Alternative Sentencing -- Private Prisons -- Prostitution -- Drugs -- Gangs -- Gun Control -- Police.Fighting crime breeds emotional responses which often lead to counter-productive government policy. To allow a rational analysis of these important concerns, this book employs the thinking of economics, political science, and game theory to develop new perspectives on crime and its causes. A bas…
To Intuition -- Adam Smith. New Intuitions For A New Age -- John Stuart Mill. An Anti-Intuitionist Social Reformer -- Alfred Marshall. Metaphysician and Economist -- Intuition and Analysis in the Economics of the John Maynard Keynes -- Frank Knight. Intuition, Risk and Uncertainty -- Swimming Against the Stream. Herbert Simon, Harvey Leibenstein, George Shackle, Friedrich von Hayek -- Intuition…
Introductory Notes on the Dynamics of Linear and Linearized Systems -- Complex and Chaotic Dynamics in Economics -- Ergodic Theory of Nonlinear Dynamics -- Local Bifurcation Theory Applied to OLG Models -- Heterogeneous Agent Models: two simple examples -- Complex Oligopoly Dynamics -- Coexisting Attractors and Complex Basins in Discrete-time Economic Models.Many problems in theoretical economi…
and Overview -- Probabilistic Voting in the Spatial Model of Elections: The Theory of Office-motivated Candidates -- Local Political Equilibria -- Electoral Competition Between Two Candidates of Different Quality: The Effects of Candidate Ideology and Private Information -- Party Objectives in the “Divide a Dollar” Electoral Competition -- Generalized Bandit Problems -- The Banks Set and th…
Applications to Marketing -- Advertising Directed Towards Existing and New Customers -- Advertising and Advertising Claims Over Time -- Environmental Applications -- Capital Resource Substitution, Overshooting, and Sustainable Development -- Hierarchical and Asymptotic Optimal Control Models for Economic Sustainable Development -- Common Property Resource and Private Capital Accumulation with R…
Corporate Debt Valuation: The Structural Approach -- Bessel Processes and Asian Options -- Dynamic Management of Portfolios with Transaction Costs under Tychastic Uncertainty -- The Robust Control Approach to Option Pricing and Interval Models: An Overview -- A Finite Element Method for Two Factor Convertible Bonds -- On Numerical Methods and the Valuation of American Options -- Valuing America…
Acronyms and general notations -- Management and Risk -- The Human Being and Risks -- Principles of Risk Management in Design -- Risk Management at Debugging Tests -- Risk Management in Operation on Basis of Monitoring -- Risk Management on Dangerous Plant -- Bases of Logic and Probabilistic Calculus -- Logic and Probabilistic Method and Risk -- Automated Structural and Logical Modelling -- Fou…
The Propagation of Macroeconomic Shocks: A Dynamic Model with Contracts and Imperfect Competition -- Variable Elasticity of Substitution and Economic Growth: Theory and Evidence -- Financial Intermediation and Economic Growth: A Semiparametric Approach -- Bridging the Gap: Linking Economics and Econometrics -- Revenue Smoothing in an ARIMA Framework: Evidence from the United States -- What VAR …
Learning in Computational and Laboratory Experiments -- The Implementation of the Turing Tournament: A Report -- Expectations Structure in Asset Pricing Experiments -- Learning in a “Basket of Crabs”: An Agent-Based Computational Model of Repeated Conservation Auctions -- On the Benefit of Additional Information in Markets with Heterogeneously Informed Agents — an Experimental Study -- Ga…
Economic Property Rights Dilemma: An Example -- Solution Concepts -- Policy Concepts of Appropriation -- Definition of Enterprises: Basic Elements of Formalization -- Arguments and coarguments -- E.p.r.s Gains and Welfare Structures -- Opening Structures: Simple Opening -- Dual Opening Structures -- Advanced Openings -- Quasiinsitutions -- Representation Theory: Clubs, Policies and Leadership -…