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This second volume of proceedings of the International Conference on Regional Science, Energy and Environment (Louvain, May 1975) contains papers related to general and partial equilibrium models of regional and urban development, in which natural and human resources playa dominant role.

Fixed-point algorithms have diverse applications in economics, optimization, game theory and the numerical solution of boundary-value problems. Much of this work is available only in research papers, although Scarf's book [58] gives a remarkably clear exposition of the power of fixed-point methods.

The International Summer School on Mathematical Systems Theory and Economics was held at the Villa Monastero in Varenna, Italy, from June 1 through June 12, 1967. The seven papers on basic theories are a rather complete representative sample of the fundaments of general systems theory, of the theory of dynamical systems and the theory of control.

Due to the accelerating demographic change of the population the reform of the existing pension systems constitutes one of the greatest political challenges in most European countries.

The book analyzes how modern portfolio theory and dynamic term structure models can be applied to government bond portfolio optimization problems. The author studies the necessary adjustments, examines the models with regard to the plausibility of their results and compares the outcomes to portfolio selection techniques used by practitioners.

This volume features contributions to agent-based computational modeling from the social sciences and computer sciences. Topics include agent-based macroeconomics, the emergence of norms and conventions, the dynamics of social and economic networks, and behavioral models in financial markets.

This book develops allocation mechanisms that aim to ensure an efficient resource allocation in modern IT-services.

Contains papers written by experts on a range of topics (economics, variational analysis, probability and others) closely related to convexity and generalized convexity, as well as contributions of specialists on the research on generalized convexity and applications, in particular, to optimization, economics and operations research.

This is a study on the asymptotic behaviour of boundedly rational learning procedures in self-referential models. It reports important results of current research on this topic, results which extend the boundedly rational learning appraoch.

The objective of this study is to provide an in-depth analysis of the exchange rate pass-through relationship, using Australian imports of manufactures as a case study. The study begins by piecing together the theoretical literature on exchange rate pass-through, to provide the basis for the development of models for the empirical analysis.

Most real-life problems involve making decisions to optimally achieve a number of criteria while satisfying some hard or soft constraints. The book also contains a number of very interesting application papers which demonstrate theoretical modelling, analysing and solution of real-life problems.

My interest in microsimulation started to develop when I was exposed to the works of Guy Orcutt and his associates on microsimulation of households in the USA, and those of Gunnar Eliasson and his associates on simulatio~ of Swedish firms.

Proceedings of the 2nd GAMM/IFIP-Workshop on "Stochastic Optimization:Numerical Methods and Technical Applications" held at the Federal Armed Forces University, Munich, Neubiberg/Munchen, Germany, June 15-17, 1993

The book issubdivided into three parts, where Part I is focussing oneconomic evolution, Part II on geographical development andPart III is related to demographic change.

Two aspects are given importance:1) the necessarymathematical derivations are completely explained in detailso that the reader will be able to optimally handle a givensituation with the help of the methods learned in this book,and 2) aside from the models, strong emphasis is given onnumerical methods.

For instance, a physical law states that one physical aspect is structurally dependent on one or more other aspects. Structural dependence is closely related to the mathematical idea of functional dependence. However, struc tural dependence is primarily thought of as a relation holding between aspects rather than between their measures.

This volume contains the proceedings of the summer school "Modern Methods of Optimization", held at the Schlof3 Thurnau of the University of Bayreuth, October 1-6, 1990. Equally important to the success of the summer school was the "nonmeasurable" part of the activities inherent in such a summer school.

1.1 Some characteristics of the floating exchange rate system The flexible exchange rate system has functioned far less satisfactorily than many anticipated in 1973, when the major industrialized countries decided to let their currencies float.

A well-known* Dutch economist (and trained mathematician) recently stated in 1 a local university newspaper that mathematical economists give economics a bad reputation, since they formulate their problems from a mathematical point of view and they are only interested in technical, mathematical problems.

The axiomatic foundations of the Bayesian approach to decision making assurne precision in the decision maker's judgements.

Work on the project was continued by Dirk Hausmann, Reinhardt Euler, and Rabe von Randow, and resulted in the publication of the second, third, and fourth volumes in 1978, 1982, and 1985 (Volumes 160, 197, and 243 of the above series).

After a substantial survey of panel data models, the newly proposed model is presented in detail and indirect estimations, full information and limited information estimations, and estimations with and without the assumption of normal distribution errors.

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A Simple Producer Benefit Measure . . Problems with the Producer Benefit Measure ************* ! Alternative Approaches to Benefit Measurement ********************** 70 6. The Applied General Equilibrium Modelling Approach ~ ****** 75 6. The Econometric Approach . .

The neglect of time in general and of the time structure of production in particular in mainstream economics led to the rebirth of the Austrian tradition in the seventies. Next it relates Modern Austrian Capital Theory to SRAFFA's theory and to the Austrian subjectivists' pure time preference theory of interest.

On the one hand, complexity is due to the variety in range and in level of detail of the activities that playa role in such a control (think of manufacturing process development, capacity planning, coordinating the flow of material through the production process, releasing of workorders, and scheduling).

These properties then will be used in section VI to give adapted ver sions of various heuristics which were used in assembly experiments previously and which will be tested against the test-examples.

These Proceedings report the scientific results of the Summer Study on Plural Rationality and Interactive Decision Processes orga nized jointly by the System and Decision Sciences Program of the Inter national Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (located in Laxenburg, Austria) and the Hungarian Committee for Applied Systems Analysis.