acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

This workshop is included in the research activity of the national research project
"Nonlinear Dynamics and Stochastic Models in Economics and Finance''
financed in 1998 by the Italian Ministry for Research, M.U.R.S.T., for the years 1999-2000.

The research group is coordinated by FRANCO GORI
and includes the following local research units:

UNIVERSITY	DEPARTMENT	LOCAL COORDINATOR
Firenze	"Matematica per le Decisioni" (DIMAD)	Franco Gori
Macerata	Istituzioni Economiche e Finanziarie	Maurizio Ciaschini
Milano, Univ. Cattolica	Econometria e Matematica per le Decisioni Economiche	Gerd Hellmut Weinrich
Parma	Istituto di Matematica "E. Levi"	Laura Gardini
Torino	Statistica e Matematica Applicata alle Scienze Umane "De Castro"	Luigi Montrucchio
Urbino	Istituto di Scienze Economiche	Gian-Italo Bischi

For the organization of the workshop we gratefully acknowledge:

the University of Urbino
the "Istituto di Scienze Economiche"
the Regional Agency for University Studies (ERSU)
the bank "Banca delle Marche"
the secretaries Alessandra Grossi and Antonella Rosa for their useful collaboration
the painter Sanzio Carloni for the background image of the cover

and, in particular

the "Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Pesaro" for financial support