Part I: Introductory Matter -- 1.Utility and Demand -- 2.Elements of Production -- Part II: Models -- 3.Cournot I: Constant Returns -- 4.Cournot II: Returns to Scale and Stability -- Bertrand -- 6.Stackelberg -- 7.Hotelling Duopoly -- 8.Disequilibrium Trade and Pricing of Durable Commodities --...

Today, the most pressing challenges for public economics are of macroeconomic nature: pensions, debt, income distribution, and fiscal sustainability. All these problems are compounded by the phenomenon of demographic transition and aging. This graduate textbook addresses these issues with the...

This book presents scientific metrics and its applications for approaching scientific findings in the field of Physics, Economics and Scientometrics. Based on a collection of the author’s publications in these fields, the book reveals the profound links between the measures and the findings in...

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...

Simonian Bounded Rationality and Complex Behavioral Economics -- Different Modeling Approaches for Time Lag in a Monopoly -- Learning in Monopolies with Delayed Price Information -- Hotelling Duopoly Revisited -- Dynamic Oligopoly Model with Production Adjustment and Investment Costs -- A...

This book offers a novel perspective that allows to incorporate changing consumption and production structure into models of economic growth. Starting from the empirical observation that income and consumption structure are closely related, it develops a tractable theoretical framework which...

This book presents a macroeconomic dynamic model à la Solow-Swan, including the market for labor, in a discrete time structure. The model is expanded to include expenditure on RD and public expenditure on infrastructure. For each of the three models the results are shown in time series figures,...

This book studies the coexistence of inflation and unemployment in a monetary union. The focus is on how to reduce the associated loss. The primary target of the European central bank is low inflation in Europe. The primary target of the German government is low unemployment in Germany. And the...

This book presents a new computational approach to solving large-scale Auerbach-Kotlikoff Overlapping Generations (OLG) models in a complementarity format. Unlike with integrated solution methods, the proposed decomposition algorithm allows for the solution of multi-regional and multi-sectoral...