Livestock price reporting mandated by theUSDA was designed to increase availableprice data with the intent of providing producers with information to facilitate price discovery. Has the program been effective at accomplishing this goal? This study determined how cattle feeders, a primary target...

This paper uses monthly data from eleven local governments to model residential water demand in Queensland, Australia from 1994 to 2004. In the sample, residential consumption is charged using a variety of structures including fixed charges without allowance, fixed charges with allowance and...

In the context of statistics for random processes, we prove a law of large numbers and a functional central limit theorem for multivariate Hawkes processes observed over a time interval [0,T] when T→∞. We further exhibit the asymptotic behaviour of the covariation of the increments of the...

We observe (Yt) at times i/n, i=0,...,n, in the parametric stochastic volatility modeldYt=[Phi]([theta],WtH) dWt,where (Wt) is a Brownian motion, independent of the fractional Brownian motion (WtH) with Hurst parameter . The sample size n increases not because of a longer observation period, but...