Für Deutschland und andere entwickelte Länder werden Methoden zur Schätzung von sozioökonomischen Indikatoren auf räumlich disaggregierter Ebene benötigt, ohne dabei Populations-Mikrodaten zu verwenden, die meist nicht öffentlich verfügbar sind. Viele sozioökonomische Indikatoren, zum...

The convergence hypothesis has stimulated a heated debate within the growth literature. The present paper compares the two most commonly adopted empirical approaches, the regression approach and the distribution dynamics approach, and argues that the former fails to uncover important features of...

This paper considers a class of semiparametric estimators that take the form of density-weighted averages. These arise naturally in a consideration of semiparametric methods for the estimation of index and sample-selection models involving preliminary kernel density estimates. The question...

We develop a general error analysis framework for the Monte Carlo simulation of densities for functionals in Wiener space. We also study variance reduction methods with the help of Malliavin derivatives. For this, we give some general heuristic principles which are applied to diffusion...

This paper develops a technique for estimating age- profiles of earnings mobility using conditional kernel density estimation and establishes their statistical inference. Both pointwise and simultaneous confidence intervals are derived. The paper then examines the age- profile of earnings...

A class of local linear kernel density estimators based on weighted least squares kernel estimation is considered within the framework of Aalen's multiplicative intensity model. This model includes the filtered data model that, in turn, allows for truncation and/or censoring in addition to...

This paper using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) evaluates the performance of public health services of the Greek prefectures. The efficiency levels of the Greek prefectures are compared and analyzed in a regional context. With the use of bootstrap techniques and conditional full frontier...

One of the stylized facts of unemployment is that shifts in its mean rate between decades and half-decades account for most of its variance. In this paper, we use a purely statistical analysis based on nonparametric densitity estimation techniques to identify the dates of infrequent changes in...