Mathematical Modelling in Economics : Essays in Honor of Wolfgang Eichhorn

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I EconomicsConstituent-Sensitive Public Fund Sharing -- A Production Function for Scientific Interaction -- An Approximation Method for Evolutions of Exchange Economies Making the Evolving Equilibrium Set Nice -- Samuelson’s “Shibboleth” Revisited: Proportional Budgeting Among Agents and Rank-Two Demand Systems -- Connections between Taxation, Wage Rate and the Affection to Leisure -- Social Preferences as Optimal Compromises -- An Alternative Characterization of Paretian Generalized Median Social Welfare Functions -- Tax Deductibility of Economic Depreciation to Ensure Invariant Valuations: The Johansson-Samuelson Theorem Reconsidered -- Workers’ Optimal Shares and Tax Rates in a Neo-Classical Model of Distribution and Wealth -- Closed-Form Solutions of General Intertemporal Consumption-Maximization Models -- Modelling Product Differentiation: An Application of the Theory of Functional Equations -- Financing of Public Goods by Pigouvian Taxes -- Stochastic Interpretation of the Cornfield-Leontief Multiplier Process -- Nonparametric Tests for Cost Constrained Technologies -- Strange Addictive Behaviour: Periodic and Chaotic Binges -- How to Achieve Consistent Paired Ratio Comparisons -- Rights and Game Forms, Types of Preference Orderings, and Pareto Inefficiency -- On the Compatibility of Generalized Hicks and Wage-Output-Neutral Technical Progress -- Growth Models in Comparison -- Aggregation and Graphical Representation of Input-Output Tables -- Just Intergenerational Resource Sharing: An Axiomatic Approach -- Robust Assessment of Preference Functions -- Bounds for the Frobenius Root of Non-Negative Matrices and an Economic Application -- The Dependence of the Price Level on the Expansion of the Money Supply in Closed Economies -- Income Tax Progression and Inequality Reduction -- Different Economic Theories with the Same Formal Structure: Risk, Income Inequality, Information Structures, etc. -- Endowment Changes in Economic Equilibrium: The Dutch Disease Revisited -- Efficiency Measures and Input Aggregation -- Fundamental Properties of a Surplus Function -- Factor Augmenting Representations of Technological Progress -- The Ghost and the Machine -- The Central Role of Efficiency in Inequality and Welfare Measurement Theory -- II Operations Research and Models of the Firm -- Forecasting the Development of a German Building Society - Different Methods of Mathematical Approach and Computer Simulation -- An Approach to Optimality Conditions in Vector and Scalar Optimization -- Oligopolies and Aggregate Market Power -- Alternatives for the Traditional Overhead Cost Allocation -- Deterministic Dynamic Multi-Stage Uncapacitated Lot-Sizing Problems -- Product Positioning Based on Knowledge-Oriented Support: A Logical Framework -- Computation of Optimal Dodge Sampling Plans in Restricted Classes according to the Minimax Regret Criterion -- Global Optimization and the Geometric Complementarity Problem -- A Heuristic for Multi-Product, Multi-Period, Single-Level Batch Production -- The Domain of Monotonicity and Concavity of the Transcendental Logarithmic Unit Cost Function -- Frontier Tales: DEA and FDH -- The Ecological Disaster of Bitterfeld and Chicken Games -- Some Remarks on Relational Input-Output-Models -- A Stopping Problem -- III Risk, Insurance, and Statistics -- Share Economy: What is the Meaning of “Marginal Revenue Equals Marginal Labor Cost” in a Stochastic Model? -- Symmetric Means and the Expected Utility Theorem -- The Design and Implementation of a German Stock Price Research Index (Deutscher Aktien-Forschungsindex DAFOX) -- On the Rating of Excess of Loss Reinsurance Treaties with Reinstatement -- The Financial Sector in the Systems of National Accounts -- Modelling Optimal Return of Premiums in Health Insurance -- J. Wolfowitz’s Method for Constructing Sequential Minimax Estimators -- On the Importance of Mathematical Models and Methods to the Insurance Business -- Canonical Correlations in a Two-Blocks LISREL Model -- On the Influence of Mathematics and Informatics on the Modern Insurance Industry -- Intertemporal Diversification under the Constraint of Withdrawls or Additional Deposits -- IV Policy and Methodology -- The Economic Impact of Environmental Regulation: An AGE Analysis under Alternative Treatments of Technical Change -- The Social Market Economy - Present and Future -- Financial Deregulation and Macroeconomic Stabilization Rules -- A Problem of the Transition from a Planned to a Market Economy: Should Firms Be Subsidized in Order to Avoid Their Bankrupcy? -- The Monetary Policy of the Deutsche Bundesbank and the German Money Market -- Models in Scientific Economics - Domain of Entities and Approximation to Reality -- Experimental Economics -- Models and Methods -- On Reasonable Demands for Avoidance and Recycling Regulations -- The Downward Spiral.

10.1007/978-3-642-78508-5 [DOI]

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