This paper presents theoretical extensions and laboratory tests of the Hoffman and Libecap (1994) model of individual firm incentives to form agricultural marketing pools. The key incentives are lower variance in output prices and economies in scale in marketing. This paper extends the model by...

A workbench for knowledge acquisition and data analysis is presented and its use for the classification of business cycles is investigated. Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) allows to model relations between intervals, e.g. time or value intervals. Moreover, the user of the workbench is...