The phenomenon of international production sharing, in which production is broken up into smaller bits of tasks and locate them in separate places, has been widely observed globally in the last several decades. While it has been getting a lot of attention, it is still not clear how to define and...

There is a general agreement that (a) climate change is one of the most serious environmental problems, that (b) the analysis of climate change is confronted with a large degree of uncertainty and (c) that these uncertainties need to be taken into account to arrive at meaningful policy...

In this paper data-driven algorithms for fitting SEMIFAR models (Beran, 1999) are proposed. The algorithms combine the data-driven estimation of the nonparametric trend and maximum likelihood estimation of the parameters. Convergence and asymptotic properties of the proposed algorithms are...