This paper analyzes the daily incidence of violence during the Second Intifada. We compare several alternative statistical models with different dynamic and structural stability characteristics while keeping modelling complexity to a minimum by only maintaining the assumption that the process...

Models of search in labor markets are potentially of great use for policy analy-sis since their parameters are structural. However, a common feature of these models is that an assumption of optimal behavior on the part of agents is necessary to achieve identifica-tion. From a classical...

There have been numerous applications of partial observability bivariate probit models. These models identify determinants of individual discrete outcomes when all that is observed are collective outcomes and individual characteristics. Numerical difficulties with their likelihood functions are...