This text presents modern developments in time series analysis and focuses on their application to economic problems. The book first introduces the fundamental concept of a stationary time series and the basic properties of covariance, investigating the structure and estimation of...

This book provides a broad introduction to computational aspects of Singular Spectrum Analysis (SSA) which is a non-parametric technique and requires no prior assumptions such as stationarity, normality or linearity of the series. This book is unique as it not only details the theoretical...

1 Old and Modern Classical Economics -- 2 Modern Classical Theory of Prices and Outputs -- 3 Values, Prices and Income Distribution in Actual Economies -- 4 Measures of Production Price-Labour Value Deviation and Production Conditions -- 5 Spectral Decompositions of Single-Product Economies -- 6...

Dieses Buch vermittelt anschaulich und leicht verständlich die Grundlagen der Wirtschaftsstatistik (Mathematische Voraussetzungen, Beschreibende und Schließende Statistik, Datenanalyse), die für empirische Aufgabenstellungen, Datenaufbereitung, Ergebnisinterpretation und den Einsatz von...

This book presents a rigorous treatment of the mathematical instruments available for dealing with income distributions, in particular Lorenz curves and related methods. The methods examined allow us to analyze, compare and modify such distributions from an economic and social perspective....

Understanding the distribution of income and wealth in an economy has been a classic problem in economics for the last hundred years. Apart from the rapidly decaying number density of people with their income crossing over to a robust power law for the very rich, known as the Pareto power-law,...

Continuous Gibrat#x2019;s Law and Gabaix#x2019;s Derivation of Zipf#x2019;s Law -- Flow of Firm Creation -- Useful Properties of Realizations of the Geometric Brownian Motion -- Exit or #x201C;Death#x201D; of Firms -- Deviations from Gibrat#x2019;s Law and Implications for Generalized Zipf#x2019;s Laws -- Firm#x2019;s Sudden...

Grundlagen der Optionspreistheorie -- Extrahierung der risikoneutralen Wahrscheinlichkeitsdichtefunktion -- Anwendungsgebiete risikoneutraler Wahrscheinlichkeitsdichtefunktionen -- Empirische Untersuchungen -- Zusammenfassung und Schlussfolgerungen.

The risk of counterparty default in banking, insurance, institutional, and pension-fund portfolios is an area of ongoing and increasing importance for finance practitioners. It is, unfortunately, a topic with a high degree of technical complexity. Addressing this challenge, this book provides a...

1 Quantile Regression: An Overview. 2 Linear and Nonparametric Quantile Regression -- 3 A Quantile Regression Analysis of Assessment Regressivity.-4 Quantile Version of the Spatial AR Model -- 5 . Conditionally Parametric Quantile Regression.- 6 Guide to Further Reading -- References