An evolutionary model of the product life cycle is applied to derive the experience curve and the market size of (expensive) durable goods. The experience (learning) curve suggests that the real costs per unit decrease with an increasing cumulative output (Henderson's law). Based on the idea...

The model presented here derives the product life cycle of durable goods. It is based on the idea that the purchase process consists of first purchase and repurchase. First purchase is determined by the market penetration process (diffusion process), while repurchase is the sum of replacement...

Presented is an evolutionary model of consumer non-durable markets, which is an extension of a previously published paper on consumer durables. The model suggests that the repurchase process is governed by preferential growth. Applying statistical methods it can be shown that in a competitive...

This study sheds new light on the question of whether or not sentiment surveys, and the expectations derived from them, are relevant to forecasting economic growth and stock returns, and whether they contain information that is orthogonal to macroeconomic and financial data. I examine 16...

La revue de la littirature sur l'analyse multicrithre montre l'existence d'une panoplie de procidures d'agrigation multicrithre (PAMC) basies sur des hypothhses, des primisses et des perspectives ipistimologiques diffirentes. De plus, il est itabli que ces PAMC ne sont pas applicables a toutes...

This work is focused on identifying a circular pull production control system (PPCS) and make emphasis on the presence of a stability attribute. It is an introductory paper to an extended study of macroeconomic financial stability in a physically open but systemic closed system. Previous work...

As the structure of consumer preferences plays a crucial role in the analysis of differentiated product markets, estimation of demand systems is a sensitive task. This paper contributes to this project in two ways. First, we develop a method to deal with the simultaneous choice of an equipment...

The objective of the thesis is to show through an empirical work how alpha drivers can be used tactically with beta drivers to provide solid out-performance compared to a chosen benchmark. Given the fact that financial theory and empirical research cast doubt on the alpha generating process...

This paper examines the issue of the fractional dynamics in Irish stock returns. The finding of evidence of fractional dynamics indicates that a long memory process is operational in the series. The paper looks for these dynamics using the Fractional Differencing Model of Geweke and Porter-Hudak...

New insights about the connections between stock market volatility and returns, the pricing of long-run claims, or return predictability have recently revived interest in consumption-based equilibrium asset pricing. The recursive utility model is prominently used in these contexts to determine...