This paper tests an intertemporal consumption-leisure model with non-expected utility. There is evidence to reject the commonly used expected-utility specification and to accept the non-expected utility one as the model's restrictions are not rejected by the data

Calculation of vegetation indices, especially Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), has become one of the most successful, popular and traditional attempts in biogeographical research methods, because NDVI has certain advantages over other vegetation indices or band combinations. The...

We argue that gamma discounting (Weitzman, 2001) can be understood as a veridical approach to combining experts' forecasts, in which experts are treated as either right or wrong and are weighted equally in pursuit of the 'true' forecast. More appropriate is the optimal-seeking approach in which...

The debate on the risks and benefits of the globalisation of international capital markets has focused on the volume and the volatility of the main capital flows ? foreign direct investment (FDI), portfolio investment, and foreign bank lending. Financial transfers in the form of worker...

The present value model of the current account has been very popular, as it provides an optimal benchmark to which actual current account series have often been compared. We show why persistence in observed current account data makes the estimated optimal series very sensitive to small-sample...

In den unterschiedlichsten Teilgebieten der Wirtschaftswissenschaften erfreuen sich statistische Methoden aufgrund der stetig steigenden Komplexität der Fragestellungen immer grösserer Beliebtheit. In der Disziplin des quantitativen Marketings können hochentwickelte Methoden den nötigen...