Artificial economics

agent-based methods in finance, Game Theory anf their applications

Agent-based Computational Economics (ACE) is a new discipline of economics, largely grounded on concepts like evolution, auto- organisation and emergence: it intensively uses computer simulations as well as artificial intelligence, mostly based on multi-agents systems. The purpose of this book is to give an up-to ...

Analysis of microdata

The book provides a simple, intuitive introduction to regression models for qualitative and discrete dependent variables, to sample selection models, and to event history models, all in the context of maximum likelihood estimation. It presents a wide range of commonly used models. The book thereby ...

La intermunicipalidad en España

La oportunidad política de crear comarcas, áreas metropolitanas o cualquier otra agrupación de municipios es una decisión que no puede estar obstaculizada por la existencia de la provincia, aunque tampoco podemos ignorar las dificultades de simultanear sobre un mismo territorio entes como las comarcas, las ...

Vergleichendes verfassungsrecht

Die Rechtsvergleichung im Verfassungsrecht hat im deutschen Sprachraum eine lange Tradition. Bislang fehlte allerdings eine einführende zusammenfassende Darstellung. Als erstes Lehrbuch des Vergleichenden Verfassungsrechts im deutschen Sprachraum untersucht das vorliegende Werk den demokratischen europäischen Verfassungsstaat der Gegenwart. Es führt in kompakter Form in die Methodik ...

Institutions, sustainability, and natural resources

institutions for sustainable forest management

A new economic theory, rather than a new public policy based on old theory, is needed to guide humanity toward sustainability. Institutions are a critical dimension of sustainability and sustainable forest management, and economic analysis of institutional dimension requires an inclusionist rather than an exclusionist ...

Company tax reform in the European Union

guidance from the United States and Canada on implementing formulary apportionment in the EU

Company Tax Reform in the European Union draws from experiences in the American states and Canadian provinces to provide guidance to the European Union. The book describes the new landscape for company tax reform in the EU and how formulary apportionment fits into that landscape ...

Environmental risk assessment

quantitative measures, anthropogenic influences, human impact

This book deals with environmental and human risk problems caused by contamination from the perspective of real world applications with quantitative procedures. It includes risk methods for the discussion of environmental problems where data are sparse or fuzzy, as well as incorporating political, social and ...

Managing dynamic networks

Collaboration of organizations reshapes traditional managerial practices, and creates new inter- organizational contexts for strategy, coordination and control, information and knowledge management. Heralded as organizational forms of the future, networks are at the same time fragile and precarious organizational arrangements, which regularly fail. In order ...

Frontiers in water resource economics

This edited volume focuses on recent methodological advances within the field of water resource economics and shows how these advances can be applied to the economics of water issues. It identifies five areas of particular importance - asymmetric information and game theory, uncertainty, space, water quality ...

Market-conform valuation of options

Table of Contents: Introduction * Construction of Arbitrage-Free Implied Trees: A New Approach * Market-Conform Option Valuation: An Empirical Assessment of Alternative Approaches * Market-Conform Valuation of American-Style Options via Monte Carlo Simulation * Synopsis.

Digital libraries

implementing strategies and sharing experiences: 8th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2005

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2005, held in Bangkok, Thailand in December 2005.The 40 revised full papers, 15 revised short papers, and 15 posters presented together with 5 keynote and invited papers were ...

The Stability and Growth Pact

experiences and future aspects

When the Euro was introduced in the EU, the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) was one of the cornerstones of the architecture of fiscal policy in the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). The call for a reform got momentum since many Member States of the ...

Knowledge management systems

information and communication technologies for knowledge management

Information and knowledge have fundamentally transformed the way businesses and social institutions work. Knowledge management promises concepts and instruments that help organizations to create an environment supportive of knowledge creation, sharing and application. Information and communication technologies (ICT) are often regarded as the enabler for ...

It's not about the technology

developing the craft of thinking for a high technology corporation

It's Not About the Technology is about a phenomenon most dreaded by high-technology industry executives: a failure at the execution leading to a missed market window. High-tech executives agree that a critical factor that drives the company to such a failure is the breakdown ...

The Invisible Hand

economic thought yesterday and today

Economic dynamics and general equilibrium

time and uncertainty

The developments in economic theory in the 1950s served to pinpoint important underlying assumptions in the study of market institutions. The conflict between observed institutions - spot markets for commodities, financial markets - and the benchmark interpretation - forward markets for commodities, allowing all trade to take place ...

How labor migrants fare

In the globalized economy, labor migration has become of central importance. A key issue in the analysis of immigration is how the migrants fare in the economy in which they migrate, and how they assimilate towards the behavior of the natives. Using data from the ...

Computational intelligence in economics and finance

Due to the ability to handle specific characteristics of economics and finance forecasting problems like e.g. non-linear relationships, behavioral changes, or knowledge- based domain segmentation, we have recently witnessed a phenomenal growth of the application of computational intelligence methodologies in this field. In this ...

Financial markets and martingales

observations on science and speculation

Starting with games of chance, from which probability theory was born, Nicolas Bouleau explains how the financial markets operate, and demonstrates how the application of mathematics has turned finance into a high-tech business, as well as a formidable and efficient tool. The human side of ...

Mathemathics for finance

an introduction to financial engineering

Designed to form the basis of an undergraduate course in mathematical finance, this book builds on mathematical models of bond and stock prices and covers three major areas of mathematical finance that all have an enormous impact on the way modern financial markets operate, namely ...

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Global justice or global revenge

international criminal justice at the crossroads

The evolving concept of universal jurisdiction, the modern doctrine of humanitarian intervention, and the challenges faced by legal theory in addressing issues of international terrorism are subjects of this profound study. The author´s main intention is to reflect upon the legal and philosophical foundations ...