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Whilst non-linear models are often used for a variety of purposes, one of their prime uses is for forecasting, and it is in terms of their forecasting performance that they are most often judged. However, a casual review of the literature suggests that often the forecasting performance of such models is not particularly good. Some studies find in favour, but equally there are studies in which their added complexity relative to rival linear models does not result in the expected gains in terms of forecast accuracy. Just over a decade ago, in their review of non-linear time series models, De Gooijer and Kumar (1992) concluded that there was no clear evidence in favour of non-linear over linear models in terms of forecast performance, and we suspect that the situation has not changed very much since then. It seems that we have not come very far in the area of non-linear forecast model construction.
We argue that the relatively poor forecasting performance of non-linear models calls for substantive further research in this area, given that one might feel uncomfortable asserting that non-linearities are unimportant in describing economic and financial phenomena. The problem may simply be that our non-linear models are not mimicing reality any better than simpler linear approximations, and in the next section we discuss this and related reasons why a good forecast performance ‘across the board’ may constitute something of a ‘holy grail’ for non-linear models.
This review combines recent findings from the empirical banking literaturewith established insights from studies of banking competition and regulation. Motivated by modern theory of financial intermediation we center our review on the different sources of bank rents. “Sailing this tack” ensures that we don’t replicate the many excellent reviews on financial intermediation that also feature discussions of the various aspects of competition in the banking sector.
We start with a concise overview of the different methodological approaches taken to address competition in general and banking in particular. Our review of the traditional and new empirical methods employed in Industrial Organization (IO) is brief, specifically applied to banking, and mostly illustrative. We first discuss the traditional studies of Structure-Conduct Performance, bank efficiency, and economies of scale and scope. Then we turn to the New Empirical IO approaches taken by Panzar and Rosse (1987), the conjectural variations, structural demand, and other structural models (sunk costs and entry). We highlight the strengths and weaknesses of these different approaches and are naturally drawn to focus on the differences in data requirements and treatment of endogeneity in each method.
Crisis management is the process of organizing response to incidents that seriously threaten people’s lives or the environment. Examples of such incidents include road accidents, fires, etc. These incidents may evolve rapidly and need a quick and efficient response to limit the damages. Crisis management often requires access to sensitive data from many organizations or different administrative domains. For example, responders from different administrative domains may need to know the number of casualties, or the imminent dangers for the surrounding area, andmedical records must be shared to provide care for the victims.
In the rest of this paper, we will indicate the organization where data originates as the data provider and the recipient organization as the data consumer. Sensitive data must be protected according to the security policies of the data provider even after it has been disseminated to users in other organizations or different administrative domains. This usually requires mutual trust between the data provider and consumer. The data provider must ensure that its data will be protected after dissemination, while the data consumer needs to know what data it will be able to access. Organizations form Data Sharing Agreements (DSA) [26] to achieve these goals. A DSA is a signed contract stating each partner’s obligations, which allowsthe partners to seek remedy (e.g. through legal means) for breaches of the contract.Establishment of a DSA allows the data provider to trust data consumers to enforce the agreed policies in their administrative domain.
