeconomics and European club football - an economic viewpoint on the richest football assembly in the world

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Erik Kapellner; Jakob Kostolny; [2014]
    Keywords : Tobit model; UEFA coefficient; football; macroeconomic; growing industry; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Football is getting more and more connected to business as well as economics by each day. Almost annually, a transfer record or an all-time-high sponsorship deal is signed. READ MORE

  3. 17. The Effect of Permanent Employment on Research Productivity - A Study of Economists in Swedish Higher Education

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : David Öberg; Hannes Skugghall; [2014]
    Keywords : Tenure; Research Productivity; Tobit Model; Permanent Employment; Life-Cycle Productivity;

    Abstract : This paper investigates whether research productivity declines once researchers become permanently employed. Using a unique panel dataset, describing research productivity over the career life cycle for Swedish economists, we present results indicating that permanent employment does not have a negative impact on research productivity. READ MORE

  4. 18. Macroeconomic volatility as determinants of FDI : A source country perspective

    University essay from Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper

    Author : David Hjalmarsson; [2013]
    Keywords : FDI flows; source country; output volatility; inflation; gravity model; tobit model; random effects model.;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates why and how macroeconomic volatility in source countries interacts with their FDI outflows. The study focuses on FDI flowing out from OECD countries to less developed countries in the ASEAN region. READ MORE

  5. 19. Why rural households choose not to participate in the open and optional village development fund in the poverty stricken areas of China

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Economics

    Author : Xian Zheng; [2012]
    Keywords : participation; private lender; RCCs; village development fund;

    Abstract : This paper tries to answer why certain households choose not to participate in the village development fund in the poverty stricken areas of China and takes advantage of the data from evaluation survey of the implemented financial project in Henan and Sichuan Provinces of China in 2009. The Probit model, Tobit model and Multinomial Probit model are used to explore the determinant factors that influence the participation decision in the village development fund of the villagers, the amount participating households borrowed from the fund and the borrowing behaviors among the main lending sources respectively. READ MORE

  6. 20. Contingent Budget Preference Experiment

    University essay from Örebro universitet/Handelshögskolan vid Örebro universitet

    Author : Murad Farajov; [2011]
    Keywords : budget preferences; logit model; tobit model;

    Abstract : An economic literature concerns instruments to improve the preference elicitation methods for the reform-based governmental programs. We construct an instrument for the budget allocation method using a Cobb-Douglas functional form. READ MORE