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-edge Handbook presents a timely analysis of the conditions that reduce or exacerbate disaster impacts. Addressing developments in … research on disaster economics, internationally recognized scholars explore the role of both the private and public sectors in … disasters on economic activity, including the behavioral consequences, biases and heuristics, and risk preferences. Delving …
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This timely book deals with the problem of pricing passenger and freight transportation within Europe. The contributors argue that current legislation affecting pricing and regulation is increasingly less successful in dealing with market failures and externalities such as congestion, air...
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This book systematically addresses the issue of interdependence between road projects in a network, when prioritising and scheduling road expansion and maintenance. The book presents substantial applications for both rural and urban projects and to the optimization of maintenance. The authors...
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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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elements together, the author presents a seminal model combining preferences and heuristics to explain choices in the …
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affects relations between varying levels of government, and examine the hypotheses underlying the theory of fiscal federalism … Fiscal Theory of Political Federalism', in Universities - National Bureau Committee for Economic Research (ed.), Public … Economic Review, 42, 583-92 -- Timothy J. Goodspeed and Andrew Haughwout (2007), 'On the Optimal Design of Disaster Insurance …
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1. The disaster cycle -- 2. Hurricane Katrina : a classic natural disaster -- 3. The first World War -- 4. The Great …A crisis is a period of uncertainty that may or may not lead to disaster, depending in part on the capacity of actors … Eurozone upheavals this timely book argues that the disaster cycle - a framework normally used in the context of natural …
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"Featuring real world examples of how risk information affects public choices, The Economics of Environmental Risk expertly demonstrates that policy makers need to consider how people learn about those risks. Offering insights into examples such as hazardous waste, radon, smoking, hurricanes and...
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role of heuristics and marketers' decision making within the industry's growing utilisation of AI. Simone Guercini analyses … over a decade of research, arguing that heuristics remain an important behavioural indicator despite complex data …-driven models now characterising marketers' decision making. Key examples of heuristics within marketing automation are referenced …
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Firm Size, Innovation and Market Structure uses evolutionary dynamic theory, non-linear mathematics and computer … simulation techniques to explore the relationship between firm size, innovation and market structure. The book begins by …
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