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...

The asymptotic behavior of the least squares (LS) estimators of the parameters in threshold autoregressive models has been completely studied in the literature. It is well known that in some cases the least absolute deviation (LAD) estimators are superior to the LS-estimators. This paper is...

In this paper we study strong approximations (invariance principles) of the sequential uniform and general Bahadur-Kiefer processes of long-range dependent sequences. We also investigate the strong and weak asymptotic behavior of the sequential Vervaat process, i.e., the integrated sequential...

For a random design regression model with long memory design and long memory errors, we consider the problem of detecting a change point for sharp cusp or jump discontinuity in the regression function. Using the wavelet methods, we obtain estimators for the change point, the jump size and the...

Despite widespread agreement among economists that labor-intensive manufacturing has contributed mightily to rapid development in China and other fast-growing economies, most developing countries have had little success in raising the share of manufacturing in production, employment, or exports....

The GPH-estimator of spatial long memory parameter is investigated for stationary long memory (long range dependent) random fields observed over a regular lattice point set. Under some mild regularity assumptions, the weak consistency of the estimator is obtained. The finite sample performance...

This paper examines the integration and causality of interdependencies among seven major East Asian stock exchanges before, during, and after the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis. For this purpose, we use daily stock market data from July 1, 1992 to June 30, 2003 in local currency as well as US...