credit risk, interest rate and exchange rate risks, liquidity risk and contagion risk, and are guided in the design of stress …

, Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines (MARS) is used in identifying household poverty correlates in the Philippines. Models … produced by MARS are more parsimonious yet contains theoretically and empirically sound set of household poverty correlates and … have high accuracy in identifying a poor household. MARS provides a better alternative to logistic regression for a more …

This article considers non-unitary models of household behavior. These models suppose explicitly that households … household behavior in these models are subject to constraints that differ from the traditional Slutsky conditions. In addition …, in a certain number of specific cases, the preferences of the different household members can be identified from …