Conditional inference plays a central role in logical and Bayesian reasoning, and is used in a wide range of … applications. It basically consists of expressing conditional relationship between parent and child propositions, and then to … propositions. While conditional reasoning is a well established part of classical binary logic and probability calculus, its …

and Lee (2010), and Polity IV Project datasets. The empirical analysis shows that conditional convergence occurs among the … countries in the sample and that FDI net inflows per worker slightly increases the speed of conditional convergence. This study …

We explore the empirical usefulness of conditional coskewness to explain the cross-section of equity returns. We find …. In particular we find that when the conditional market skewness is positive investors are willing to sacrifice 7 …., Siddique, A., 2000a. Conditional skewness in asset pricing models tests. Journal of Finance 65, 1263?1295.) (a portfolio that …