The Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) provides valuable information for the monetary policy and financial stability purposes. The dataset shows, however, inconsistencies with National Account (NtlA) statistics, as the aggregated HFCS micro data do usually not match the...

A comprehensive study of the linkages between demographic and economic variables should not only account for vintage specificity but also incorporate the relevant economic and demographic decisions in a complete optimal control set-up. In this paper, a methodological set-up allowing to reach...

We provide an overview of using genetic programming (GP) to model stock returns. Our models employ GP terminals (model decision variables) that are financial factors identified by experts. We describe the multi-stage training, testing and validation process that we have integrated with GP...

This paper investigates the growth impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in an economy consisting of three sectors: ICT-producing, ICT-using, and non-ICT-using. The ICT progress causes falling prices of the consumption and intermediates produced by the ICT-using sector,...

The genuine savings criterion and the value of population in an economy with endogenous fertility rate / Kenneth J. Arrow, Alain Bensoussan, Qi Feng, and Suresh P. Sethi -- Continuous time overlapping generations models / Hippolyte d'Albis and Emmanuelle Augeraud-Véron -- Modeling technological...

This paper deals with the evolution of the literature on the problem of population and growth from the classical period to the recent literature on endogenous growth and development. The 'problem' concerns two distinct issues: 1. how to explain the observed covariation of the levels and rates of...