PhD student Kristina Birch is working with, among others, her advisor Tue Tjur and Jørgen Kai Olsen, Department of Marketing, in order to develop and test different statistical models to analyse marketing data. Of special interest is measuring the effect of advertising.

Gorm Gabrielsen and Tore Kristensen, CBS, are participating in the Sino-European Design Management Network supported by the EU under the Asia-Link programme.

Gorm Gabrielsen has participated in a project entitled "The Danish Preference for Pork and the Possibility of Predicting Preference Based on Objective Measurements" in cooperation with the Danish Meat Research Institute and The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Denmark, supported by the Directorate for Food, Fisheries and Agri Business.

Gorm Gabrielsen, Morten Ejrnæs and Per Nørrung have completed a project entitled "Social Buoyancy - Social Inheritance" with the publication of an anthology of the same name by Academic Press (Akademisk Forlag). The project also received support from the Danish Research Agency.

Christian Haxholdt is working with Erik Larsen, City University, London, and Ann van Ackere, HEC, Lausanne, on the application of dynamic and stochastic systems, including queuing theory.

Christian Haxholdt is working with Malene Haxholdt, SAS Institute, on techniques in relation to sensitivity and uncertainty analyses.

Dorte Kronborg is working with, among others, Jens Leth, Copenhagen University, Institute of Economics, with applications for DEA and MEA within, for example, the area of health economics.

Dorte Kronborg is working with Steen Thomsen, Department of International Economics and Management at CBS (IEM), on a comparative study of the survival rate for Danish-owned companies and foreign-owned companies.

Hans Kurt Kvist and Dorte Kronborg are working with statistical methods to analyse efficiency measurements.

Jens Overø and Eric Bentzen, Department of Operations Management at CBS (OM), are investigating to what extent the size of a company can be used as a leading indicator for stock market returns.

Jens Overø and Eric Bentzen (OM) are also investigating the suitability of different models for describing the volatility of different stock markets.

Tue Tjur is working on a study of the mathematical and economic foundations for portfolio theory, which is related to von Neumann-Morgenstern utility theory.