The main purpose of this study is analyzing the level technical efficiency MSMEs fashion offline with and online in Surabaya, examine differences between online, determine factors that affect efficiency. This uses purposive sampling method primary data. Non-parametric parametric approach used Data Envelopment Analysis, Independent sample T-Test Tobit Regression. First, results showed average wa...

Purpose Using a data set of Taiwanese listed firms from 2002 to 2015, this paper aims examine the determinants voluntarily appoint independent directors. Design/methodology/approach This study uses panel estimation exploit both cross-section and time-series nature data. Further, Tobit regression, generalized linear model (GLM) in additional analysis two-stage least squares mitigate for possible...

As an industry to enhance the national economy and improve people's lives, it is of great significance accurately analyze stock price real estate industry. Based on this, this paper takes 13 listed companies in Chinese as example, using H-P filtering method, OLS regression, Tobit model There are three main research results: (1) After HP analysis, long-term trend cyclical fluctuation curve price...

Tobit models are extended to allow threshold values which depend on individuals’ characteristics. In such models, the parameters are subject to as many inequality constraints as the number of observations, and the maximum likelihood estimation which requires the numerical maximisation of the likelihood is often difficult to be implemented. Using a Bayesian approach, a Gibbs sampler algorithm is...

Lasso methods are regularization and shrinkage methods widely used for subset selection and estimation in regression problems. From a Bayesian perspective, the Lasso-type estimate can be viewed as a Bayesian posterior mode when specifying independent Laplace prior distributions for the coefficients of independent variables (Park and Casella, 2008). A scale mixture of normal priors can also prov...

The study analysed the technical efficiency and technology gap ratio in cocoa production Nigeria. A multistage sampling technique was used to select 390 farmers from three zones where is commercially grown Separate stochastic frontier models were estimated for Kwara, Edo Ondo States, along with a metafrontier model obtain alternative estimates efficiencies of different states. Subsequently, Tobi...

Savings are very imperative for supporting and developing rural enterprises. The inability of households to save over time can significantly influence the rate and sustainability of capital accumulation and economic growth in developing countries. This research therefore assessed the level of savings and its correlates in rural areas of Kwara state, Nigeria. Data were obtained using multistage ...

BACKGROUND Contingent valuation (CV) is used to estimate the willingness to pay (WTP) of consumers for specific attributes to improve the quality of health care they received in three hospitals in Bangladesh. METHODS Random sample of 252 patients were interviewed to measure their willingness to pay for seven specified improvements in the quality of delivered medical care. Partial tobit regres...