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Recently there has been a resurgence of interest in the study of optimal monetary policy under uncertainty. This book …
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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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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:...
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: Theory and Practice 1, Amsterdam, Holland, New York, NY and Oxford, UK: North-Holland Publishing Company, 203-26 -- Peter K … Edition, McGraw-Hill. -- Lando, D. (2004), Credit Risk Modeling: Theory and Applications, Princeton University Press …), "The Cost of Capital, Corporation Finance and the Theory of Investment," American Economic Review, 48, 261-297. -- Nelson …
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settings in many countries are projected to lead to unsustainable levels of public debt; Tax Policy and Uncertainty explores … models that allow for feedbacks and uncertainty to combat this. Applicable to any country, the models in the book explore the … focusing on fiscal policy will appreciate the improved models in this book that allow both for uncertainty and feedback effects …
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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 …, financial imperfections and uncertainty. After reviewing the capital market imperfections literature and the empirical results …, the authors discuss both traditional investment models with uncertainty and the more modern option based models. They …
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adding to the existing thought in this area, with insights from game theory, rational choice under uncertainty and new … extension to the standard neo-classical economic tools. Capital and Uncertainty is a non-mathematical text, modernizing and …
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neoclassical theory to deal with uncertainty and risk aversion is based upon a string of assumptions which are empirically false …In Finance, Investment and Macroeconomics, Myron J. Gordon advances a theory of finance and investment under … uncertainty and risk aversion which resolves problems left unsolved by Keynes in a manner consistent with his work. Keynes …
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, poverty, resource degradation and decision-making under uncertainty. The book explores the allocation of resources in jointly …-dependent economies. The final part considers the way that decision makers handle the uncertainty that is an integral feature of the …
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