A problem that sometimes occurs in undertaking empirical research in accounting and
finance is that the theoretically correct form of the relation between the dependent and …

This book provides the most comprehensive treatment to date of microeconometrics, the
analysis of individual-level data on the economic behavior of individuals or firms using …

We demonstrate that, under a theorem proposed by Vuong, the likelihood ratio statistic
based on the Kullback–Leibler information criterion of the null hypothesis that a random …

An Introduction to Wavelets and Other Filtering Methods in Finance and Economics presents
a unified view of filtering techniques with a special focus on wavelet analysis in finance and …

This study adopts a disaggregated regional focus to test for the human capital (HC)-growth
nexus in selected nine Asian countries. It utilizes the Empirical Bayesian methodology which …

Recent developments in empirical likelihood (EL) methods are reviewed. First, to put the
method in perspective, two interpretations of empirical likelihood are presented, one as a …

Sovereign credit ratings are becoming increasingly important both within a financial
regulatory context and as a necessary prerequisite for the development of emerging capital …

A literature search shows that robust regression techniques are rarely used in applied
econometrics. We present a technique based on Rousseeuw and Van Zomeren [Journal of …

Strong academic and commercial interest in image compression has resulted in a number of
sophisticated compression techniques. Some of these techniques have evolved into …

3D surface roughness measurement is still a less mature procedure than its 2D version. The
size of the evaluation area is not as standardized as the measurement length in the 2D …