Prior studies that examine the application of neural networks in auditing investigate the efficiency of artificial neural networks (ANNs). In the present study, considering the well known disadvantages of artificial neural network, we propose the application of probabilistic neural networks...

The minimization of cost is an important issue in the domain of continuous auditing (CA) research (Pathak, Chaouch amp; Sriram, 2005). This cited study of continuous audit of databases motivated us to work further and provide a general, complete and precise solution. In the present study, we...

Explaining the evolution and maintenance of cooperation among unrelated individuals is one of the fundamental problems in biology and the social sciences. Recent experimental evidence suggests that altruistic punishment is an important mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this...

Regulation fostering Managed Care alternatives in health insurance is spreading. This work reports on an experiment designed to measure the amounts of compensation asked by the Swiss population (in terms of reduced premiums) for Managed-Care type restrictions in the provision of health care. It...

The majority of popular simulated test marketing models (STM) are calibrated against empirical data obtained from the mature markets of North America and Western Europe. Not surprisingly, these models achieve much lower accuracy when directly applied in relatively unexplored emerging markets,...

Time preference is a fundamental component of many economic models and questions of interest. Yet, elicited preferences are frequently questioned on the grounds of potentially confounding elements of the experimental design, such as trust in the experimenter. We report on a time preference...

In this paper, I present my perspective on the interaction between experimental and empirical economics. This is a written version of remarks originally made at a conference on experimental-economics methodology at New York University, where I was asked to discuss two papers, one by John Kagel,...