%0 Report %9 Working Paper %@ 10.2139/ssrn.1667442 %A Giovanis, Eleftherios %D 2010 %F eprints:1632 %I IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca %K Keywords: Radial Basis Function, Neural Networks, Time-Series, Forecasting, Stock Returns, MATLAB, Error Backpropagation Algorithm - JEL Classification: C22, C45, C53, C63, G10 %T Applications of Neural Network Radial Basis Function in Economics and Financial Time Series %U http://eprints.imtlucca.it/1632/ %X In this paper we present the Radial Basis Neural Network Function. We examine some simple numerical examples of time-series in economics and finance. The forecasting performance is significant superior, especially in financial time-series, to traditional econometric modeling indicating that artificial intelligence procedure are more appropriate. Some MATLAB routines are presented for further application research.