Should the generosity of unemployment benefits and the progressivity of income taxes depend on the presence of business cycles? This paper proposes a tractable model where there is a role for social insurance against uninsurable shocks to income and unemployment, as well as inefficient business...

List of Models -- 1. Consumer Behavior Models -- 2. Models of Advertising and Sales Promotion -- 3. Pricing Models -- 4. Product Models -- 5. Sales Forecasting Models -- 6. Facility Location Models -- 7. Sales Force Models -- 8. Marketing Mix Models -- 9. Miscellaneous Models.

As a new type of technique, simplicial methods have yielded extremely important contributions toward solutions of a system of nonlinear equations. Theoretical investigations and numerical tests have shown that the performance of simplicial methods depends critically on the triangulations...

This book presents recent theoretical and practical aspects in the field of optimization and convex analysis. The topics covered in this volume include: - Equilibrium models in economics. - Control theory and semi-infinite programming. - Ill-posed variational problems. - Global optimization. -...

The volume contains the proceedings of a workshop on "Parallel Algorithms and Transputers for Optimization" which was held at the University of Siegenon November 9, 1991 plus some invited papers covering topics related to this workshop. In contrast to many other publications on parallel...

1. Convex Cones and linear Inequalities -- 1. Separation theorems -- 2. Cones and duals -- 3. Linear inequalities over cones -- 4. Theorems of the alternative -- 2. Mathematical Programming over Cones -- 5. Linear programming -- 6. Quadratic programming -- 7. The complementarity problem -- 8....

This voluume contains actual contributions to the current research directions in Optimizatiton Theory as well as applications to economic problems and to problems in industrial engineering. Of particular interest are: convex- and Nonsmooth Analysis, Sensitivity Theory, Optimization techniques...

This paper examines the econometric causal model for policy analysis developed by the seminal ideas of Ragnar Frisch and Trygve Haavelmo. We compare the econometric causal model with two popular causal frameworks: Neyman-Holland causal model and the do-calculus. The Neyman-Holland causal model...

Treatment effect estimates in regression discontinuity (RD) designs are often sensitive to the choice of bandwidth and polynomial order, the two important ingredients of widely used local regression methods. While Imbens and Kalyanaraman (2012) and Calonico, Cattaneo and Titiunik (2014) provide...