The purpose of this paper is to briefly discuss some important current questions and problems related to the use of scoring rules (SRs) both in connection with the actual assessment of probabilities and with the evaluation of probability forecasts and probability assessors. With regard to the...

Like Japan, the countries of Scandinavia went through big macroeconomics crises brought on by structural flaws. The difference is that their recoveries came more quickly and have been far more robust. Once again, the Scandinavian economies are treated as models. We argue that three factors shed...