Time sharing computer configurations have introduced a new dimension in applying statistical and mathematical models to sequential decision problems. When the outcome of one step in the process influences subsequent ...

Long-term predictions are indispensable for planning and strategy. Yet little is known about their value, their limitations or the most appropriate way of making and using them. This paper examines these issues and proposes ...

The method of principal component is used in this paper to analyse the interrelationship among the world's major stock exchanges. The major finding is that the interrelationship is unstable over time. This finding proves ...

Forecasts are crucial for practically all economic and business decisions. However, there is a mounting body of empirical evidence showing that accurate forecasting in the economic and business world is usually not possible. ...

In this study the uses and gratifications obtained from Mainstream News sites and Social Media when the users read online news is explored. A comparative work is done between the two in order to examine the differences on ...

The formal practice of forecasting and planning (F&P) has risen to prominence within a few decades and now receives considerable attention from both academics and practitioners. This paper explicitly recognizes the nature ...

The Notes section of the international Journal of Forecasting contains commentary on the theory and practice of forecasting in the form of communications to the journal such as research notes, teaching tips, practitioners’ ...

This paper surveys time-series methods developed and used in the fields of statistics, engineering, operation research and economics. It will describe each of the major methods now in existence and synthesize them into an ...

This paper considers two problems of interpreting forecasting competition error statistics. The first problem is concerned with the importance of linking the error measure (loss function) used in evaluating a forecasting ...

How successful have economists and other business forecasters been in predicting recessions? This question is of considerable practical value since the level of economic activity greatly influences budgets and other plans ...

Η Ευρωπαϊκή κρίση είναι η καλύτερη περίπτωση για να μελετήσουμε τόσο τις ευπάθειες του πλαισίου της οικονομικής διακυβέρνησης στην Ευρώπη, όσο και την ίδια την διαδικασία της Ευρωπαϊκής ολοκλήρωσης. Αυτό συμβαίνει για ...

Ητρέχουσα οικονομική κρίση που βιώνει η χώρα ανέδειξε πέρα από τις δομικές αδυναμίες της ελληνικής οικονομίας και τις αδυναμίες της ευρωπαϊκής οικονομικής διακυβέρνησης. Είναι πλέον φανερό ότι πολλές ευρωπαϊκές χώρες και ...

The Greek crisis should not be considered an unexpected phenomenon. On the contrary, it has been caused by, among other things, rushed political decisions, incomplete EU institutions of governance and hidden political and ...

The financial and economic crisis that began in 2007 is a clear example of how is globalisation connected to the instability of global financial markets. Our target is not to analyze the immediate and direct contributing ...

Economics and finance cannot be separated from the political and social system and the institutions within which they are embedded. This has been stressed by an array of approaches which attempt to disclose the role of ...

The European crisis is the best case study for examining both the vulnerabilities of Europe’s framework for economic governance and the very process of European integration itself. This statement is true for several reasons: ...

Many scholars have tried to comprehend and analyse the root causes of the Greek economic crisis. In the majority of these analyses, a series of economic factors were mainly highlighted as the key to understanding the nature ...

Η Ευρωπαϊκή Κρίση Χρέους (ΕΚΧ), η οποία εμφανίστηκε το 2009 μέσω της ελληνικής οικονομικής κρίσης, είναι η καλύτερη περίπτωση για να μελετήσουμε τόσο τις ευπάθειες του πλαισίου τής Ευρωπαϊκής Οικονομικής Διακυβέρνησης (ΕΟΔ) ...

The last few years, the economic divergences which were observed in macroeconomic performances of the EU's Member States as well as the low rate of their economic adaptation within the EMU, had raised concerns about the ...

Ήδη από τις αρχές της δεκαετίας του 1990, η Ευρωπαϊκή οικονομία παρουσίαζε σοβαρά προβλήματα ανταγωνιστικότητας. Αυτό το γεγονός, έκανε τους ερευνητές να υποστηρίζουν πως η δημιουργία της ΟΝΕ, θα χειροτέρευε τις οικονομικές ...