Regions vary strongly according to the participation of firms in R&Dactivity.By linking data on R&D activity at thefirm level with GIS based data on economic, and other locationfeatures of zoneswe are able to investigate the impactof local factors on R&D involvement for various types of...

In travel surveys most respondents apply rounding of departure andarrival times to multiples of 5, 15 and 30minutes: in the annual Dutch travel survey about 85-95 percent of allreported times are 'round' ones. We estimaterounding models for departure and arrival times. The model allows oneto...

This study develops a game-theoretic framework to examine the preservation and capitalization effects of government farmland preservation policies. More specifically, emphasis is given to the effects of such policies on the number and type of land buyers, the distribution of offer price, and the...

Capability indices that qualify process potential and process performance are practical tools for successful quality improvement activities and quality program implementation. Most existing methods to assess process capability were derived on the basis of the traditional frequentist point of...

The paper describes a theoretical approach to determine the downturn LGD for residential mortgages, which is compliant with the regulatory requirement and thus suited to be used for validation, at least as it can give benchmark results. The link between default rates and recovery rates is in...

This article studies how to employ aggregate data to estimate sectoral price stickiness, which is described by the Calvo-style price setting. We find that sectoral price stickiness cannot be effectively estimated by the Bayesian approach of the multisector new Keynesian model that is used in...

Process capability indices have been widely investigated as a means of summarising process performance relative to a set of specification limits. However, most research works in the literature were restricted to handle processes with symmetric tolerances. Recently, a generalised capability index...

Fragility curves (FCs) constitute an emerging tool for the seismic risk assessment of all elements at risk. They express the probability of a structure being damaged beyond a specific damage state for a given seismic input motion parameter, incorporating the most important sources of...

A procedure for estimating maximum values of seismic peak ground accelerationat the examined site and quantiles of its probabilistic distribution in a future timeinterval of a given length is considered. The input information for the method areseismic catalog and regression relation between peak...