This paper presents a regression procedure for inhomogeneous data characterized by varying variance, skewness and kurtosis or by an unequal amount of data over the estimation domain. The concept is based first on the estimation of the densities of an observed variable for given values of...

Betting markets are efficient if expected payouts on all possible bets on an event are equal. We compare two regression-based methods for testing for efficiency that have been used in previous research: One that uses normalized probabilities as the explanatory variable for payouts and one that...

In this study, we estimate the effect of industry distress on recovery rates by using the unconditional quantile regression (UQR) proposed in Firpo, Fortin, and Lemieux (2009). The UQR provides better interpretative and thus policy-relevant information on the marginal effect of the covariates...