Data series containing more than 200 observations are common in financial economics. The usefulness of the cusumsq test in such medium-sized samples has been hampered by the lack of tabulated confidence bounds and by the inaccuracy of asymptotic approximations. In this paper, the authors extend...

Modern econometrics stresses the diagnostic testing of estimated models as an important part of the model-building process. In a survey article published in this journal (Pagan and Vella 1989), methods for testing the validity of the assumptions underlying the censored regression of the Tobit...

Since the beginning of the 1990's, sick leave benefits accruing from the tax-financed Swedish social security insurance have been reduced a number of times. In this paper we use data from the survey on the Household Market and Non-market activities to estimate a fixed effects negative binomial...