... the International Joint Conferenceon Neural Networks (IJCNN) meetings in Washington, DC, in 2001, and in Honolulu and Singapore in 2002. These meetings were eye-openers foranyone trained in ... polynomal. Neural Networks in Finance: Gaining Predictive Edge in the Market8 1. IntroductionThe financial sectors of emerging markets, in particular, but also in markets with a great deal of innovation ... human beings likeus — actually learn, process information, and make decisions.Recent research in macroeconomics by Sargent ( 199 7, 199 9), to be dis-cussed in greater detail in the following section,...