In this paper we show that a non-monotonic relationship links certain structural characteristics of the banking market to financial stability, including the number of banks in the market, the branching decisions and branch productivity. Using a non-dynamic panel threshold regression we explain how financial stability is affected by baking market power when market power is subject to one or more...

Automated lip reading from videos requires segmentation. Threshold-based segmentation is straightforward, but it rarely used. This study proposes a histogram threshold based on the feedback of shape information. Both good and bad examples were used to train an $$\epsilon $$ -support vector regression model infer accuracy region shape. The was optimised minimise error. proposed method tested 895...

This paper studies control function (CF) approaches in endogenous threshold regression where the variable is allowed to be endogenous. We first use a simple example show that structural (STR) estimator of point Kourtellos, Stengos and Tan (2016, Econometric Theory 32, 827–860) inconsistent unless endogeneity level low compared effect. correct CF STR generate our using method extends two-stage l...

In regression discontinuity models, where the probability of treatment jumps discretely when a running variable crosses a threshold, an average treatment effect can be nonparametrically identi ed. We show that the derivative of this treatment effect with respect to the threshold is also nonparametrically identi ed and easily estimated, in both sharp and fuzzy designs. This marginal threshold tr...