Essays about: "probit regression"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 43 essays containing the words probit regression.

  1. 11. The likelihood and financial effect of merger and acquisitions on Nordic listed firms: the role of women on the board

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för redovisning och finansiering

    Author : Ellen Allgurin; Hanna Wikberg; [2022]
    Keywords : Gender Diversity; Corporate Governance; M A transaction; Critical Mass; Financial Performance;

    Abstract : This thesis seeks to explore whether female board members on Nordic listed firms have an impact on the likelihood of performing an M&A transaction. Additionally, it investigates women's impact on financial performance. READ MORE

  3. 12. Statistical Learning of Key Performance Indicators for Swedish Football

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för matematik och matematisk statistik

    Author : Jonathan Forsberg; Edward Yu; [2022]
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    Abstract : Football is the indisputable most popular sport globally, and the central question within this game is how to become the winning outcoming part. A possible approach to answer this question is to utilise data and its information for analysis and provide keyperformance indicators that distinguish the successful from the unsuccessful teams. READ MORE

  4. 13. Targeting the Poor Secondary Students for Stipend: Identifying the Gap between Policy and Implementation

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Chowdhury bdullah-Al-Baki; Farhana Akand; [2021-06-30]
    Keywords : Targeting; Conditional Cash Transfer; Poverty; Proxy Means Testing PMT ; Community-Based Targeting CBT ; Exclusion error; Inclusion error;

    Abstract : Well-designed and efficient poverty-based targeting methods are necessary for effectively identifying the poor households in poverty eradicating programs. This study investigates the ex-post implementation process and performance of two common targeting approaches - Proxy Means Test (PMT) and Community-Based Targeting (CBT)- to target the poor beneficiaries in a conditional cash transfer program in Bangladesh. READ MORE

  5. 14. Bankruptcy prediction models on Swedish companies.

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Företagsekonomi

    Author : Jocelyn Charraud; Adrian Garcia Saez; [2021]
    Keywords : Bankruptcy prediction models; Ohlson model; Altman model; Zmijewski model; Sweden; logistic regression; probit regression; AUC; Youden index; Liu index;

    Abstract : Bankruptcies have been a sensitive topic all around the world for over 50 years. From their research, the authors have found that only a few bankruptcy studies have been conducted in Sweden and even less on the topic of bankruptcy prediction models. READ MORE

  6. 15. Close to Home: The Effect of Proximity to Violent Protests on Hong Kong's 2019 Electoral Outcomes

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Matilda Fors; Andrea Schmidt; [2020]
    Keywords : democracy; election; Hong Kong 2019 pro-democracy protests; proximity; violent protests;

    Abstract : This paper aims to investigate the effect of violent pro-democracy protests on electoral support for pro-democracy candidates in the case of Hong Kong's 2019 District Council election. More specifically, we estimate the size of an effect resting on three theoretically and contextually informed microfoundations: violence in protests, geographical proximity of protests to voters' homes, and temporal proximity of protests to election day. READ MORE