Bayes' Estimates of the Double Hurdle Model in the Presence of Fixed Costs
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Author
Holloway, Garth J.
Barrett, Christopher B.
Ehui, Simeon K.
Abstract
We present a model of market adoption (participation) where the presence of non-negligible fixed costs leads to non-zero censoring of the traditional double-hurdle regression. Fixed costs arise due to household resources that must be devoted a priori to the decision to participate in the market. These costs-usually a cost of time-motivate two-step decision-making and focus attentions on the minimum-efficient scale of operations (the minimum amount of milk sales) at which market entry becomes viable. This focus, in turn, motivates a non-zero-censored Tobit regression estimated through routine application of Markov chain Monte Carlo Methods.
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WP 2002-42 December 2002
Date Issued
2002-12
Publisher
Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University
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