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:

and, in particular