For ranking incomparable prospects, a ‘Utopia Index' measuring the proximity to a lower envelope of integrated distribution functions is proposed. The analysis generalizes the existing Almost Stochastic Dominance concept from pairwise comparison to a joint analysis of an arbitrary number of...

This paper studies the limit theory of the quantilogram and cross-quantilogram under long memory. We establish the sub-root-n central limit theorems for quantilograms that depend on nuisance parameters. A moving block bootstrap (MBB) procedure is proposed and its consistency is proved, thereby...

This paper develops methodology for nonparametric estimation of a polarization measure due to Anderson (2004) and Anderson, Ge, and Leo (2006) based on kernel estimation techniques. We give the asymptotic distribution theory of our estimator, which in some cases is nonstandard due to a boundary...

In this paper, we estimate the own- and cross-price elasticities and income elasticity of various fixed and mobile telephone services using monthly time series data. We estimate expenditure share of various telecommunications services such as local, toll, LM (Land to Mobile), Mobile Voice and...

This paper considers the cross-quantilogram, which measures the quantile dependence between time series. We apply it to test the hypothesis that one time series has no directional predictability to another time series. We establish the asymptotic distribution of the cross quantilogram and the...