Small area estimation techniques are becoming more and more important for the production of official data. Since 2002 ISTAT has applied small area estimation methods to disseminate estimates of employment and unemployment rates for local labour market areas; furthermore several experimental...

Empirical results in marketing research are often derived from linear additive models estimated on cross-sectional data. An underlying assumption of these model specifications is that each exogenous variable contributes an additive effect to the endogenous variable. Measuring these additive...