The concept of nonparametric smoothing is a central idea in statistics that aims to simultaneously estimate and modes the underlyingstructure. The book considers high dimensional objects, as density functions and regression. The semiparametric modeling technique compromises the two aims,...

We perform a meta-analysis of 110 studies that report simulated global welfare gains from trade liberalization under the WTO Doha Development Agenda (DDA) to test for hidden, author-specific model specification effects. We find that after controlling for other factors that influence simulation...