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ISEG 2S | Testing non-nested models for non-negative data with many zeros

20 Mai from 11:30 to 11:31
Quelhas 6 | Floor 3 | Delta Room

 

Speaker
João Santos Silva
University of Essex


Presentation

Testing non-nested models for non-negative data with many zeros

Jointly with:
CEMAPRE Seminars

Abstract
In economic applications it is often the case that the variate of interest is non-negative and its distribution has a mass-point at zero. Many regression strategies have been proposed to deal with data of this type but, although there has been a long debate in the literature on the appropriateness of different models, formal statistical tests to choose between the competing specifications are not often used in practice. We use the non-nested hypothesis testing framework of Davidson and MacKinnon (1981, "Several tests for model specification in the presence of alternative hypotheses," Econometrica, 49, 781-793) to develop a novel and simple regression-based specification test that can be used to discriminate between these models.

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This seminars series is organized by Margarida Abreu (ECO), Raquel M. Gaspar (FIN/MG) and Isabel Proença (QM).

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