The main aim of this monograph is to provide a detailed analysis of poverty and deprivation in Slovakia through the lens of income poverty, subjective poverty, relative material deprivation and asset poverty. This monograph is divided into three parts. The goal of the first part is to provide an...

Functional Signal plus Noise (FSN) time series models are introduced for the econometric analysis of the dynamics of a large cross-section of prices in which contemporaneous observations are functionally related. A semiparametric FSN model is developed in which a smooth, cubic spline signal...