An index fund is a mutual fund that aims to imitate some benchmark index. There are several advantages of investing in an index fund, namely, exposure to a diversified portfolio, minimization of company-specific risks, high liquidity, etc. In India, there has been a significant growth in the...

We obtain the rates of pointwise and uniform convergence of kernel density estimators using random bandwidths under i.i.d. as well as strongly mixing dependence assumptions. Pointwise rates are faster and not affected by the tail of the density.

A class of models is considered to describe the data to be collected using a design of experiment. One model within the class will possibly describe the data more adequately than the others which will be the “true model” but we do not know its identification. In the pioneering work of...

type="main" xml:id="jtsa12063-abs-0001" <title type="main">Abstract</title>Consider an infinite dimensional vector linear process. Under suitable assumptions on the parameter space, we provide consistent estimators of the autocovariance matrices. In particular, under causality, this includes the infinite-dimensional...

We investigate when identical agents will be treated asymmetrically in a simple team setting. Asymmetric treatment is optimal when the agents' individual contributions to team performance are strategic complements. Symmetric treatment of identical agents is optimal when the agents' contributions...