In this book Simona Roccioletti reviews several valuable studies about risk measures and their properties; in particular she studies the new (and heavily discussed) property of "Elicitability" of a risk measure. More important, she investigates the issue related to the backtesting of Expected...

This paper surveys bootstrap and Monte Carlo methods for testing hypotheses in econometrics. Several different ways of computing bootstrap P values are discussed, including the double bootstrap and the fast double bootstrap. It is emphasized that there are many different procedures for...

This Monte-Carlo study investigates sensitivity of the Wilcoxon signed rank test to certainassumption violations in small samples. Emphasis is put on within-sample-dependence,between-sample dependence, and the presence of ties. Our results show that both assumptionviolations induce severe size...