Originally, behavioral law and economics was an exercise in exploring the implications of key findings from behavioral economics (and psychology) for the analysis and reform of legal institutions. Yet as the new discipline matures, it increasingly replaces foreign evidence by fresh evidence, directly targeted to the legal research question. This chapter surveys the key methods: field evidence, ...

This study examines the relationship between the life insurance and economic growth in India. The total life insurance premium (TLIP), and total life insurance investment (TLII), are used as proxy for life insurance and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is used for the economic growth. The data has been compiled from the Handbook on Indian Insurance Statistics, IRDA annual reports and economic surve...

The aim of this study is to develop a bias-correction method for realized variance (RV) estimation, where the equilibrium price process is contaminated with market microstructure noise, such as bid-ask bounces and price changes discreteness. Though RV constitutes the simplest estimator of daily integrated variance, it remains strongly biased and many estimators proposed in previous studies requ...

We construct a Kolmogorov-Smirnov test for the null hypothesis that the average treatment effect is non-negative conditional on all possible values of the covariates. The null hypothesis of our interest can be characterized as a conditional moment inequality under the unconfoundedness assumption, and we employ the instrumental variable method to convert the conditional moment inequality into un...

We present the results of MAXI monitoring and two NuSTAR observations recently discovered faint X-ray transient J1848-015. Analysis light-curve shows that source underwent a rapid flux increase beginning on 2020 December 20, followed by decrease in after only $\sim5$ days. reveal transitioned from bright soft state with unabsorbed, bolometric ($0.1$-$100$ keV) $F=6.9 \pm 0.1 \times 10^{-10}\,\m...

MRC Group, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Museum Avenue Cardiff CF10 3AX, Wales, UK. Acute pancreatitis is generally initiated by premature trypsinogen activation in pancreatic acinar cells mediated by excessive intracellular calcium release from internal stores. One of the major causes of acute pancreatitis is excessive alcohol intake, but the molecular mechanism of this severe inf...

The “clear-sky insolation discrepancy” surfaced a few years ago: several well-regarded theoretical simulations (sound radiative transfer codes and carefully measured inputs for them) produced values for clear-sky shortwave (SW) insolation that exceeded measurements from 20 to 30 Wm. Now, by both carefully screening (Long-Ackerman) the radiometer observations and including the record of the newl...

Skeletal injuries in the emergency: mistakes and overlooking G. Baumgartner*, S. Pelle, D. Longo, M. Almberger, P. Braidotti, E. Sacco UOD Ortopedia d’Urgenza, Policlinico Umberto I (Rome, IT); Dipartimento Scienze Anatomiche Istologiche Medico-Legali e dell’Apparato Locomotore, Università degli Studi di Roma ‘‘La Sapienza’’ (Rome, IT); UOC Radiologia Generale e d’Urgenza, Policlinico Umberto I...

We propose a method for approximating integrated likelihoods in finite mixture models. We formulate the model in terms of the unobserved group memberships, z, and make them the variables of integration. The integral is then evaluated using importance sampling over the z. We propose an adaptive importance sampling function which is itself a mixture, with two types of component distributions, one...

The high dislocation density (ρd) in Fe-C and/or Fe-N martensite is known to be one of the main causes its overall yield strength. Experiments indicate that and, therefore, strength low and medium C steels, follows a well defined behavior with respect background concentration (co). In present work, we introduce model based on finding after γ→α′ sufficiently accommodate/trap most available inter...