If, in the mid 1980's, one had asked the average statistician about the difficulties of using Bayesian Statistics, his/her most likely answer would have been"Well, there is this problem of selecting a prior distribution and then, even if one agrees on the prior, the whole Bayesian inference is...

If, in the mid 1980?s, one had asked the average statistician about the difficulties of using Bayesian Statistics, his/her most likely answer would have been ?Well, there is this problem of selecting a prior distribution and then, even if one agrees on the prior, the whole Bayesian inference is...

This paper provides extensions of the work on subsampling by Bertail et al. (2004) for strongly mixing case to weakly dependent case by application of the results of Doukhan and Louhichi (1999). We investigate properties of smooth and rough subsampling estimators for distributions of converging...

Our aim is to analyze the link between optimism and risk aversion in a subjective expected utility setting and to estimate the average level of optimism when weighted by risk tolerance. This quantity is of particular importance since it characterizes the consensus belief in risk-taking...