The risk of counterparty default in banking, insurance, institutional, and pension-fund portfolios is an area of ongoing and increasing importance for finance practitioners. It is, unfortunately, a topic with a high degree of technical complexity. Addressing this challenge, this book provides a...

This book presents a rigorous treatment of the mathematical instruments available for dealing with income distributions, in particular Lorenz curves and related methods. The methods examined allow us to analyze, compare and modify such distributions from an economic and social perspective....

Introduction -- The Revived Interest in the Problems of Income and Wealth Distribution -- Re-incorporating Distributional Issues Into the Main Body of Economic Analysis -- Aim and Contents of this Book -- The Parametric Approach to Income and Wealth Distributional Analysis -- The Idea of a...

1 Quantile Regression: An Overview. 2 Linear and Nonparametric Quantile Regression -- 3 A Quantile Regression Analysis of Assessment Regressivity.-4 Quantile Version of the Spatial AR Model -- 5 . Conditionally Parametric Quantile Regression.- 6 Guide to Further Reading -- References

This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to multi-agent, multi-choice repetitive games, such as the Kolkata Restaurant Problem and the Minority Game. It explains how the tangible formulations of these games, using stochastic strategies developed by statistical physicists employing...

This book presents a variety of research papers on factories’ locations, city systems, and regional development. Consisting of three parts, it provides insights into the locational aspects of firms’ activities from a strategic perspective. Part 1 discusses decision-making in the context of...

Annette Illy entwickelt Bewertungsmaßstäbe zur Messung von Dezentralisierung auf kommunaler Ebene und untersucht mit modernen ökonometrischen Methoden den Einfluss von Gemeindetypen und Gemeindegröße auf die kommunale Effizienz und die Zufriedenheit der Bürger. Dies ist vor allem vor dem...

Andreas Burth stellt einen Mechanismus vor, der die Themen Haushaltskonsolidierung und Doppik konzeptionell in einem doppischen Schuldenbremsenmodell miteinander verbindet. Der Autor untersucht eine konkrete, u.a. vom Bund der Steuerzahler Hessen angeregte Möglichkeit der...