This paper brings together the theory and practice of local linear kernel hazard estimation. Bandwidth selection is fully analysed, including Do-validation that is shown to have good practical and theoretical properties. Insight is provided into the choice of the weighting function in the local...

Until recently, the trend in world capital markets has been toward increasing globalization. Recent events in Latin America and Asia have caused many in policy-making circles to question whether this trend should be wholly, or at least partially, reversed. It is commonly argued that?at a...