) claims to follow and expresses some serious doubt that econometrics in particular can make economics a hard science …

only limited success in the US as a tool for doing empirical macroeconomics, where what might be called a ?theory comes … such research methods. The US ?theory comes first? approach fits much better with the journal publication metric. …

This paper presents the software framework JStatCom which is geared towards the development of rich GUI clients for … them with the Java world. A reference application for JStatCom is the econometric software package JMulTi, which will …

computable equilibrium models, econometrics, and global commodity chain analysis. Accounting of flows includes different physical …

Measurement forms the substance of econometrics. This chapter outlines the history of econometrics from a measurement … perspective - how have measurement errors been dealt with and how, from a methodological standpoint, did econometrics evolve so as … to represent theory more adequately in relation to data? The evolution is organized in terms of four phases: 'theory and …

Software is a good with very special economic characteristics. Taking a general definition of software as its starting … and cost structure, the demand, the contestability of software-markets, and the allocative efficiency. In this context it … appears to be reasonable to subsume the various characteristics under the following generic terms: software as a means of data …

In this study we compared seven commercial Software packages for project management. Employing multi attribute value … theory, the comparison is based on a sound decision-theoretic framework. Additionally, we included a comprehensive assessment …