基于Tobit回归的融资决策影响因素分析

运用中国上市公司1990～2009年的有关数据,采用Tobit回归模型分析了中国A股上市公司融资决策的影响因素。结果表明融资决策(资产负债率)与实际所得税率正相关;公司规模与资产负债率正相关,而资产担保价值、获利能力和成长性与资产负债率负相关,这一结果与发达国家和其他新型国家的发现相一致。     

安徽省主要城市工业用电效率及影响因素分析--基于DEA及Tobit两阶段模型

随着节约型社会的构建,安徽省不断加大对能源使用效率的监督和管理力度,为了明确安徽省近年来工业用电效率及其影响因素,采用数据包络及托宾回归模型对2004-2011年安徽省17个主要城市工业用电效率进行评价和分析。研究结果表明：（1）自2004年以来,安徽省主要城市工业用电效率一直处在上升阶段,但是与最优水平仍存在一定差距,同时还发现工业增加值与用电效率之间并不存在显著关系;（2）工业经济发达城市唯有依靠技术效率来提升用电效率,工业经济欠发达城市则需通过规模经济来实现用电效率的改善。（3）对外开放水平、节电意识、科技水平以及政府支出对工业用电效率有正向影响。     

中国农村乡镇卫生院服务效率的实证分析——基于省际面板数据的DEA-Tobit估计

使用2002-2009年我国31个省份的面板数据,对不同地区乡镇卫生院服务效率进行比较和分析。采用投入导向的数据包络分析(BCC模型)方法计算各省份乡镇卫生院的技术效率和规模效率,并根据效率和投入情况将全国不同地区划分为六种类型,针对不同类型的地区提出提高效率的路径。使用Tobit回归对效率低下的影响因素进行回归分析。我国农村地区乡镇卫生院服务效率很大程度上受到新型农村医疗制度的实施效果,以及农村居民的文盲率和总抚养比的影响。     

The Tobit cointegrated vector autoregressive model: An application to the currency market

The Tobit cointegrated vector autoregressive model proposed in this study extends the existing methodology by allowing the censored variable to be nonstationary. The approach requires deriving the distribution of the cointegration rank test and simulating new critical values. The empirical application refers to the currency market. It has confirmed that the exchange rate is driven by four main forces: inflation, terms of trade, the perception of the country-specific risk, and the state of the currency market. Temporary disequilibria in the currency market arise not only from the “fundamental” factors, but also from the contagion effect.     

中国商业银行竞争力及影响因素分析:2002—2009年

本文选取中国14家上市商业银行作为研究对象,利用2002—2009年的数据,通过定义社会生产效率、服务效率、盈利效率和成长效率,研究中国银行业的整体效率、效率值动态变化和各银行的效率情况。结果表明,四大国有控股商业银行与一般股份制银行和城市商业银行相比,其社会生产效率、盈利效率过低,但如果将投入变量中的员工数目换为工资薪酬,国有控股商业银行的效率则有很大提升;股权结构会影响效率值,但国有股与效率值不一定负相关,而外资股和效率值正相关,只对于生产效率成立,对于服务效率和盈利效率刚好相反。     

Estimation of hedonic price functions via additive nonparametric regression

We model a hedonic price function for housing as an additive nonparametric regression. Estimation is done via a backfitting procedure in combination with a local polynomial estimator. It avoids the pitfalls of an unrestricted nonparametric estimator, such as slow convergence rates and the curse of dimensionality. Bandwidths are chosen using a novel plug in method that minimizes the asymptotic mean average squared error (AMASE) of the regression. We compare our results to alternative parametric models and find evidence of the superiority of our nonparametric model. From an empirical perspective our study is interesting in that the effects on housing prices of a series of environmental characteristics are modeled in the regression. We find these characteristics to be important in the determination of housing prices.First version received: October 2002/Final version received: October 2003We thank B. Baltagi and two anonymous referees for their comments. The authors retain responsibility for any remaining errors.     

A trivariate model of participation,fertility and wages: the Italian case

Italy has unusually low fertility by OECD standards, accompaniedby unusually low female participation in paid work. This paperaddresses the issue of the empirical relationship between fertility,female participation in the labour market and wages with theseItalian 'peculiarities' as a backcloth. A trivariate model ofparticipation, fertility and wages has been constructed andestimated using three pooled cross-sections of Italian microdata, allowing for the identification of cohort effects. Thismodel follows a 'purist' approach: the participation and fertilitydecisions, as well as the wage equation, are modelled as completelyjoint. The cohort effects turn out to be significant: the pointestimates do not appear to confirm actual trends, which arenegative for fertility and positive for participation. The femalewage is the most important variable influencing the propensityto have children and the propensity to participate in the labourmarket, casting doubt on suggestions that observed trends arethe products of shifts in women's 'tastes'.     

National and international policies for tropical rain forest conservation—A quantitative analysis for Cameroon

This paper provides a numerical general equilibrium assessment of policies to reduce tropical deforestation in Cameroon. Market failure—mainly in the form of national and international externalities—and policy failures—such as highly distorted product markets—are identified as major sources of overexploitation. The ecological effects of deforestation control are shown to depend crucially upon its impact on land use patterns whereas its efficiency effects hinge on the manner in which a specified set-aside target is achieved. If the international community wants to ensure a higher level of protection of these forests, and to do so within a market-based system, the provision of conditional financial resources is neceassary.     

A generalized panel data switching regression model

This paper considers a generalized panel data model of polychotomous and/or sequential switching which can also accommodate the dependence between unobserved effects and covariates in the model. We showcase our model using an empirical illustration in which we estimate scope economies for the publicly owned electric utilities in the US during the period from 2001 to 2003.     

A generalized double-hurdle model of Swedish gambling expenditures

This article estimates the relationship between demand for Swedish gambling, income and the other socioeconomic variables using empirical models of participation and gambling expenditure. It also indirectly attempts to account for the effect of a recent recession on gambling behaviour by examining gambling behaviour when the economy was growing versus the period immediately after a major recession. The aim of the article is to analyse the factors influencing gambling decisions. This is done using the double-hurdle method adjusted for the problems of heteroscedasticity and nonnormality using an approach that can handle extreme values and address skewness. The empirical results ruled out Tobit-type models and normally distributed double-hurdle models. The pattern on income elasticities across income classes implies that implicit Swedish gaming taxes are regressive. Income elasticities become smaller after the recession and the decision to participate changed with respect to the several of the demographic variables.     

A biannual recession-forecasting model

The model predicts out-of-sample whether an NBER-defined peak or trough will occur within the next half-year. It yields a 100% proportion of correct recursive forecasts from 1970 to 2015. All the necessary data are readily available in un-revised form.     

Pollution effects of free trade areas: Simulations from a general equilibrium model

Abstract

A two-factors, two-goods, three-countries general equilibrium model is developed to assess the effects of a Free Trade Area (FTA) on pollution emissions. It also makes it possible to compare the effects of a discriminating commercial policy with alternative–non discriminating–policies, such as full trade liberalization or non-discriminating protection. A theoretical model is first developed in order to take into account country-differences in factor endowment, environmental regulation, pollution abatement technology, marginal disutilities of pollution, as well as terms of trade effects. This model is subsequently calibrated and computed in accordance with empirical evidence. The main conclusion shows that the move from protection to FTA reduces world pollution emissions. A second result indicates that, in case of full trade liberalization, world pollution is further reduced.     

Adjusting the model to adjust the world: constructive mechanisms in postwar general equilibrium theory

Economic methodologists most often study the relations between models and reality while focusing on the issues of the model's epistemic relevance in terms of its relation to the ‘real world’ and representing the real world in a model. We complement the discussion by bringing the model's constructive mechanisms or self-implementing technologies in play. By this, we mean the elements of the economic model that are aimed at ‘implementing’ it by envisaging the ways to change the reality in order to bring it more in line with the model. We are thus concerned mainly not with the ways to change the model to ‘fit’ the reality, but rather with the model's own armature that is supposed to transform the world along theoretical lines. The case we study is Arrow–Debreu–McKenzie general equilibrium model. In particular, we show the following: gradient methods and stability could be regarded as constructive mechanisms of general equilibrium modeling in the context of market socialism debates; the obsession of general equilibrium theorists with these concepts can be partly explained by the fact that they hoped not to be faithful to reality, but rather to adjust it to fit the theoretical model; mechanism design theory initiated by the stability theorist Leonid Hurwicz could be seen as a successor of this position. We conclude by showing the relevance of this analysis for epistemic culture of much of contemporary economics and hence, claim that it is an important complement to the traditional philosophy of economic modeling.     

Existence of equilibrium in an OLG model with production and altruistic preferences

Summary. This note deals with the existence and uniqueness of a non-trivial steady-state equilibrium in an overlapping generations (OLG) model with productive capital and altruistic agents. We establish a necessary and sufficient condition for operative bequests which extends Abel (1987) and Weil (1987). Interestingly, we prove that the OLG model with production and altruistic agents always experiences a non-trivial steady-state equilibrium. Received: July 16, 1998; revised version: January 29, 1999     

An improved generalized moments estimator for a spatial moving average error model

Following Arnold and Wied (2010), we suggest an improved generalized moments estimator for the spatial moving average error model which takes explicitly into account that the moment conditions are based on OLS residuals rather than the true disturbances.     

Rational expectations for large CGE models: A practical algorithm and a policy application

We describe a simple iterative method for solving large dynamic CGE models under rational expectations. Details are given for Australia's MONASH model but the approach applies to a wide range of CGE models. The method is automated in the RunMONASH Windows software, putting CGE modelling under rational expectations within the reach of non-specialist modellers. We provide an illustrative application in which MONASH results under rational expectations are compared with results under static expectations. The application and supporting software can be downloaded. Results from the application are interpreted in terms of elementary economic mechanisms.     

A new class of deprivation-based generalized Gini indices

Summary. This paper attempts to merge two strands of the literature on relative deprivation and generalized Gini indices by designing a new class of generalized Gini indices based on the concept of relative deprivation. In this connection, rank-dependent marginal deprivation functions are introduced. A new class of generalized Gini indices is derived axiomatically. It turns out to be the sum of modified versions of the S-Gini and the I-Gini introduced by Donaldson and Weymark (1980). Received: December 23, 1998; revised version: November 9, 1999     

A competitive model of economic geography

Summary. Most of the literature argues that competitive analysis has nothing interesting to say about location. This paper argues, to the contrary, that a competitive model can have something interesting to say about location, provided that locations are not identical and transportation costs are not zero. To do this, it constructs a competitive intertemporal general equilibrium model and applies it to a suggestive example of migration.Received: 25 August 2003, Revised: 18 December 2003, JEL Classification Numbers: D5, R0.Our interest in this topic has been stimulated over the years by many conversations with Marcus Berliant. We thank an anonymous referee for exceptionally careful and useful comments. Financial support from the UCLA Academic Committee on Research (Ellickson, Zame) and the National Science Foundation (Zame) is gratefully acknowledged. Views expressed here are those of the authors and do not necessary reflect the views of any funding agency.     

A new generalized volatility proxy via the stochastic volatility model

This article proposes power transformation of absolute returns as a new proxy of latent volatility in the stochastic model. We generalize absolute returns as a proxy for volatility in that we place no restriction on the power of absolute returns. An empirical investigation on the bias, mean square error and relative bias is carried out for the proposed proxy. Simulation results show that the new estimator exhibiting negligible bias appears to be more efficient than the unbiased estimator with high variance.