The authors compare changes in gender roles and women's empowerment in China, India, and the Republic of Korea. Around 1950, these newly formed states were largely poor and agrarian, with common cultural factors that placed similar severe constraints on women's autonomy. They adopted very...

Summary We consider a non-parametric regression model with long-range dependent innovations, in which the regression function may have a discontinuity at an unknown point. We propose a method to estimate the unknown time of change. The rate of consistency and limit distribution of the...

Abstract In this paper we investigate the asymptotic properties of the test statistics for detecting change-points in the mean of a set of multivariate long-range dependent observations. The limit theorems of weighted test statistics and weighted L p -functionals of tests are developed. The...

Summary In this paper we study the integer-valued autoregressive model, which belongs to the class of thinning models with count data.We mainly focus on the random coefficient integer-valued autoregressive (RCINAR) model and propose a conditional least absolute deviation (CL 1 ) method to...

Purpose – The demand for oil in agricultural production increases continuously with the world oil price soaring, reflecting a rigid growth characteristic, but there are no clear reasons for this. The purpose of this paper is to assess the essential reasons of this issue in theoretical and...

This paper examines the integration and causality of interdependencies among six major East Asian stock exchanges, while also considering their interactions with the USA before and during the 2007–2009 global financial crisis. The data reveal that the global financial crisis has strengthened...