Financial Development and International Agricultural Trade ...

First, by Jensen’s inequality (), they argue that the log linear model cannot be expected to provide unbiased estimates of mean effects when the errors are heteroscedastic. The second point emphasized by Santos Silva Tenreyo is the prevalence of zero trade flows. Obviously, the log linear model is not defined for observations with zero trade. ................
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