Dirk P. <[email protected]>:
Reconceptualize your panel data as a cross-section of lives of firms.
You can describe subsequent trajectories, but you have a cross-section
of data on lifetime outcomes; firms are only founded once. A survival
regression is one analysis to consider; see -help st- and -findit
hshaz-.
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Libaers, Dirk P. <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> My first post.
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> This may seem a basic question !
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> 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:
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> 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.
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> How can I estimate the parameters of these initial variables that are entered in my panel in the first year ? I use STATA 10.
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