Many asset prices, including exchange rates, exhibit periods of stability punctuated by infrequent, substantial, often one-sided adjustments. Statistically, this generates empirical distributions of exchange rate changes that exhibit high peaks, long tails, and skewness. This paper introduces a...

Surveys of wilderness users in four selected wilderness areas and proposed wilderness areas in Utah indicated that expenditures by these visitors, while similar to other outdoor recreation participants, are not sufficiently large to significantly influence the local county economies. The...

Using an innovative GMGARCH-MSKST model that allows for asymmetric generalized dynamic conditional correlation, this paper analyzes return and volatility interactions among spot, non-deliverable forward (NDF) and deliverable forward (DF) exchange rate markets for Korea and Taiwan. With the...

Rural development has received renewed attention, particularly in the West, where there are opportunities for enhancing tourism in communities once reliant on extractive resources. The historical focus of rural development has been on economic growth, with little concern about the sustainability...

A number of flexible distributions (generalized beta of the second kind, inverse hyperbolic sine (IHS), <InlineEquation ID="IEq1"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$$g$$</EquationSource> <EquationSource Format="MATHML"> <math xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <mi>g</mi> </math> </EquationSource> </InlineEquation>-and-<InlineEquation ID="IEq2"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$$h$$</EquationSource> <EquationSource Format="MATHML"> <math xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <mi>h</mi> </math> </EquationSource> </InlineEquation>, Weibull, Burr-3, Burr-12, generalized gamma, reciprocal gamma) are examined in the setting of option-pricing to explore potential improvements over the...</equationsource></equationsource></inlineequation></equationsource></equationsource></inlineequation>

Several valuable data sources, including the census and National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, include data measured using interval responses. Many empirical studies attempt estimation by assuming the data correspond to the interval midpoints and then use OLS or maximum likelihood assuming...