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...

This paper analyses the influence of 13 stylized facts of the German economy on the West German business cycles from 1955 to 1994. The method used in this investigation is Statistical Experimental Design with orthogonal factors. We are looking for all existing Plackett-Burman designs realizable...

Although there are compelling theoretical reasons to believe that unequal political representation in a legislature leads to an unequal distribution of funds, testing such theories empirically is challenging because it is difficult to separate the effects of representation from the effects of...