A number of neural network techniques, namely multi-layer perceptron, k-means algorithm and the self-organizing map are applied to the detection of technical trading patterns within stock markets. We do not find exploitable information content and it is concluded that there are no significant...

This paper examines the texts Jeremy Bentham wrote in 1788 and 1789 for the upcoming meeting of the Estates-General in France, focusing on the arrangement of a representative assembly. Bentham examined the problems of constitutional choice with an economic method, answering the fundamental...

This article aims at showing how Bentham addressed the modern issue of the economic efficiency of the law (as defined by Posner) ; to do that, we focus on Defence of Usury [1787] and the manuscript Sur les prix [1801a] : in 1787, Bentham stated that, in order to increase wealth, the rate of...