"Wie planen die deutschen Unternehmer?" Dieser Frage ist das ifo-Institut schon 1965 einmal nachgegangen. Während damals erst 37% der Industrieunternehmen Gesamtpläne erstellten, waren es nach den neuen Umfrageergebnissen im Jahre 1989 fast 60%. Der Anteil der Unternehmen, die sich auf...

The purpose of the paper is to model the process of rule generation by firms that must allocate their resources between physical assets, training, and R&D, and to study the microeconomic performances as well as the aggregate outcomes. The framework is a complete micro-macroeconomic...

Economic modeling of financial markets attempts to model highly complex systems in which expectations can be among the dominant driving forces. It is necessary, then, to focus on how agents form expectations. We believe that they look for patterns, hypothesize, try, make mistakes, learn and...

Advocates of the case method in accounting education have provided strong arguments in favour of this classroom approach. However, a primary objection has been unanswered. Cases generate 'canned' solutions that, when passed between students, jeopardize the accountability of individual efforts...

Rule induction is a paradigm of machine learning that governs how knowledge is acquired from experience. This paradigm not only classifies existing data into logical sets, but also expresses them by 'if-then' rules. Rule induction can be applied to the experience-oriented construction industry....

Artificial neural networks, which simulate neuronal systems of the brain, are useful methods that have attracted the attention of researchers in many disciplinary areas. They have many advantages over traditional methods in situations where the input-output relationship of the system under study...