The following research is guided by the hypothesis that products chosen on a shopping trip in a supermarket can indicate the preference interdependenciesbetween different products or brands. The bundle chosen on the trip can be regarded as the result of a global utility function. More...

The objective of this paper is to implement a prototype of a currency crisis modelas part of an early warning system framework for Uganda. The financial systemsof developing countries like Uganda are especially vulnerable and therefore robustinstruments to predict crises are needed. Our model is...

Pan-Asianism in Japanese history has not received much scholarly attention so far. Indeed, as some scholars have pointed out (Beasley 1987a), it is questionable whether the notion of an ideology that only existed as a loose set of ideas and, moreover, had its foundations in European concepts,...

Frühwarn- bzw. Frühaufklärungs- oder Prognosesysteme, zielen speziell darauf ab, Entwicklungen oder Ereignisse in der Zukunft früh wie möglich zu erkennen um damit adäquate Reaktionsmaßnahmen einleiten zu können.(...)