hello statlisters,
I have a panel set up like this
firm1 month varX varY varZ....
.....
.....
firm2 month varX varY varZ....
the panel is unbalanced. varX is a continous variable while varY has
lots of zeros, but when present they are quite large (000s).The other
vars are the variables like size etc.
The months are all relative to some other date, which is particular to
each company . So they go from say -36 to +36.
I am basically interested in exploring the relationship between varX
and varY in the -36 to 0 month period and 0 to +36 month period.
particularly which leads or follows which. I am thinking of granger causality.
But can one do that on panel data in stata?
In this context would the large number of zeros be an issue?
There is also the issue of the skewness of varY which I hope to get
around this ( as many papers have done in the past) by log
transforming (1+ varY). Is this a reasonable thing to do?
any help or pointers much appreciated.
thanks
rich
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