The book presents a collection of essays addressing a perceived need for persistent and logical thinking, critical reasoning, rigor and relevance on the part of researchers pursuing their doctorates. Accordingly, eminent experts have come together to consider these significant aspects of the...

Part I - The New World of Economic Thinking: Economic Thinking -- Anything Worth Doing Is Not Necessarily Worth Doing Well -- Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs-And Economist’s Demand -- Part II -The New World of Market Economics: Price and the “Law of Unintended Consequences”.- Pricing Lemons,...

Teil I Deskriptive Statistik -- Einführung -- Eindimensionale empirische Verteilungen -- Eindimensionale Maßzahlen -- Konzentrationsmessung -- Zweidimensionale Maßzahlen -- Einfache lineare Regression -- Verhältniszahlen -- Teil II Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung -- Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung...

Transferring Negative Externalities: Feedback Effects of Self-Protection Choices in a Two Hemispheres Model -- Structural Change, Economic Growth and Environmental Dynamics with Heterogeneous Agents -- Bifurcations and Chaotic Attractors in an Overlapping Generations Model with Negative...

Immer stärker basieren Unternehmensentscheidungen auf der Auswertung wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Daten. Ökonomen und Sozialwissenschaftler sehen sich daher mit immer größeren Datenmengen konfrontiert, die mit statistischen Methoden geordnet und analysiert werden müssen. Daher kommt der...

We exploit a rich administrative panel data-set for cohorts of Economics students at a UK university in order to identify causal effects of class absence on student performance. We utilise the panel properties of the data to control for unobserved heterogeneity across students and hence for...

Suppose an agency awards a fixed number of prizes to applicants in different categories such that the applicant-to-winner ratio is constant by category. It is demonstrated in a simple theoretical model that the number of awards in a category will typically be positively related to the degree of...

This open access book examines the methodological complications of using complexity science concepts within the social science domain. The opening chapters take the reader on a tour through the development of simulation methodologies in the fields of artificial life and population biology, then...

The balance between the right to privacy and the right to freedom of information is altered when scientific research comes into play, because of its inherent needs and societal function. This paper argues that, for research purposes, microdata should be characterised as a public good. The...