Das Buch wendet sich in erster Linie an Studierende der Volkswirtschaftslehre, aber auch an Interessenten anderer Fachrichtungen. Vermittelt wird ein Überblick über die Volkswirtschaftslehre mit dem Ziel, die wichtigsten Fragestellungen dieser Disziplin aufzuzeigen und Methoden und Ansätze...

Die rasche Globalisierung der Finanzmärkte konfrontiert nicht nur Fachleute in Bankkreisen täglich mit neuen Situationen. Jedes international tätige Unternehmen braucht heute sicheres Wissen auf diesem Gebiet, um dauerhaft wettbewerbsfähig zu bleiben. Klaus Stocker führt anschaulich und...

Wie kommt es, dass in einer Ökonomie, in der jeder nach seinem eigenen Nutzen strebt, kein Chaos herrscht, sondern sich ein Zustand des Gleichgewichts einstellt? Diese verblüffende Frage beantwortete Adam Smith mit der Metapher der 'unsichtbaren Hand'. Seine Antwort wurde zur Initialzündung...

In the era of Big Data our society is given the unique opportunity to understand the inner dynamics and behavior of complex socio-economic systems. Advances in the availability of very large databases, in capabilities for massive data mining, as well as progress in complex systems theory,...

This book describes a system of mathematical models and methods that can be used to analyze real economic and managerial decisions and to improve their effectiveness. Application areas include: management of development and operation budgets, assessment and management of economic systems using...

The purpose of this book is to establish a connection between the traditional field of empirical economic research and the emerging area of empirical financial research, and to build a bridge between theoretical developments in these areas and their application in practice. Accordingly, it...

This book gives an introduction to R to build up graphing, simulating and computing skills to enable one to see theoretical and statistical models in economics in a unified way. The great advantage of R is that it is free, extremely flexible and extensible. The book addresses the specific needs...

This book is a comprehensive introduction to financial modeling that teaches advanced undergraduate and graduate students in finance and economics how to use R to analyze financial data and implement financial models. This text will show students how to obtain publicly available data, manipulate...

This book contributes to the debate on the decoupling of emerging economies from the advanced economies with a new, empirical investigation approach. Taking counterfactual experiments performed using a time-varying panel VAR model, the author argues that over the last thirty years, emerging...

This book is a comprehensive introduction of the reader into the simulation and modelling techniques and their application in the management of organisations. The book is rooted in the thorough understanding of systems theory applied to organisations and focuses on how this theory can apply to...