Les auteurs etudient dans ce papier le lien entre pente des taux et croissance en Allemagne, aux Etats-Unis et en France. Cette relation est analysee selon deux approches. La premiere, communement mise en oeuvre, consiste a regresser le taux de croissance du PIB pour differents horizons sur le...

This paper studies the implementation of the coupling from the past (CFTP)method of Propp and Wilson (1996) in the set-up of two and three component mixtures with known components. We show that monotonicity structures can be exhibited in both cases, but that CFTP an still be costly for three...

Les auteurs etudient dans ce papier le lien entre pente des taux et croissance en Allemagne, aux Etats-Unis et en France. Cette relation est analysee selon deux approches. La premiere, communement mise en oeuvre, consiste a regresser le taux de croissance du PIB pour differents horizons sur le...

Energy companies with commitments to meet customers' daily electricity demands face the problem of hedging load and price risk. We propose a joint model for load and price dynamics, which is motivated by the goal of facilitating optimal hedging decisions, while also intuitively capturing the key...

Il metodo proposto mira ad analizzare il contesto regionale europeo (UE 15), utilizzando gli indicatori introdotti nel Rapporto di Primavera 2004 e i dati regionali disponibili (Eurostat e OECD, 1999-2003) per evidenziare i migliori risultati e identificare gruppi regionali omogenei rispetto ai...

Gottlob Frege ist einer der größten (der größte?) Wissenschaftler Mecklenburg-Vorpommerns. Als Mathematiker und Philosoph hat er die moderne mathematische Logik begründet, dazu Beiträge zur Mengenlehrer, Axiomatisierung sowie der Sprachphilosophie geleistet. Viele seiner Leistungen haben...

In this article, as part of the symposium on total factor productivity, Erwin Diewert of the University of British Columbia provides a comprehensive discussion of what is needed to develop reliable measures of total factor productivity in terms of output and the different classes of inputs. He...

It is generally acknowledged that the size-class distribution of enterprises in a country is an important characteristic of its economy. The EU countries are increasingly co-operating and adjusting to each other's needs in order to achieve optimal joint output. However, country differences -at...

Knowledge, as intellectual capital, has become the main resource of an organization, and the process of knowledge discovery, acquisition and storage is a very important one. Knowledge discovery can be easily realized through Data Mining, a Machine Learning technique, which allows the discovery...