In a recent comment, Fort and Winfree claimed to clear up some confusion about the implications of contest theory and the game theoretic approach to modeling contests, following the earlier work of Szymanski and Kesenne. Among other things they claimed to show that the invariance principle can...

The aim of this paper is to introduce a general bootstrap by exchangeable weight random variables for empirical estimators of the semi-Markov kernels and of the conditional transition probabilities for semi-Markov processes with countable state space. Asymptotic properties of these generalized...

Comparisons between European and North American sports leagues have occurred over the years. In this paper, we attempt to bring these comparisons down to the essential elements -what has come to be called Rottenberg's (1956) invariance principle and theoretical insights into attempts to alter...

We provide a new framework for identifying timing. Our analysis focuses on the smoothed joint history of the fund with the benchmark. The approach is fully non-parametric. Therefore, it has the advantage of avoiding the misspecification problems so common in this literature. The test statistic...