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International Expansion of U.S. Mofa's (majority–owned Foreign Affiliates in Fire (finance, Insurance and Real Estate)
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Description
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a cross-section from 1982

*number of observations* : 50

*observation* : country

*country* : United States

Usage
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::

    data(Mofa)

Format
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A dataframe containing :

capexp
    capital expenditures made by the MOFA's of nonbank U.S. corporations
    in finance, insurance and real estate. Source: "U.S. Direct
    Investment Abroad: 1982 Benchmark Survey data." Table III.C 6.

gdp
    gross pomestic product. Source: "World Bank, World Development
    Report 1984." Table 3. (This variable is scaled by a factor of
    1/100,000)

sales
    sales made by the majority owned foreign affiliates of nonbank U.S.
    parents in finance, insurance and real estate. Source: "U.S. Direct
    Investment Abroad: 1982 Benchmark Survey Data." Table III.D 3. (This
    variable is scaled by a factor of 1/100)

nbaf
    the number of U.S. affiliates in the host country. Source: "U.S.
    Direct Investment Abroad: 1982 Benchmark Survey Data." Table 5.
    (This variable is scaled by a factor of 1/100)

netinc
    net income earned by MOFA's of nonbank U.S. corporations operating
    in the nonbanking financial sector of the host country. Source:
    "U.S. Direct Investment Abroad: 1982 Benchmark Survey Data." Table
    III.D 6.(This variable is scaled by a factor of 1/10)

Source
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Ioannatos, Petros E. (1995) “Censored regression estimation under
unobserved heterogeneity : a stochastic parameter approach”, *Journal of
Business and Economics Statistics*, **13(3)**, july, 327–335.

References
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Journal of Business Economics and Statistics web site :
`http://www.amstat.org/publications/jbes/ <http://www.amstat.org/publications/jbes/>`_.

See Also
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``Index.Source``, ``Index.Economics``, ``Index.Econometrics``,
``Index.Observations``
