model we exploit the link between the Asymmetric Laplace Distribution and maximum likelihood estimation for quantile …-variance relationship. Mean Squared Error estimation is discussed. Extensive model-based simulations are used for comparing the proposed …

estimation method used to derive them. Essentially, these methods differ in their treatment of the time-series (time) and the … cross-section (space) variation in the panel. The study shows that conventional panel estimation methods (pooled OLS, fixed … literature to show that the distortion is generally very large. This suggests the use of the CRE model for the panel estimation …

Among a variety of small area estimation methods, one popular approach for the estimation of linear and non …-linear indicators is the empirical best predictor. However, parameter estimation using standard maximum likelihood methods is not … is often the case for income variables. Therefore, this work proposes an estimation method, which enables the estimation …