Handling endogenous regressors by joint estimation using copulas

Marketing Science

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 567-586

  Park, Sungho ^a   Gupta, Sachin ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management   (United States)

Author keywords

Copula method; Endogeneity; Instrumental variables; Linear regression model; Logit model; Random coefficient; Two stage least squares

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864974354     PISSN: 07322399     EISSN: 1526548X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mksc.1120.0718     Document Type: Article

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