State price density (SPD) contains important information concerning market expectations. In existing literature, a constrained estimator of the SPD is found by nonlinear least squares in a suitable Sobolev space...

We explore connections between the certainty equivalent return (CER) functional and theunderlying utility function. Curvature properties of the functional depend upon how utilityfunction attributes relate to Hyperbolic Absolute Risk Aversion (HARA) type utility functions.If the CER functional is...

This paper provides a longitudinal perspective on changes in Spanish male earnings inequality for the period 1993-2000, by decomposing the earnings covariance structure into its permanent and transitory parts. According to the Spanish sample of the European Community Household Panel,...

At the firm level, revenue and costs are well measured but prices and quantities are not. This paper shows that because of these data limitations estimates of returns to scale at the firm level are for the revenue function, not production function. Given this observation, the paper argues that,...

A random variable dominates another random variable with respectto the covariance order if the covariance of any two monotone increasingfunctions of this variable is smaller. We characterize completely thecovariance order, give strong sufficient conditions for it, present a numberof examples in...

Bargaining under uncertainty is modeled by the assumption that thereare several possible states of nature, each of which is identied with abargaining problem...

Lange Zeit stand man in der Marketing- und Sozialforschung vor dem Problem die kausalenZusammenhänge nicht beobachtbarer Variablen – so genannte Konstrukte – modellierenund vor allem erforschen zu können.Zwar gab es die Regressionsanalyse, mit deren Hilfe man den Einfluss mehrerer...

Vorliegendes Arbeitspapier beschäftigt sich mit den Gütemaßen des Partial Least Square-Ansatzes zur Bestimmung von Kausalmodellen.