The purpose of the paper is to discuss ten things potential users should know about the limits of the Dynamic Conditional Correlation (DCC) representation for estimating and forecasting time-varying conditional correlations. The reasons given for caution about the use of DCC include the following: DCC represents the dynamic conditional covariances of the standardized residuals, and hence does n...

1. Introduction This chapter deals with the vast literature on panel data discrete choice models of consumer demand. The reason this area is so active is that very high quality data is available. Firms like Nielsen and IRI have, for over 30 years, been collecting panel data on households' purchases of consumer goods. This is known as ―scanner data,‖ because it is collected by check-out machine ...

The focus of this study is on the challenges faced by managers in effectively dealing with the new management logic of increasing returns as the information and knowledge intensity of their transformation processes rises. Dealing with these challenges is especially relevant for companies currently making the transition from capital and physical labor intensive transformation processes (old econ...

Advances in computational methods have led, in the world of financial services, to huge databases of client and market information. In the past decade, various computational intelligence (CI) techniques have been applied in mining this data for obtaining knowledge and in-depth information about the clients and the markets. This paper discusses the application of fuzzy clustering in target selec...

Author details Department of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Macquarie University Energy and Environmental Contaminants Research Centre, Sydney, NSW, Australia. Centre for Emotional Health, Department of Psychology, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia. Macquarie Law School, Faculty of Arts, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia. Department of Marketin...

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Hideo YAMANAKA Professor Department of Civil and Environment Engineering University of Tokushima 2-1, Minami-Josan-Jima, Tokushima, 770-8506 Japan Fax: +81-88-656-7579 E-mail: [email protected] Tetsuo MITANI Associate Professor Department of Economics and Information University of Marketing and Distribution Sciences 3-1 Gakuen-Nishi-Machi, Nishi-Ku, Kobe 651-2188, Japan Fax:+81-78-7...