This paper studies the interaction between job mobility and housing mobility by considering the duration of commutes. Conventional models assume that the employrnent location has priority over the residentiallocation and that the latter is adapted to the former. This implies that the duration of...

Most of hedge funds databases are now keeping history of dead funds in order to control biases in empirical analysis. It is then possible to use these data for the analysis of hedge funds lifetimes and survivorship. This paper proposes two nonparametric speci fications of duration models. First,...

In the competing risks model the type and time of the first event are observed and the other latent event is unobserved. This model is widely used in engineering, biology and, recently, social sciences. However, if types of an event are inessential, time to an event can be analyzed more...