ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Excessive shrinkage threatens the viability of retailers, especially grocery retailersbecause they … excessive shrinkage, but South African law generally requires that theemployer prove individual culpability or poor performance … to justify a dismissal. Inmost cases, retailers are not able to identify the exact causes of shrinkage or thoseemployees …

, shrinkage and forecast combinations. …

indispensable tool of the practitioner. A feature of the lasso is a “tuning” parameter that controls the amount of shrinkage applied …

. Indeed, this enforces a form of shrinkage on the weights which ensures good out-of-sample performance of the combined …

There is a vast literature that specifies Bayesian shrinkage priors for vector autoregressions (VARs) of possibly large … develop priors for panel VARs (PVARs). The parametric and semi-parametric priors I suggest not only perform valuable shrinkage …

to infinity. Such result is obtained without assuming a factor structure. A Monte Carlo study suggests that shrinkage …

construction of the final instruments, may provide effective estimation strategies. Shrinkage is a well known approach that … promotes parsimony. We consider a new shrinkage 2SLS estimator. We derive a consistency result for this estimator under general …