evidence in favor of the ones that allow for the possibility that the economy has experienced recurrent breaks. The recession … indicate the importance of considering recurrent breaks for monitoring business cycles. …

free-lancers (who can take breaks at their discretion) and regular workers (who work on a fixed schedule). …

data. In particular, the consequences of inflation having discrete breaks in mean have not been studied adequately. We show … by means of simulations and a detailed empirical example based on United States data that not taking account of breaks … may lead to biased, and therefore spurious, estimates of Phillips curves. We suggest a method to account for the breaks in …

common topic in sports scheduling, to deal with the conflicting constraints of breaks and separation. In practice, usually a … small number of breaks and a large separation are desirable, but typical methods of scheduling DRRTs cannot obtain both a … minimum number of breaks and a positive separation. We firstly consider DRRTs by this scheme with a separation of two slots …