In the context of an increasingly digitized global marketplace, this study seeks to shed light on its adoption in developing countries, focusing Morocco. Applying logit, probit, and conditional mixed-process probit models a sample 807 Moroccan firms, we identify key factors that influence e-commerce adoption. The results show younger, innovation-driven firms those with highly educated workforce...

Ordered probit and logit models have been frequently used to estimate the mean ranking of happiness outcomes (and other ordinal data) across groups. However, it has recently highlighted that such may not be identified in most applications. We suggest researchers focus on median comparison instead mean. This is because rank can even if not. Furthermore, ranks readily estimated using standard sta...

While the importance of banking sector on various fundamental economic variables is well-documented in literature, little known about relationship between bank market structure and access to finance for opaque firms, particularly developing economies such as South Africa. Using ordered probit logit models, we investigate impact small, micro medium enterprises (SMMEs)access finance. Our results ...

The familiar logit and probit models provide convenient settings for many binary response applications, but a larger class of link functions may be occasionally desirable. Two parametric families of link functions are investigated: the Gosset link based on the Student t latent variable model with the degrees of freedom parameter controlling the tail behavior, and the Pregibon link based on the ...

Two parameters, C and r, must be carefully predetermined in establishing an efficient support vector machine (SVM) model. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to develop a genetic-based SVM (GA-SVM) model that can automatically determine the optimal parameters, C and r, of SVM with the highest predictive accuracy and generalization ability simultaneously. This paper pioneered on employing a ...

We compare the private and social incentives for privacy when sellers can commit to transparent privacy policies that are understood by consumers. The purpose is to establish a baseline for how well markets perform when firms’ privacy policies are common knowledge. In this setting, if the market is competitive, the outcome is first best or firms provide too much privacy. For monopolized markets...

  I n this paper, the effects of the Food Stamp (FS) Program (now referred to as Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-SNAP) on individuals’ food choices are evaluated. In other words, I examine how households' food choice or relative food consumption is changed by FS participation. For this purpose six food groups are created using 2016 Consumer Expenditure Diary Surv...

This paper examines the relationship between senior management team culture and organizational performance in English acute hospitals (NHS Trusts) over three time periods between 2001/2002 and 2007/2008. We use a validated culture rating instrument, the Competing Values Framework, to measure senior management team culture. Organizational performance is assessed using a wide range of routinely c...