RT Report
T1 Econometric modeling of business Telecommunications demand using Retina and Finite Mixtues
A1 Marinucci, Massimiliano
A1 Pérez Amaral, Teodosio
AB In this paper we estimate the business telecommunications demands for local, intra-LATA and inter-LATA services, using US data from a Bill Harvesting survey carried out during 1997. We model heterogeneity, which is present among firms due to a variety of different business telecommunication needs, by estimating normal heteroskedastic mixture regressions. The results show that a three-component mixture model fits the demand for local services well, while a two-component structure is used to model intra-LATA and inter-LATA demand. We characterize the groups in terms of their differences among the coefficients, and then use Retina to perform automatic model selection over an expanded candidate regressor set which includes heterogeneity parameters as well as transformations of the original variables.
PB Instituto Complutense de Análisis Económico. Universidad Complutense de Madrid
YR 2005
FD 2005
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/56620
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/56620
LA eng
DS Docta Complutense
RD 8 jun 2025