In a dynamic labor market worker-firm matches dissolve frequently causing workers to separate and firms to look for replacements.A separation may be initiated by the worker (a quit) or the firm (a layoff), or may result from a joint decision.A dissolution of a worker-firm match may be ineffcient...

This paper introduces a new class of robust regression estimators. The proposed twostep least weighted squares (2S-LWS) estimator employs data-adaptive weights determined from the empirical distribution, quantile, or density functions of regression residuals obtained from an initial robust fit....

In this paper, we analyse the labour market using a matching model. In our labour market, there are two types of workers: primary workers; and secondary workers. Primary workers are those workers who, when in employment, are fully productive and, when in unemployment, have a maximum search...

In this paper, we analyze the interactions between growth and the contracting environment in the production sector.Allowing incompleteness in contracting implies that viable production relationships for firms and workers, and therefore the profitability of industries, depend on the rates of...

Based on survey data covering 8,387 firms in 20 countries we compare credit demand and credit supply for firms in Eastern Europe to those for firms in selected Western European countries.

Multivariate regression is discussed, where the observations of the dependent variables are (monotone) missing completely at random; the explanatory variables are assumed to be completely observed.We discuss OLS-, GLS- and a certain form of E(stimated) GLS-estimation.It turns out that...

AMS classifications; 91A12; 90B05;

In this paper big boss interval games are introduced and various characterizations are given. The structure of the core of a big boss interval game is explicitly described and plays an important role relative to interval-type bi-monotonic allocation schemes for such games. Specifically, each...