This paper examines congressional spending preferences over time by party and chamber. The data employed is the annual vote index compiled by the National Taxpayers Union for 1979-2002. NTU scores are presented with and without adjusting for interchamber and intertemporal movements of the policy...

In estimation of a matrix of regression coefficients in a multivariate linear regression model, this paper shows that minimax and shrinkage estimators under a normal distribution remain robust under an elliptically contoured distribution. The robustness of the improvement is established for both...