Using a panel of 439 German regions we evaluate and compare the performance of various Neural Network (NN) models as forecasting tools for regional employment growth. Because of relevant differences in data availability between the former East and West Germany, NN models are computed separately...

The objective in this paperis to analyse the effect of a reduction in working time duration in a trade union model where Capital Operating Time occurs.

In this paper we study a stochastic learning model for 2, 2 normal form games that are played repeatedly. The main emphasis is put on the emergence of cycles. We assume that the players have neither information about the payoff matrix of their opponent nor about their own. At every round each...