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Semi-Nonparametric Estimation of Binary Choice Models Using Panel Data: An Application to the Innovative Activity of German Firms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2016

François Laisney ,
Michael Lechner  and
Winfried Pohlmeier
François Laisney
Affiliation:
Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, and ZEW, Mannheim
Michael Lechner
Affiliation:
Universität Mannheim
Winfried Pohlmeier
Affiliation:
Universität Mannheim
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Summary

This paper presents an extension of Chamberlain's approach to modelling correlated random effects in a dichotomous model estimated on panel data. The extension consists in relaxing the arbitrary normality assumption made on all error terms and on specifying instead a SNP distribution for the composite error term resulting in each wave from Chamberlain's treatment of correlated random effects. An application to a panel of 1325 German firms illustrates the feasibility of the approach.

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Cet article présente une extension de l'approche de Chamberlain de la modélisation des chocs aléatoires corrélés dans un modèle à variables binaires estimé sur données d'échantillon. L'extension consiste en l'abandon de l'hypothèse arbitraire de normalité des résidus et le remplacement de celle-ci par une distribution SNP sur les résidus composites résultant du traitement à la Chamberlain des chocs aléatoires corrélés. Une application à un échantillon de 1325 firmes allemandes illustre la faisabilité d'une telle approche.

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Part II: Productivity Slowdown and Innovative Activity
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Recherches Économiques de Louvain/ Louvain Economic Review , Volume 58 , Issue 3-4: Output and Employment Fluctuations , 1992 , pp. 329 - 343
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Copyright © Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de recherches économiques et sociales 1992 

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Support from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft is gratefully acknowledged. We also wish to thank our colleagues in Mannheim, as well as three anonymous referees, for helpful comments.

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