This paper is inspired by medical studies in which the same patients with multiple sclerosis are examined at several successive visits (doctor's appointments) and described by fractional anisotropy tract profiles, which can be represented as f unctions. Since the observations for each patient...

In this study, we examine the nexus between oil tail risks and the realized variance of consumer prices in six advanced economies, namely, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Importantly, we estimate the oil tail risks following the Conditional...

The aim of this study is to analyze different forecasting approaches for the variance of future earnings, compare the respective forecast accuracy and test whether the forecasted information are relevant to equity or debt markets. The results, in line with former research, indicate that...