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This book presents an up-to-date overview of the theory as well as the empirics of the relationship between investment … investment theory, professionals in the financial sector and students of macroeconomics and finance. Investment, Capital Market …
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adding to the existing thought in this area, with insights from game theory, rational choice under uncertainty and new … exposition of the risk/return trade-off and how major capital investment decisions are made within firms. Topics studied include …
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differing views regarding the role of economic theory as applied to the real world. William Greer reveals that the intellectual …
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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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research in the areas of market structure, sustainability and decision-making. It includes several contemporary topics, such as … environmental impact, and questions why decision makers often fail to tackle transport-related problems. Three of the key factors … decision making, detailing transport policy and attempts to change transport systems. Practical guidelines on how to …
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distributional preference as developed through public choice theory. This fine collection illustrates Harold M. Hochman's major …
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This seminal work advances beyond neoclassical economics to provide an integrated overview of economic decision making … developments in learning and game theory, transaction costs and evolutionary economics to provide new insights into economic and … managerial phenomena. The results are applied to different levels of decision-making, including decisions by individuals, taking …
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"Presenting innovative modelling approaches to the analysis of fiscal policy and government debt, this book moves beyond previous models that have relied upon the assumption that various age-specific rates and policy variables remain unchanged when it comes to generating government expenditures...
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Recently there has been a resurgence of interest in the study of optimal monetary policy under uncertainty. This book provides a thorough survey of the literature that has resulted from this renewed interest. The authors ground recent contributions on the 'science of monetary policy' in the...
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One of the unforeseen consequences of the WTO agreements has been controversy over risk. This volume explores aspects … of risk with special reference to the WTO, where national instruments to reduce risk may conflict with international … trade rules. The book is divided into sections dealing with: accounting for risk in trade agreements; risk and the WTO …
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