Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Environmental Policies in the Power Sector -- Chapter 3. Features of Power Sectors -- Chapter 4. Analysis of Power System Operations with Non-Dominant Firms -- Chapter 5. Analysis of Power System Operations with a Dominant Firm and an Oligopolistic Industry...

As conceived by the founders of the Econometric Society, econometrics is a field that uses economic theory and statistical methods to address empirical problems in economics. It is a tool for empirical discovery and policy analysis. The chapters in this volume embody this vision and either...

Methods -- The Formulation and Solution of Discrete Optimisation Models -- Continuous Approaches for Solving Discrete Optimization Problems -- Logic-Based Modeling -- Modelling for Feasibility - the Case of Mutually Orthogonal Latin Squares Problem -- Network Modelling -- Modeling and...

The recent financial crisis and the difficulty of using mainstream macroeconomic models to accurately monitor and assess systemic risk have stimulated new analyses of how we measure economic activity and the development of more sophisticated models in which the financial sector plays a greater...

Main description: Econometric models are widely used in the creation and evaluation of economic policy in the public and private sectors. But these models are useful only if they adequately account for the phenomena in question, and they can be quite misleading if they do not. In response,...

Introduction: A Long View of Research and Practice in Operations Research and Management Science -- A Long View of the Past -- Economic Planning Models for India in the 1960s -- The Persistence and Effectiveness of Large-Scale Mathematical Programming Strategies: Projection, Outer Linearization,...

While the role of exports in promoting growth in general, and productivity in particular, has been investigated empirically using aggregate data for countries and industries for a long time, only recently have comprehensive longitudinal data at the firm level been used to look at the extent and...