one of the most important issues which has long been considered as a shortfall in the civil procedure code (cpc) is the jurisdiction of the arbitral tribunal to issue interim orders. currently, neither the court nor the arbitral tribunal can freely grant the interim measure so that the tribunals and the court hardly accept the plea for granting the interim measure. the reason lies in the shortf...

We propose a simple method of testing for parameter constancy in regression models that allow for coe¢ cients that vary smoothly over time. The model is related to Bierens and Martins (2009) but in our case we consider stationary processes. The procedure is shown to have good statistical properties. We revisited Hansen’s (2001) study of structural breaks in a AR(1) model of labor productivity i...