The paper is concerned with the question whether the pricing of U.S. stocks has been efficient according to the present value model. We extended the MTAR-model used in the context of market efficiency using a rolling window estimation strategy. This rolling MTAR-analysis revealed that the...

We analyse differences between the wage distributions in the USA and Germany in 2001 both for women and men. The empirical analysis is based on the decomposition of differences using Cox's marginal (partial) likelihood. The approach based on rank invariant estimators such as Cox's is borrowed...