Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/155184 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 21.2001
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
We analyse the conditions under which an (S,s) rule may be derived and compare these with alternative rules. We consider the case of labour demand with fixed adjustment costs. The (S,s) rule implies a specific ordering of choices: downward adjustment, non-adjustment and upward adjustment with the decision of inaction lying crucially in the middle. We may model firms' decisions as an (S,s) rule only if it is possible to characterise unobserved heterogeneity as an exact negative relation between the choice-specific error terms. Assuming that these are normally distributed, the particular ordering of choices implied by the (S,s) rule may be estimated by an ordered probit. We test the (S,s) rule nesting the ordered probit within a multinomial model with correlated error terms. We find that restriction of univariate error distribution is rejected by the data.
Subjects: 
(S
s) rules
adjustment costs
probit models
JEL: 
C25
J23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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