Various versions of the wild bootstrap are studied as applied to regression models with heteroskedastic errors. It is shown that some versions can be qualified as 'tamed', in the sense that the statistic bootstrapped is asymptotically independent of the distribution of the wild bootstrap DGP....

A random sample drawn from a population would appear to offer an ideal opportunity to use the bootstrap in order to perform accurate inference, since the observations of the sample are IID. In this paper, Monte Carlo results suggest that bootstrapping a commonly used index of inequality leads to...

It is known that Efron's nonparametric bootstrap of the mean of random variables with common distribution in the domain of attraction of the stable laws is not consistent, in the sense that the limiting distribution of the bootstrap mean is not the same as the limiting distribution of the mean...

This paper examines the properties of stationary-state general equilibrium in a monocentric city with durable housing. On the demand side, identical households choose location, housing quality and quantity (floor area), and other goods. On the supply side, developers choose the structural...

We develop a new form of the information matrix test for a wide variety of statistical models, and present full details for the special case of univariate nonlinear regression models. Chesher (1984) showed that the implicit alternative of the information matrix test is a model with random...

Although attention has been given to obtaining reliable standard errors for the plug-in estimator of the Gini index, all standard errors suggested until now are either complicated or quite unreliable. An approximation is derived for the estimator by which it is expressed as a sum of IID random...

In a continuous-time model of capital accumulation, there are convexity or concavity conditions on benefit and cost functions which ensure that dynamical necessary conditions for optimality are also sufficient. Non-convexities can occur in various ways: the Hamiltonian can fail to be concave...

This paper investigates a representative landlord's profit-maximization problem in a stationary environment. The landlord must decide on the quality of his housing units at the time of construction, maintenance expenditure over the life of the building, and the time of demolition. The focus is...

This paper considers the problem of statistical inference with estimated Lorenz curves and income shares. The asymptotic distribution of a vector of Lorenz curve ordinates corresponding to a set of cdf abscissa values is shown to be normal with a variance-covariance structure that depends only...

The issue of the non-invariance of the Wald test under nonlinear reparametrisations of the restrictions under test is studied from a differential geometric viewpoint. Quantities that can be defined in purely geometrical terms are by construction invariant under reparametrisation, and various...