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This paper uses Stated Choice (SC) data to forecast the demand for an employee Park and Ride service. Since it is well known that SC data contain sources of variation not present in Revealed Preference (RP) data we pay special attention to the scaling of the SC model. The results show that the...
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This paper is an exercise in applied macroeconomic forecasting. We examine the forecasting power of a vector error … expenditure as suggested by the economic theory. We compare the estimated forecasting values of the endogenous variables to the …, Forecasting, Simulation Analysis, Vector error- correction models JEL Classifications: C15, C32, C53, E0, E6 Working Paper Series …
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For hundred years the future was occupying the persons. The ancient Greeks, the Romans, the Egyptians, the Indians, the Chinese and other great ancient cultures, but also the modern, as the English, Germans and the Americans and with the help of the development of technology and computers they...
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This paper reviews the empirical research on forecasting in marketing. In addition, it presents results from some small …
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made in eight conflict situations. These were difficult forecasting problems; the 32% accuracy of the unaided experts was …
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The following hypotheses about long-range market forecasting were examined: Hl Objective methods provide more accuracy … are more accurate for long range market forecasting than are the major alternatives, expert judgment and extrapolation …
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People are willing to pay heavily for expert advice. Economists are consulted to tell us how the economy will change, stock analysts are paid large salaries to forecast the earnings of various companies, and political experts command large fees to tell our leaders what the future holds. The...
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Individuals and organizations have operated for hundreds of years by planning and forecasting in an intuitive manner … those problems. However, informal planning and forecasting are expensive activities; this raises questions about their … superiority over informal planning and forecasting. Furthermore, critics of the formal approach claim that it introduces rigidity …
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Sophisticated extrapolation techniques have had a negligible payoff for accuracy in forecasting. As a result, major …
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There exists a large number of quantitative extrapolative forecasting methods which may be applied in research work or … implemented in an organizational setting. For instance, the lead article of this issue of the Journal of Forecasting compares the … ability to forecast the future of over twenty univariate forecasting methods. Forecasting researchers in various academic …
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