I study the predictability of the EC’s merger decision procedure before and after the 2004 merger policy reform based on a dataset covering all affected markets of mergers with an official decision documented by DG Comp between 1990 and 2014. Using the highly flexible, non-parametric random...

Some unusual combinations of predictor values in multivariate regression often influence tampering with the output, and filtering those observations becomes the trickiest and most challenging task. This concern is prevalent and predominant in ecological domains, especially in soil samples, as...

The paper focuses on forests management strategies for natural hazards of nonindustrial owners, in the case where the forest provides nontimber services. We introduce a basic two-period model where the private owner manages natural hazards on his forest thanks to the accumulation of savings on...

Conflict over old growth pinelands and, more generally, over the place of non-timber values in Ontario's timber management processes has been controversial for many years. This article describes the evolution of that conflict and the traditional manner in which old growth and environmental...