Use the following information to answer question. What determines the voting behavior in a presidential election? An

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Use the following information to answer question. What determines the voting behavior in a presidential election? An economist believes that people “vote their pockets.” He argues that economic condition is the greatest concern of voters. Therefore, the percentage of votes the incumbent gets depends on macroeconomic variables such as the inflation rate (IR), the unemployment rate (UR), and the growth rate of disposable income (DI). The following table contains these data:image text in transcribed

In the regression, we are interested in what percentage of votes the incumbent receives. We decide to use the following model:image text in transcribed

Are you convinced that DI is the only significant variable that affects y in our model? Before you run the regression, do you expect to obtain a low or a high R2?

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Statistics For Business And Financial Economics

ISBN: 9781461458975

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Authors: Cheng Few Lee , John C Lee , Alice C Lee

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