On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Mário Marques <mmarques@eeg.uminho.pt> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I have a count data panel (xtnbreg) and I have modelled the number of
> new foreign firms on a set of indepvars using country-pairs fixed
> effects.
> A referee suggested me recently to include year dummies to account for
> time trends, the results obtained before and after the inclusion of
> these variables are as follows:
You can simply use a LR test here by fitting the nested model.
However, you might note that there are a bunch of clusters being
dropped for being all 0, which happens because you have no variance on
the DV and are using a fixed effects estimator. Is this of concern?
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