Testing for a mediation effect is important in many disciplines, but is made difficult - even asymptotically - by the influence of nuisance parameters. Classical tests such as likelihood ratio (LR) and Wald tests have very poor size and power properties in some parts of the parameter space, and...

Finite sample distributions of studentized inequality measures differ substantially from their asymptotic normal distribution in terms of location and skewness. We study these aspects formally by deriving the second-order expansion of the first and third cumulant of the studentized inequality...

This paper derives exact expressions for the statistical curvature and related geometric quantities in the first order autoregressive models. We present a method that combines the algebra of differential and difference operators to simplify the problem, and to obtain results valid for all sample...

We develop a novel filtering and estimation procedure for parametric option pricing models driven by general affine jump-diffusions. Our procedure is based on the comparison between an option-implied, model-free representation of the conditional log-characteristic function and the model-implied...