Complexity research draws on complexity in various disciplines. This Handbook provides a comprehensive and current overview of applications of complexity theory in economics. The 15 chapters, written by leading figures in the field, cover such broad topic areas as conceptual issues,...

This impressive Handbook presents the quantitative techniques that are commonly employed in empirical finance research together with real-world, state-of-the-art research examples. Written by international experts in their field, the unique approach describes a question or issue in finance and...

The economists who began using statistics to analyze financial markets in the 1950s have been credited with revolutionizing the scholarship of investing and with inaugurating modern financial economics. By examining the work of economists who used statistics to analyze financial markets before...

This book summarises the latest achievements of researchers involved in the application of game theory to the analysis of environmental matters. It provides an overview of different methods and applications, and gives the reader new insights on the solutions to complex environmental problems....

In this innovative work, Robert Delorme comprehensively explores uncertainty (the irreducibility to numerically measurable probabilities) and ignorance in economics, management and the social sciences through an alternative, systematically built analytical framework. This unique book takes...

This important new book provides a valuable set of studies on spatial dynamics, emerging networks and modelling efforts. It employs interdisciplinary concepts alongside innovative trajectories to highlight recent advances in analysing and modelling the spatial economy, transport networks,...

Computable economics is a growing field of research which has been given much attention by scholars in recent decades. In this authoritative collection, the editors successfully bring together the seminal papers of computable economics from the last sixty years and encompass the works of some of...

Lars Tyge Nielsen (1983), 'Ordinal Interpersonal Comparisons in Bargaining', Econometrica, 51 (1), January, 219-21 -- Yves Sprumont (2000), 'A Note on Ordinally Equivalent Pareto Surfaces', Journal of Mathematical Economics, 34, 27-38 -- Zvi Safra and Dov Samet (2004), 'An Ordinal Solution to...

Markets and expectations -- Expected utility maximization -- Effects of heterogeneous expectations -- Forecasting among alternative strategies under uncertainty -- Expectations in time series models -- Costly information and decision making -- Applied welfare economics with boundedly rational...