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...

Knowledge producers conducting research on a particular set of questions may respond to supply and demand shocks by shifting resources to a different set of questions. Cognitive mobility measures the transition from one location to another in idea space. We examine the cognitive mobility flows...

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 argues that, in studying the monetary policy transmission process, more emphasis should be given to the systematic portion of policy behavior and correspondingly less to random shocks basically because shocks account for a very small fraction of policy-instrument variability. Analysis...