More and more data are observed in form of curves. Numerous applications in finance, neuroeconomics, demographics and also weather and climate analysis make it necessary to extract common patterns and prompt joint modelling of individual curve variation. Focus of such joint variation analysis...

The aim of this study is to investigate the impacts of corruption on government revenues. It is mainly assumed that corruption decreases government revenues through lowering the tax revenues. We develop hypotheses that high corruption is associated low GBR, TR, and ITR, but not with ITR. In...

The Interval-Valued Least Square Solutions of Interval-Valued Cooperative Games -- Satisfactory Interval-Valued Cores of Interval-Valued Cooperative Games -- Several Interval-Valued Solutions of Interval-Valued Cooperative Games and Simplified Methods.

I employ MM-estimation to investigate the external validity of the declining matching between concurrent revenues and expenses found in Srivastava (2014). Srivastava (2014) finds lower matching for successive listing cohorts. However, the low matching values in that study indicate the potential...