Commentary on the Makridakis Time Series Competition (M-Competition)

Time series prediction competition: The CATS benchmark

This paper presents the CATS Benchmark and the results of the competition organised during the IJCNN’04 conference in Budapest. Twenty-four papers and predictions have been submitted and seventeen have been selected. The goal of the competition was the prediction of 100 missing values divided into five groups of twenty consecutive values.

Commentary: Winning a competition predicts dishonest behavior

Time-Varying Competition

N models typically suggest that prices rise in periods of high demand and cost. However, in many markets, prices fall when demand or costs rise. This inconsistency occurs because the normative models assume that competitive intensity does not change with demand and cost conditions over time. We therefore introduce the notion of time-varying competition by suggesting that it is important not onl...

Outsourcing through Three-dimensional Competition

In this paper, we study an outsourced supply chain consisting of one buyer and two suppliers in which the buyer outsources manufacturing of a physical product to two competing suppliers. The suppliers compete for the buyers' demands share, and the buyer allocates the demands to the competing suppliers based on three-dimensional allocation functions. We consider two certain types of allocation f...

The relationship between competition law and capital market in Iran

stock market is run by special regulations. accordingly, analyzing the issues about the relation between the competition law and capital market such as stock market officials and their boundaries in the context of setting, controlling and  enforcing rules, the generality or specificity of such rules, the controllability of stock market in comparison to the general competition rules and the stat...