general questions concerning the regional and global waxing and waning of domestic regime types. Evolution's claims about the … co-evolution and niche construction are crucial: an agent may modify its environment such that one or more traits of that … agent enjoy a greater reproductive advantage. Agency, then, may be not an escape from evolution but a participation in co-evolution …

general questions concerning the regional and global waxing and waning of domestic regime types. Evolution's claims about the … co-evolution and niche construction are crucial: an agent may modify its environment such that one or more traits of that … agent enjoy a greater reproductive advantage. Agency, then, may be not an escape from evolution but a participation in co-evolution …

bonds) and analyze their multi-scaling properties by estimating the parameters of a Markov-switching multifractal model (MSM … general, the Lognormal MSM models generate ?apparent? long memory in good agreement with empirical scaling provided one uses …

interest rates, and we analyze their multi-scaling properties by estimating a simple specification of the Markov- switching … and compare the scaling exponents H(q) (for q = 1; 2) for both empirical data and simulated data of the estimated MSM … scaling laws. …

fluctuations in electricity markets are additive in nature. We do this by exploiting a scaling relationship between price level and …

/P scaling). In the second part of the paper, it is shown that a linear supply function with stochastic intercept and … constant slope suffices to explain the 1/P scaling. Furthermore, this model allows to decompose price fluctuations in an …

) and 1.5; (ii) the volatility of growth rates is decreasing with respect to size, with a scaling exponent varying over time …, but always between -0.20 and -0.10. Preliminary analyses on more homogeneous groups cast doubts on the evidence of scaling …

multiattribute valuation methods. Researchers have proposed using best-worst scaling (BWS) methods which seek to extract information …

scales, from which we determined spatially-dependent (i.e., site specific) scaling factors for the mean and variance of crop …

scaling of variables, hierarchical organization, handling rank-based variables, relief tables, survey simulation techniques …