This paper combines the idea of preliminary test and ridge regression methodology, when it is suspected that the regression coefficients may be restricted to a subspace. The preliminary test ridge regression estimators (PTRRE) based on the Wald (W), Likelihood Ratio (LR) and Lagrangian...

We prove a functional limit theorem for the rescaled occupation time fluctuations of a (d, , )- branching particle system (particles moving in Rd according to a symmetric -stable L´evy process, branching law in the domain of attraction of a (1 + )-stable law, 0 < < 1, uniform Poisson initial state) in the case of intermediate dimensions, / < d < (1 + )/. The limit is a process of the form K, where K is a constant, is the Lebesgue measure on Rd, and = (t)t0 is a (1+)-stable process which has long range dependence. There are two long range dependence regimes, one for all > d/(d + ), which coincides with...</<>

We study a long-range dependence Gaussian process which we call “sub-fractional Brownian motion” (sub-fBm), because it is intermediate between Brownian motion (Bm) and fractional Brownian motion (fBm) in the sense that it has properties analogous to those of fBm, but the increments on...

In this paper we generalize Yu’s strong invariance principle for associated sequences to the multi-parameter case, under the assumption that the covariance coefficient u(n) decays exponentially as n - (infinity symbol). The main tools will be the Berkes-Morrow multi-parameter blocking...

This paper proposes to revisit both the CAPM and the three-factor model of Fama and French (1993) in presence of errors in the variables. To reduce the bias induced by measurement and specification errors, we transpose to the cost of equity an estimator based on cumulants of order three and four...

This paper proposes new Hausman-based estimators lying on cumulants optimal instruments. Using these new generated strong instruments in a GMM setting, we obtain new GMM estimators which we call GMM-C and its homologue, the GMM-hm. This procedure improves the method of moments for identifying...

We establish a mathematical framework that formally validates the two-phase “superpopulation viewpoint” proposed by Hartley and Sielken (1975), by defining a product probability space which includes both the design space and the model space. We develop a general methodology that combines...

In this paper, we use the Markov chain censoring technique to study infinite state Markov chains whose transition matrices possess block-repeating entries. We demonstrate that a number of important probabilistic measures are invariant under censoring. Informally speaking, these measures involve...

In the context of simulating the transport of a chemical or bacterial contaminant through a moving sheet of water, we extend a well established method of approximating reaction-diffusion equations with Markov chains by allowing convection, certain Poisson measure driving sources and a larger...