In China, environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs) play an important supervisory role to address ecological issues together with government regulation and enterprise implementation. This study examines the effect of ENGO presence on corporate environmental responsibility (CER) performance, along with internal factors as covariate variables. With a sample of 677 enterprises, it opera...

This study uses a sample of 715 banks from 95 countries and two-stage data envelopment analysis (DEA) to provide international evidence on the impact of regulations and supervision approaches on banks’ efficiency. We first use DEA to estimate technical and scale efficiency. We then use Tobit regression to investigate the impact of several regulations related to capital adequacy, private monitor...

Credit is a strategic empowerment tool that has the potential to change the life of a person, family or community from a situation of abject poverty to a more dignified life. It can transform self-image, unlock potential and boost the productivity and well-being of the poor and vulnerable, especially farmers. This paper estimates the determinants of credit demand by farmers and supply by Rural ...

Title of Thesis: Using Procedural Justice to Explore the Relationship between Victim Satisfaction with Police and Victim Participation in Prosecution Sarah Jessica Greenman, Master of Arts, 2010 Thesis Directed by: Associate Professor Laura Dugan, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice This thesis uses procedural justice to explore the relationship between victim satisfaction with the p...

This study examined characteristics of individual bond and stock holders, using data from the 1989 Survey of Consumer Finances. The results of the tobit models showed bonds and stocks are more likely to be held by families with adequate financial resources to maintain daily lives and enough funds to meet short term financial needs. Households having a financial planning horizon of ten years or ...

This paper examines the impact of family size on household saving. We first study a theoretical life-cycle model that includes finite lifetimes and saving for retirement and in which parents care about the consumption of their dependent children. The model implies a negative relationship between the number of dependent children in the family and the household’s saving rate. Then, we test the mo...

We propose an alternative Hausman test for normality in the Tobit model. Unlike the previous tests by Ruud (1984) or Newey (1987), our test compares the Tobit estimator to an estimator which is consistent both under the null hypothesis and under the alternative hypothesis. To do so, it utilizes a purely nonparametric estimator for the Tobit model proposed by Newey (1999b) and Jeong (2004). We p...

Errors in variables models in linear regression are an old and important theoretical topic, but rather neglected in applied statistics. This is especially true for Bayesian statistics where the numerical diiculties for the estimation of the models are even greater. Using a Bayesian approach and modern numerical integration techniques (the Gibbs sampler) we derive the necessary full conditional ...

cotton as a strategic product plays an important role inthe economy of boshrouyehwhere is known as the major cotton producing center of khorasan-e-jonoubi. in this paper, efficiency of boshroyeh cotton farms in 2007 have been calculated using data envelopment analysis (dea) and determinants of efficiency were identified using tobit regression analysis. the data was collected from questionnaires...