This paper uses the concepts of Beta-convergence and Sigma-convergence to evaluate empirically the hypothesis of rent and yield convergence in seven European office markets during the period 1982-2009.

This paper provides an estimation and testing framework to assess the presence and extent of slope heterogeneity when the units are a mixture of spurious and/or cointegrating regressions.

We consider a new class of processes, called LG processes, defined as linear combinations ofindependent gamma processes. Their distributional and path-wise properties are explored by following their relation to polynomial and Dirichlet (B-) splines. In particular, it is shown that the density of an LG process can be expressed in terms of Dirichlet (B-) splines, introduced independently by Ignatov and Kaishev (1987, 1988, and 1989) and Karlin et al. (1986).

This paper considers the barriers which effect the funding of university spin outs, by exploring the perceptions of the academic and the venture capitalists, who are the two key participants in the funding process. The investigation therefore differs from previous studies that have concentrated on the "hard" issues, such as the sources of commercial funding and the amount of funds available.