In the wake of recent developments in United States administrative practice concerning the so-called 'zeroing' methodology in anti-dumping proceedings, it is worth looking back to certain key WTO Panel Reports issued in 2011. These decisions, and the United States' decision not to appeal them,...

We discuss inference for additive models with random scaling factors. The additive effects are of the form (1+g)f(z) where f is a nonlinear function of the continuous covariate z modeled by P(enalized)-splines and 1+g is a random scaling factor. Additionally, monotonicity constraints on the...

The aim of the paper is to emphasize the dependence between the return of the futures price of the frozen concentrated orange juice (FCOJ) and the variation of the temperature. Following Roll (1984) that proved that the market of frozen concentrated juice is influence by weather variable, we...