Attributable fractions are commonly used to measure the impact of risk factors on disease incidence in the population. These static measures can be extended to functions of time when the time to disease occurrence or event time is of interest. The present paper deals with nonparametric and...

Do political decentralisation and inter state competition favour innovation and growth? There has long been a lively debate surrounding this question, going back to David Hume and Immanuel Kant. This book is a new attempt to test its veracity. The existing literature tends to assume that the...

Microalgal biofuel research in China has made noticeable progress, and algae cultivation for biofuel production is considered to be an important contribution to <em>Greenhouse Gas</em> (GHG) mitigation and energy security. In this paper, the algal biofuel potentiality in China was reviewed from the...

Walking, the simplest form of transportation has many benefits for pedestrians and the society. Yet, pedestrians are a vulnerable group of people and safety concerns are a significant barrier in one's decision to walk. Multiple signal related pedestrian countermeasures have been proposed to...

Nonlinear filtering techniques and the quasi maximum likelihood estimator (QMLE) are applied to the problem of estimating the parameters of quadratic models for the term structure of interest rates. It is assumed that zero coupon bond yields data have been contaminated by noise, which allows the...

In this paper, we define a strongly regular quadratic Gaussian process to characterize quadratic term structure models (QTSMs) in a general Markov setting. The key of this definition is to keep the analytical tractability of QTSMs which has the quadratic term structure of the yield curve. In...

In this paper we examine a consistency problem for a multi-factor jump diffusion model. First we bridge a gap between a jump-diffusion model and a generalized Heath-Jarrow-Morton (HJM) model, and bring a multi- factor jump-diffusion model into the HJM framework. By applying the drift condition...

In this paper, a class of regular quadratic Gaussian processes is defined to characterize quadratic term structure models (QTSMs) in a general Markovian setting. The primary motivation for this definition is to provide a more general model for the quadratic term structure of the forward curve,...

Given an Heath-Jarrow-Morton (HJM) interest rate model and a parametrized family of finite dimensional forward rate curves, this paper provides us a way to project this infinite dimensional HJM forward rate curve to the finite dimensional manifold. This projection characterizes banks' behavior...

We propose and examine a simple model for credit migration and spread curves of a single firm both under the real-world and the risk-neutral measure. This model is a hybrid of a structural and a reduced-form model. Default is triggered either by successive downgradings of the firm or an...