Wealth is highly concentrated among a few very rich individuals. The usual models of wealth transmission offer life-cycle and family motives for bequests. The hypothesis here is that those motives are not likely to be active for very rich individuals. Using a sample of French estate records...

Five decades ago, Bhattacharyya established a series of lower bounds for the variance of an unbiased estimator, since then called the Bhattacharyya bounds. In 1974 Blight and Rao have shown that the series of Bhattacharyya bounds converges to the variance of the best unbiased estimator. In this...

The paper considers parametric and nonparametric estimation of the distribution function F. Issues of particular interest are the identification properties of this model and, in the nonparametric case, the speed of convergence of the estimator F. The latter depends upon the properties of the...

As the structure of consumer preferences plays a crucial role in the analysis of differentiated product markets, estimation of demand systems is a sensitive task. This paper contributes to this project in two ways. First, we develop a method to deal with the simultaneous choice of an equipment...

The setup of our study is the Principal Component Analysis for dependent Hilbert space valued random vectors with examples taken from the ARH (1) model. We prove that convergence rates of the j ^(th) empirical random projection operator II from n to j for almost sure convergence and convergence...

The problem of approximating a general regression function m(x)= E(Y|X=x) is addressed. As in the case of the classical L2-type projection pursuit regression considered by Hall (1989), we propose to approximate m(x) through a regression of Y given an index, that is a unidimensional projection of X.

The aim of this paper is to relate some recent results on Levy processes (see Schoutens and Teugels, 1998) to a recent study of the author (1996) on multidimensional natural exponential families. In this way, we consider a natural construction of Sheffer polynomials associated to a d-dimensional...

We present a simulation model designed to determine the impact on congestion of policies for dealing with non-recurrent congestion (i.e. travel time uncertainty).

The Jordan Form of the VAR's Companion matrix is used for proving the equivalence between the statement that there are no jordan blocks of order two or higher in the Jordan matrix and the conditions of Granger's Representation Theorem for an I(1) series. Furthermore, a Diagonal polynomial matrix...