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Cigno, Alessandro; Werding, Martin - The MIT Press

Children and Pensions, Alessandro Cigno and Martin Werding examine the way pension policy and child-related benefits affect … they are currently designed, discourage parents from private human capital investment in their children to improve the … children's future earning capacity. After an overview of pension and child benefit policies (focusing on the European Union …

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Frontiers in Health Policy Research: Volume 6

Cutler, David M. (contributor); Garber, Alan M. (contributor) - The MIT Press

outcomes, health care output and productivity, the role of health-related behavior, health and aging, health and children, and …

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Frontiers in Health Policy Research, Volume 1

Garber, Alan M. (contributor) - The MIT Press

care output and productivity, health-related behavior, health and aging, and health and children. …

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The Theory of Money and Financial Institutions: Volume 2

Shubik, Martin - The MIT Press

This is the second volume in a three-volume exposition of Martin Shubik's vision of "mathematical institutional economics"—a term he coined in 1959 to describe the theoretical underpinnings needed for the construction of an economic dynamics. The goal is to develop a process-oriented theory of...

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The Theory of Money and Financial Institutions: Volume 1

Shubik, Martin - The MIT Press

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Competitive Strategy: Options and Games

Chevalier-Roignant, Benoit; Trigeorgis, Lenos - The MIT Press

Corporate managers who face both strategic uncertainty and market uncertainty confront a classic trade-off between commitment and flexibility. They can stake a claim by making a large capital investment today, influencing their rivals' behavior; or they can take a "wait and see" approach to...

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Heredity, Family, and Inequality: A Critique of Social Sciences

Beenstock, Michael - The MIT Press

of life the outcomes of children are correlated to a greater or lesser extent with the outcomes of their parents and …

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Optimal Control Theory with Applications in Economics

Weber, Thomas A. - The MIT Press

This book bridges optimal control theory and economics, discussing ordinary differential equations, optimal control, game theory, and mechanism design in one volume. Technically rigorous and largely self-contained, it provides an introduction to the use of optimal control theory for...

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Special Interest Politics

Grossman, Gene M.; Helpman, Elhanan - The MIT Press

This landmark theoretical book is about the mechanisms by which special interest groups affect policy in modern democracies. Defining a special interest group as any organization that takes action on behalf of an identifiable group of voters, Gene Grossman and Elhanan Helpman ask: How do special...

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A General Theory of Equilibrium Selection in Games

Harsanyi, John C.; Selten, Reinhard - The MIT Press

The authors, two of the most prominent game theorists of this generation, have devoted a number of years to the development of the theory presented here, and to its economic applications. They propose rational criteria for selecting one particular uniformly perfect equilibrium point as the...

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