Hi all,
My first post.
This may seem a basic question !
I have a panel of firms 47 firms over a 10-year period. I am interested in examining attributes of the founding context of these firms and their short, medium, and long-term impact on various measures of firm performance. In essence I want to test the imprinting hypothesis that posits that elements in the founding contexts will leave long lasting imprints on various firm characteristics. The founding conditions I like to test are:
1.Organizational origin of the firm ( I deal with spinoffs from a university or established firm), this is a dummy variable; 2. Market growth at the time of firm founding; this is a continuous variable 3. International experience of founding team, a dummy variable. My dependent variables are continuous or count.
How can I estimate the parameters of these initial variables that are entered in my panel in the first year ? I use STATA 10.
Thanks so much!
Regards,
Dirk Libaers
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