Bayesian Estimation of Multivariate Panel Probits with Higher-order Network Interdependence and an Application to Firms' Global Market Participation in Guangdong

Author(s)/Creator(s)

Badi H. Baltagi, Syracuse UniversityFollow
Peter H. Egger, ETH Zürich
Michaela Kesina, University of Groningen

Description/Abstract

This paper proposes a Bayesian estimation framework for panel-data sets with binary dependent variables where a large number of cross-sectional units is observed over a short period of time, and cross-sectional units are interdependent in more than a single network domain. The latter provides for a substantial degree of flexibility towards modelling the decay function in network neighborliness (e.g., by disentangling the importance of rings of neighbors) or towards allowing for several channels of interdependence whose relative importance is unknown ex ante. Besides the flexible parameterization of cross-sectional dependence, the approach allows for simultaneity of the equations. These features should make the approach interesting for applications in a host of contexts involving structural and reduced-form models of multivariate choice problems at micro-, meso-, and macroeconomic levels. The paper outlines the estimation approach, illustrates its suitability by simulation examples, and provides an application to study exporting and foreign ownership among potentially interdependent firms in the specialized and transport machinery sector in the province of Guangdong.

Document Type

Working Paper

Date

2-2022

Keywords

Network Models; Spatial Models; Higher-Order Network Interdependence; Multivariate Panel Probit; Bayesian Estimation; Firm-Level Data; Chinese Firms

Language

English

Funder(s)

SNF

Funding ID

100018-169537

Series

Working Papers Series

Acknowledgements

The authors gratefully acknowledge numerous helpful comments by three anonymous reviewers and the editor in charge (Herman K. van Dijk) on an earlier version of the manuscript. Egger gratefully acknowledges funding from SNF under grant no. 100018-169537.

Disciplines

Economic Policy | Economics | Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration

ISSN

1525-3066

Additional Information

Working paper no. 247

Recommended Citation

Baltagi, Badi H.; Egger, Peter H.; and Kesina, Michaela, "Bayesian Estimation of Multivariate Panel Probits with Higher-order Network Interdependence and an Application to Firms' Global Market Participation in Guangdong" (2022). Center for Policy Research. 381.
https://surface.syr.edu/cpr/381

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