Conducted by Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics, the labour force survey is the main source of information regarding the labour force in Israel.

Vorliegendes Arbeitspapier beschäftigt sich mit der mathematischen Modellierung von Marktrisiken.

Filtrations have been introduced by Doob and have been a fundamentalfeature of the theory of stochastic processes. Most basic objects, such asmartingales, semimartingales, stopping times or Markov processes involvethe notion of filtration.[...]

This paper shows that preferences alone cannot explain the patterns reported in the literature.

This paper proposes a novel methodology, based on the Common Principal Component analysis, allowing one to estimate the factors driving the term structure of interest rates, in the presence of time-varying covariance structure.

Many economic and econometric applications require the integration of functions lacking a closed form antiderivative, which is therefore a task that can only be solved by numerical methods. We propose a new family of probability densities that can be used as substitutes and have the property of...

There is strong empirical evidence that the pricing kernel is Ushaped,which provides a way to explain the substantial coskewnesspremium. Existing studies typically use a polynomial approximationof the pricing kernel. Problematically, these polynomials have, inmost cases, increasing parts by...

Many statistical applications require an estimate of a covariance matrix and/or its inverse.When the matrix dimension is large compared to the sample size, which happensfrequently, the sample covariance matrix is known to perform poorly and may suffer fromill-conditioning. There already exists...

[...]Ziel des vorliegenden Beitrags ist es, eine derartige Weiterentwicklung des Schätzverfahrens darzulegen und eine Neuberechnung der innerhalb der nächsten fünf Jahre zu erwartenden Unternehmensnachfolgen unter Anwen-dung dieses Schätzverfahrens vorzunehmen. Grundlage hierfür ist ein...