Which is the most appropriate econometric model to apply

[GURMANI CHADHA]

Dear All,

I am working with panel data - 300 companies for 7 years. My dependent variable is an ordinal variable ranging from 0-8 where 0 signifies no/inadequate data. These are CDP scores and 0-8 stands for quality of disclosure. The data collected has a considerable number of zero values in the dependent variable.
There are 4 independent variables which are ratio scores and 7 control variables out of which two (presence or absence of committee and CEO duality) are dummy dichotomous 0/1 coded variables.

I am a beginner to econometrics and need to understand which modeling technique would fit best and why?

Thanks in advance

[George Ford]

this might do.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1536867X20930984

not sure if zero-inflation is relevant here.

https://www.stata.com/features/overview/zero-inflated-ordered-probit/

[GURMANI CHADHA]

Thankyou Professor.