Showing 1 - 10 of 166
Lukas Heim evaluates the performance of a price-level targeting rule compared to that of a standard inflation targeting rule. The comparison is based on a medium-scale DSGE model which has been estimated based on state-of-the-art Bayesian methods. The model for the Swiss economy is an expanded...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012819094
The thesis of Kristina Reimer provides a comprehensive analysis of asymmetric cost behavior (also known as cost stickiness) by discussing its origin and development in the theoretical and empirical research from the 1920s of the past century up until today. Further, using an empirical approach,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012395868
Demographic trends put a burden on EU pension provision. As the sustainability of pension systems is addressed by current pension reforms, lower benefit levels are projected. In this scenario, households may want to consider supplementing their public pension income. As their own residence is on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012396063
introduction to the necessary theory making it suitable for upper undergraduate students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012396306
This book provides a postgraduate audience the keys they need to understand and further develop a set of tools for the efficient computation of lower bounds and valid inequalities in integer programs and combinatorial optimization problems. After discussing the classical approaches described in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012396327
This book provides a handy, unified introduction to the theory of compact extended formulations of exponential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012396541
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the most important and frequently considered optimization problems concerning cutting and packing. Based on appropriate modeling approaches for the problems considered, it offers an introduction to the related solution methods. It also addresses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012396619
textbook’s coverage of the essential concepts, theory and methods, complemented with illustrative examples and exercises, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012396654
This book develops the central aspect of fixed point theory - the topological fixed point index - to maximal generality …, emphasizing correspondences and other aspects of the theory that are of special interest to economics. Numerous topological … Correspondences -- Chapter 6 Metric Space Theory -- Chapter 7 Retracts -- Chapter 8 Essential Sets of Fixed Points -- Chapter 9 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012396796
legitimate. Due to the strong quantitative approach, this thesis contributes not only to the political theory of liberalism and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012396801