22 novembre 2011, 14h00–15h30
Toulouse
Salle MS 003
Statistics Seminar
Résumé
This paper identifies and estimates a hazard model in which the unobserved heterogeneity is modeled as a positive Levy stochastic process. The paper provides empirically relevant examples of such a model. Conditions for the identification of the parameters of interest and for the consistency of the sieve maximum likelihood estimators are given. Results of Monte Carlo simulations are presented.