Consider estimating the mean of a normal distribution with known variance, when that mean is known to lie in a bounded interval. In a decision-theoretic framework we study finite sample properties of a class of nonlinear' estimators. These estimators are based on thresholding techniques which...

For the problem of model selection, full cross-validation has been proposed as alternative criterion to the traditional cross-validation, particularly in cases where the latter one is not well defined. To justify the use of the new proposal we show that under some conditions, both criteria share...

In regression analysis there is typically a large collection of competing models available from which we want to select an appropriate one. This paper is concerned with asymptotic properties of procedures for selecting linear models, which are based on certain data-dependent criteria such as...

Diese Dissertation beinhaltet vier Aufsätze, die zur Literatur der Panelkointegrationsmethodik beitragen. Der erste Aufsatz vergleicht die Eigenschaften der vier Residuen-basierten Panelkointegrationstests von Pedroni (1995, 1999) mit dem Likelihood-basierten Panelkointegrationstest von Larsson...

We examine the impact of performance groups on the estimation of therelative importance of ¯rm, industry and other e®ects on corporate performance.Performance groups comprise ¯rms from the same industry with asimilar performance over a longer period of time. We present a statisticalmethod...

Sowohl die industrieökonomische als auch die betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung haben sich sehr intensiv mit den Einflußfaktoren des Unternehmenserfolgs beschäftigt. Geforscht wurde über einen langen Zeitraum parallel, ohne daß die eine Forschungsrichtung voneinander Notiz genommen hätte....