New South African Review 6
by Samuel Kariuki, Jacqui Ala, Stephanie Allais, Doreen Atkinson, David Black, and Sarah Bracking
Despite the transition from apartheid to democracy, South Africa is the most unequal country in the world. Its extremes of wealth and poverty undermine intensifying struggles for a better life for all. The wide-ranging essays in this sixth volume of the New South African Review demonstrate how the consequences of inequality extend throughout society and the political economy, crippling the quest for social justice, polarising the politics, skewing economic outcomes and bringing devastating envi...
Mathematical Programming for Agricultural, Environmental, and Resource Economics
by Harry M Kaiser and Kent D. Messer
Mathematical Programming Models for Agriculture, Environmental, and Resource Economics provides a comprehensive overview of mathematical programming models and their applications to real world and important problems confronting agricultural, environmental, and resource economists. Unlike most mathematical programming books, the principal focus of this text is on applications of these techniques and models to the fields of agricultural, environmental, and resource economics. The three fundament...
Pricing derivatives theory comes alive in this self-contained interactive experience in financial pricing. The no-arbitrage perspective in a one-period state-preference model drives the book, and the Maple (R) and Matlab (R) programs help readers visualize payoffs and respond to various constraints and conditions. With clear explanations and lavish illustrations, Pricing Derivative Securities: An Interactive, Dynamic Environment with Maple V and Matlab teaches the core theoretical concepts so of...
Weak convergence of stochastic processes is one of most important theories in probability theory. Not only probability experts but also more and more statisticians are interested in it. In the study of statistics and econometrics, some problems cannot be solved by the classical method. In this book, we will introduce some recent development of modern weak convergence theory to overcome defects of classical theory.
The Costs of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
by C. Ross Anthony, Daniel Egel, Charles P Ries, and Mary E Vaiana
Quantitative Toolkit for Economics and Finance
by Stephen Siegel and Lee Mathis
This primer covers mathematical methods used in both economics and finance courses at the undergraduate and MBA levels. It describes the purpose and techniques, both algebraic and geometric, associated with basic economic model building and interpretation. For students with a weaker background in mathematics, this book provides a intuitive explanation of the basic mathematical tools utilized in economics. For students with a stronger background, this book simplifies the application of those tool...
Fuzzy Cooperative Games (Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, #72)
by Milan Mares
The book deals with the mathematical model of coalitional cooperation based on vague knowledge of its expected outcomes. This reality is described by the model of coalitional game (with or without transferable utility) in which the expected pay-offs are represented by fuzzy quantities or by fuzzy sets of real-valued vectors. This approach to the fuzziness in the bargaining is new and completes the existing literature on this topic by alternative views. The presentation does not demand deeper tha...
This book presents new methods for resolving important puzzles in macro-dynamic analysis: firstly detecting causal relations among changing dynamic variables; and secondly estimating the divisions of nominal income change into output change and price level change. The first topic is the basis of analysis of economic growth and business cycle phenomena, and as such has significant policy implications both in the medium and long term, for economic growth and development. The second topic is a ques...
Global Interdependence, Decoupling, and Recoupling (CESifo Seminar)
by Yin-Wong Cheung and Frank Westermann
This volume deals with problems of estimating and testing socio-economic relations arising in single and simultaneous equations. It incorporates applications from diverse areas, including industrial organiszation, labour, education, public finance trade, money and financial economics. Ghosh discusses some of the most recent techniques and models in the discipline and provides an extensive survey of real-world econometric studies.
Introduction to Computational Optimization Models for Production Planning in a Supply Chain
by Stefan Vo_, David L Woodruff, and Stefan Voc
The book begins with an easy-to-read introduction to the concepts associated with the creation of optimization models for production planning. These concepts are then applied to well-known planning models, namely mrp and MRP II.From this foundation, fairly sophisticated models for supply chain management are developed. Another unique feature is that models are developed with an eye toward implementation. In fact, there is a chapter that provides explicit examples of implementation of the basic m...
Handbook of Game Theory with Economic Applications (Handbooks in Economics, #3)
This is the first volume of the Handbook of Game Theory with Economic Applications, to be followed by two additional volumes. Game Theory has developed greatly in the last decade, and today it is an essential tool in much of economic theory. The three volumes will cover the fundamental theoretical aspects, a wide range of applications to economics, several chapters on applications to political science, and individual chapters on relations with other disciplines. The topics covered in the present...
The second edition of this popular guide demonstrates the process of entering and analyzing data using the latest version of SPSS (12.0), and is also appropriate for those using earlier versions of SPSS. The book is easy to follow because all procedures are outlined in a step-by-step format designed for the novice user. Students are introduced to the rationale of statistical tests and detailed explanations of results are given through clearly annotated examples of SPSS output. Topics covered ran...
Dimensions of Energy Economics (Contemporary Studies in Economic & Financial Analysis, Vol 32)
by Noel D. Uri
The papers in this volume, derived from Quo Vadis international workshop held in Rome, Italy, in 2013, address the two major challenges facing the global economy: globalization and European structural crisis as well as examining the impact on the Italian economy. A host of experts drawn from international institutions, economic and political research centres, and leading economists provide a multi-disciplinary perspective on the outlook of the world economy, taking into consideration factors suc...
This publication provides insight into the agricultural sector. It illustrates new tendencies in agricultural economics and dynamics (interrelationship with other sectors in rural zones and multifunctionality) and the implications of the World Trade Organization negotiations in the international trade of agricultural products. Due to environmental problems, availability of budget, consumer preferences for food safety and pressure from the World Trade Organization, there are many changes in the...
Dieses Lehrbuch bietet eine praxisorientierte Einfuhrung in die Methoden der Okonometrie. Angesichts der zunehmenden Bedeutung der empirischen Analyse in Wissenschaft und Praxis will das Buch die Okonometrie aus ihrer formal-mathematischen Ecke herausholen und einem breiteren Interessentenkreis zuganglich machen. In der Konzeption des Lehrbuches erhielt deshalb didaktisches Profil grundsatzlich Vorrang vor wissenschaftlicher Eleganz. Unterstutzt durch zahlreiche Illustrationen, ausfuhrliche verb...
Political Economy of the Environment (Bloomsbury Academic Collections: Japan)
by Shigeto Tsuru
This study of Japan's environmental problems places the issues within a socio-economic context. It provides an historical account of environmental disruption in Japan, and considers countermeasures against environmental problems.
Cost Structure and the Measurement of Economic Performance
by Catherine J Morrison Paul
Cost Structure and the Measurement of Economic Performance is designed to provide a comprehensive guide for students, researchers or consultants who wish to model, construct, interpret, and use economic performance measures. The topical emphasis is on productivity growth and its dependence on the cost structure. The methodological focus is on application of the tools of economic analysis - the `thinking structure' provided by microeconomic theory - to measure technological or cost structu...