Structural equation models (SEM) are commonly used to analyze the relationship between variables some of which may be latent, such as individual ``attitude'' to and ``behavior'' concerning specific issues. A number of difficulties arise when we want to compare a large number of groups, each with...

Connections between Statistics and Archaeology have always appeared very fruitful. The objective of this paper is to offer an outlook of some statistical techniques that are being developed in the most recent years and that can be of interest for archaeologists in the short run.

The present study approaches the dynamic correlation between GDP and the gross fixed capital formation, based on the use of ICOR (incremental capital output ratio) indicator in order to determine the required investment volume for the period 2005-2008, under various efficiency conditions,...

This paper studies the extent of rent sharing in the Italian metal- mechanical industry by analyzing separately what occurs at each stage of wage negotiations. In particular, we evaluate how, through the bargaining process, aggregate and idiosyncratic productivity shocks influence respectively...

This paper proposes an adaptive version for the Metropolis adjusted Langevin algorithm with a truncated drift (T-MALA). The scale parameter and the covariance matrix of the proposal kernel of the algorithm are simultaneously and recursively updated in order to reach the optimal acceptance rate...

A novel experiment is used to show that the effect of a policy on the level of cooperation is greater when it is chosen democratically by the subjects than when it is exogenously imposed. In contrast to the previous literature, our experimental design allows us to control for selection effects...

Empirical researchers routinely encounter sample selection bias whereby 1) the regressor of interest is assumed to be exogenous, 2) the dependent variable is missing in a potentially non-random manner, 3) the dependent variable is characterized by an unbounded (or very large) support, and 4) it...

Matching estimators for average treatment effects are widely used in evaluation research despite the fact that their large sample properties have not been established in many cases. In this article, we develop a new framework to analyze the properties of matching estimators and establish a...

In this work we found first derivatives for the log likelihood function of the multivariate probit model.