A previous study, which examined oligopolists as responding simply to past prices of their strategic rivals, used data from a mature market with stable rules of thumb (mappings from past actions or states of the market to present prices) for the oligopolists' behaviour, whether purposefully...

An evolutionary Trade Network Game (TNG) is proposed for studying the interplay between evolutionary game dynamics and preferential partner selection in various market contexts with distributed adaptive agents. The modular form of the TNG facilitates experimentation with alternative...

In this paper we prove that every linear model with rational expectations can be transformed by means of an one-to-one mapping into another model which has one of the following properties: i) it is degenerated, ii) it is backward, iii) it has a Blanchard-Kahn form. In addition to some simple...

In this paper, we examine techniques for the analytical and numerical solution of statedependent differential-difference equations. Such equations occur in the continuous time modelling of vintage capital growth models, which form a particularly important class of models in modern economic...

We will show by means of an example that, stated this way, this assertion is in general not correct. Therefore, we reconsider in this paper first the conditions under which the finite-planning- horizon linear-quadratic differential game has an open-loop Nash equilibrium solution. We present both...

A model for constructing quadratic, polynomial, and separable objective functions from interviewing experts is considered. The person interviewed is presented a set of incomplete alternatives (vectors of target variables, with one coordinate not being fixed) and is asked to complete these...

Adaptation factors are not properly involved yet in decision making and not measured regularly in economic terms. In the paper we mean under adaptation cost an opportunity cost which one has to bear using a certain inefficient adaptation system compare to the better system. Adaptation cost as a...

Maastricht is only one catchword which emphasizes the fast growing importance of interactions between economic areas. On the other hand synergetics is one catchword which represents the progress in the exploration of complex, nonlinear, dynamic systems. Here, we make use of one evolution in...

In auctions of government treasury securities, each bidder is permitted to enter multiple price-quantity bids. Gordy (1996) finds empirical evidence from Portugal's treasury bill auctions that multiple bidding is used more intensively as the potential for winner's curse increases. That is,...

We propose a tractable simplification of Gold's (1965, 1967) inductive inference model based on neural networks. In this way, we can introduce explicitly institutions in a learning model. In particular, the hidden layer of neural network is shown to perform certain functions-data preprocessing...