We obtain semiparametric efficiency bounds for estimation of a location parameter in a time series model where the innovations are stationary and ergodic conditionally symmetric marginale differences but otherwise prossess general depence and distributions of unknown from. We then describe an...

We show that semiparametric adaptive maximum likelihood estimators have desirable robustness properties when the innivations in a location parameter model are uncorrelated but not necessarily independent. We show that such estimators have asymptotic covariance matrices equal to the inverse of...

A group of agents have claims on a resource, but there is not enough of it to honor all of the claims. How should it be divided? A group of agents decide to undertake a public project that they can jointly afford. How much should each of them contribute? This essay is an update of Thomson...