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Game theory and international environmental cooperation

Finus, Michael - 2001

The book investigates various strategies to provide countries with an incentive to accede, agree and comply to an international environmental agreement (IEA). Finus shows that by integrating real world restrictions into a model, game theory is a powerful tool for explaining the divergence...

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Bargaining and the theory of cooperative games : John Nash and beyond

Thomson, William (contributor) - 2010

), 'A Class of Solutions for Group Decision Problems', Management Science, 19 (8), April, 936-46 -- Youngsub Chun (1988 …) (ed.), La Decision, Paris: Editions du CNRS, 251-63 …

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Designing international environmental agreements : incentive compatible strategies for cost-effective cooperation

Schmidt, Carsten - 2000

The international character of today's most pressing environmental problems has become a key challenge for environmental policy making. As regulation by a supranational authority is not a realistic option at present, policymakers have to rely on decentralized approaches to the management of...

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Capital and uncertainty : the capital investment process in a market economy

Runge, Ian Charles - 2000

This book is an important addition to the emerging body of new work on capital. Its primary contribution is in analysing capital investment choice as a process. The understanding of this process requires some modification and significant extension to the standard neo-classical economic tools....

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Bounded rationality and economic evolution : a contribution to decision making, economics, and management

Tisdell, Clement Allan - 1996

This seminal work advances beyond neoclassical economics to provide an integrated overview of economic decision making … managerial phenomena. The results are applied to different levels of decision-making, including decisions by individuals, taking …

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The evolution of economic institutions : a critical reader

Hodgson, Geoffrey Martin (contributor) - 2007

It is now widely acknowledged that institutions are a crucial factor in economic performance. Major developments have been made in our understanding of the nature and evolution of economic institutions in the last few years. This book brings together some key contributions in this area by...

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Uncertainty and the environment : implications for decision making and environmental policy

Young, Richard A. - 2001

This thought provoking book is concerned with the need to deal adequately with uncertainty in environmental decision … making. The author advances a critique of the use of traditional models and then develops an alternative model of decision …1. Introduction : dealing with uncertainty in environmental decision making -- 2. The decision making context -- 3 …

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Investment, capital market imperfections, and uncertainty : theory and empirical results

Lensink, Robert; Bo, Hong; Sterken, Elmer - 2001

This book presents an up-to-date overview of the theory as well as the empirics of the relationship between investment, financial imperfections and uncertainty. After reviewing the capital market imperfections literature and the empirical results, the authors discuss both traditional investment...

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Advances in evolutionary institutional economics : evolutionary mechanisms, non-knowledge and strategy

Hanappi, Gerhard (ed.); Elsner, Wolfram (ed.) - 2008

Some famous pioneers together with the most promising new practitioners in the field show within this book how they define their subject. This is an authoritative survey of important branches of evolutionary economics, containing innovative new perspectives on market dynamics and evolutionary...

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Ethics and uncertainty : the economics of John M. Keynes and Frank H. Knight

Greer, William B. - 2000

Despite their common emphasis upon uncertainty as a key economic variable, Frank Knight and John Maynard Keynes viewed its role from different ethical perspectives. These attitudes were derived from contrasting formative influences and differing views regarding the role of economic theory as...

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