For too long design in the retail context has tended to be a superficial adjunct, concerning itself with decoration and colour style. Now it is evolving as a strategic weapon which can help the retailer meet the pressures of competition and improve profitability. In this special feature Bryan...

Semiparametric estimation of the expectations of a general class of dynamic functions is considered. Such expectation functionals that are of interest for dynamic models are one- and multi-period ahead forecasting functions, distribution functions, and covariance matrices. The semiparametric...