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Investment under Uncertainty
Dixit, Avinash K.; Pindyck, Robert S. - Princeton University Press
How should firms decide whether and when to invest in new capital equipment, additions to their workforce, or the development of new products? Why have traditional economic models of investment failed to explain the behavior of investment spending in the United States and other countries? In...
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Introduction
Eswaran, Mukesh - Princeton University Press
Gender matters in economics—for even with today’s technology, fertility choices, market opportunities, and improved social norms, economic outcomes for women remain markedly worse than for men. Drawing on insights from feminism, postmodernism, psychology, evolutionary biology, Marxism, and...
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From Diffusions to Semimartingales
Aït-Sahalia, Yacine; Jacod, Jean - Princeton University Press
data has grown exponentially. This growth has been driven by the increasing availability of such data, the technological … volatility portion of the model, including methods that are robust to market microstructure noise, and address estimation and … testing questions involving the jump part of the model. As they demonstrate, the practical importance and relevance of jumps …
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Arrow's Ambitions
Düppe, Till; Weintraub, E. Roy - Princeton University Press
of its central dogma—that a competitive market economy may possess a set of equilibrium prices. The model economy for … McKenzie separately, and would become widely known as the “Arrow-Debreu Model.” While Arrow and Debreu would later go on to win …
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Preface
Aït-Sahalia, Yacine; Jacod, Jean - Princeton University Press
data has grown exponentially. This growth has been driven by the increasing availability of such data, the technological … volatility portion of the model, including methods that are robust to market microstructure noise, and address estimation and … testing questions involving the jump part of the model. As they demonstrate, the practical importance and relevance of jumps …
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Learning To See, To Adapt To, and To Value Uncertainty
Smit, Han; Moraitis, Thras - Princeton University Press
It is widely accepted that a large proportion of acquisition strategies fail to deliver the expected value. Globalizing markets characterized by growing uncertainty, together with the advent of new competitors, are further complicating the task of valuing acquisitions. Too often, managers rely...
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Preface
Rossi, Peter E. - Princeton University Press
This book reviews and develops Bayesian non-parametric and semi-parametric methods for applications in microeconometrics and quantitative marketing. Most econometric models used in microeconomics and marketing applications involve arbitrary distributional assumptions. As more data becomes...
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Twin Peaks
Colander, David; Kupers, Roland - Princeton University Press
Complexity science—made possible by modern analytical and computational advances—is changing the way we think about social systems and social theory. Unfortunately, economists’ policy models have not kept up and are stuck in either a market fundamentalist or government control narrative....
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Mix of Normals
Rossi, Peter E. - Princeton University Press
This book reviews and develops Bayesian non-parametric and semi-parametric methods for applications in microeconometrics and quantitative marketing. Most econometric models used in microeconomics and marketing applications involve arbitrary distributional assumptions. As more data becomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011082759
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Why Gender Matters in Economics
Eswaran, Mukesh - Princeton University Press
Gender matters in economics—for even with today’s technology, fertility choices, market opportunities, and improved social norms, economic outcomes for women remain markedly worse than for men. Drawing on insights from feminism, postmodernism, psychology, evolutionary biology, Marxism, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011082763