Rotondi and Pagliano considered the problem of identifying periods with different seismicity levels as a multiple-changepoint problem: after having estimated the complete part of the historical catalog related to a seismic source zone, inference was made about the number and the location of k...

This paper provides a brief survey of the bootstrap and its use in econometrics. As an introduction, the paper gives a description of the basics of the method, with a special emphasis on boostrap testing. A fairly large amount of space is devoted to discuss why bootstrap tests provide...