The papers in this special issue of Mathematics and Computers in Simulation cover the following topics: improving judgmental adjustment of model-based forecasts, whether forecast updates are progressive, on a constrained mixture vector autoregressive model, whether all estimators are born equal:...

The paper estimates a parameter that captures congestion in the consumption of general government services provided by Australian state and local governments. From this estimate, the per person cost of general government services is shown to be an increasing function of population size,...