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Politique de la concurrence : des prix élevés ne justifient pas une réglementation étatique des prix
Friday, May 24, 2013

​Dans le cadre du débat sur la révision de la loi sur les cartels, plusieurs acteurs réclament régulièrement des mesures pour lutter contre l'« îlot de cherté Suisse ». Une analyse économique montre cependant que les prix élevés ne...

Des accords bilatéraux sont bel et bien possibles
Friday, May 24, 2013

​Des voix s'élèvent régulièrement du côté de l'UE pour dire qu'il n'est pas possible de conclure d'autres accords dans le cadre de la voie bilatérale avec la Suisse sans un accord-cadre institutionnel. Cette rhétorique dure contredit le...

Qui e Ora: Marta Cartabia, Interpretare-risolvere
Friday, May 24, 2013

Qui e ora - Quattro verbi per decidere Conferenze promosse dall'Istituto di studi italiani in collaborazione con il Dicastero Giovani ed Eventi della città di Lugano   Marta Cartabia - Interpretare - risolvere 24 maggio 2013 - ore 18:00 ...

Gemischte Kommission 2013 in Belgrad
Friday, May 24, 2013

Seit Langem pflegt die Schweiz freundschaftli­che Beziehun­gen mit Serbi­en. Im Mai fan­den die tra­ditionel­len Ge­spräc­he zwi­schen Regierungs- und Wirt­schaftsvertretern in Belgrad statt. Ziel des Treffens war un­ter an­de­rem,...

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25 May Goodness-of-fit for Generalized Linear Latent Variables Models

Generalized Linear Latent Variables Models (GLLVM) enable the modeling of relationships between manifest and latent variables, where the manifest variables are distributed according to a distribution of the exponential family (e.g. binomial or normal) and to the multinomial distribution (for ordinal manifest variables). These models are widely used in social sciences. To test the appropriateness...

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(2010) - English

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University of Geneva - Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences

25 May High Breakdown Inference in the Mixed Linear Model

Mixed linear models are used to analyze data in many settings. These models have a multivariate normal formulation in most cases. The maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) or the residual MLE (REML) is usually chosen to estimate the parameters. However, the latter are based on the strong assumption of exact multivariate normality. Welsh and Richardson have shown that these estimators are not robust...

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(2006) - English

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University of Geneva - Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences

25 May Modelling Lorenz Curves: robust and semi-parametric issues

Modelling Lorenz curves (LC) for stochastic dominance comparisons is central to the analysis of income distributions. It is conventional to use non-parametric statistics based on empirical income cumulants which are used in the construction of LC and other related second-order dominance criteria. However, although attractive because of its simplicity and its apparent flexibility, this approach...

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(2008) - English

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University of Geneva - Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences

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