In this paper we present an assessment of the EU’s regional policy for the case of an objective 1 Spanish region, Castilla-La Mancha, traditionally backward but showing in last years a special dynamism. Starting from the executed data for the period 1989-1999 and those programmed for...

The evolution of financial data shows a high degree of volatility of the series, coupled with increasing difficulties of forecasting the shorter is the time horizon, when using standard (i.e., based on linear models) forecasting methods. Some alternative forecasting methods for non-linear time...