Logit Models for Spatial Interaction: Background -- COST-MINIMIZING BEHAVIOR - CONSTANT LINK COSTS -- Logit Models for Discrete Choice -- Some Particular Logit Models -- Welfare, Benefit and Freedom of Choice -- Graphical Tests of Cost-Minimizing Behavior in Logit Models -- Empirical and Policy...

Einleitung in die Ermittlung der Übernahme- und Fusionswahrscheinlichkeit für Akquiseziele in der deutschen Stahlindustrie auf Basis von Finanzkennzahlen -- Methodisch-konzeptionelle Grundlagen zu den eingesetzten Arbeitstechniken und Hypothesen zu Übernahmen und Fusionen -- Identifizierung...

This book investigates if and how agricultural market structures and farm constraints affect the development of dynamic food and cash crop sectors and whether these sectors can contribute to economic transformation and poverty reduction in Africa. The authors map the current cash and food crops...

The Tanzanian coastal areas are socially, nutritionally, economically and environmentally important, yet they are vulnerable to both over-exploitation and degradation of their habitats. This book demonstrates the extent which various socio-economic dimensions of rural coastal households...

This book provides a definitive account of the recent history of the International Monetary Fund, and the successes it has enjoyed since it was founded. With fascinating contributions by current and former IMF staff members, this book offers a unique insight into the workings of the organization...

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...

National economic planning aims at defining strategic economic objectives and priorities for a country and designing longer term policies and institutional frameworks to achieve them. Complemented in some cases by industrial policies, economic planning is a dynamic attempt to change the...