This textbook articulates the elements of good craftsmanship in applied microeconomic research and demonstrates its effectiveness with multiple examples from economic literature. Empirical economic research is a combination of several elements: theory, econometric modelling, institutional...

1 Science is Epistemology -- 2 Alpha-Beta: A Scientific Research Method -- 3 The Economic Process -- 4 The Alpha-Beta Method in Economics -- 5 Falsifying Economic Theories (I) -- 6 Falsifying Economic Theories (II) -- 7 The Alpha-Beta Method and Other Methods -- 8 Fallacies in Scientific...

The field of artificial economics (AE) embraces a broad range of methodologies relying on computer simulations in order to model and study the complexity of economic and social phenomena. The overarching principle of AE is the analysis of aggregate properties of artificial economies populated by...

Autoren in der Doktorandenausbildung führen in 35 Beiträgen ihr Wissen aus einem breiten Spektrum von selbst durchgeführten Projekten und aus Erkenntnissen der Literatur zusammen. Durch eine sorgfältige Begutachtung haben die Herausgeber ihre methodische Erfahrung einfließen lassen. Jeder...

This book consists of five acts and two interludes, which are all written as dialogues between three main characters and other supporting characters. Each act discusses the epistemological, institutional and methodological foundations of game theory and economics, while using various stories and...

In recent years, agent-based simulation has become a widely accepted tool when dealing with complexity in economics and other social sciences. The contributions presented in this book apply agent-based methods to derive results from complex models related to market mechanisms, evolution,...

This is the first book that examines the diverse range of experimental methods currently being used in the social sciences, gathering contributions by working economists engaged in experimentation, as well as by a political scientist, psychologists and philosophers of the social sciences. Until...

Using cooperative game theory, this book shows how bargaining structure affects the distribution of value among the constituent firms of the value chain. Results show that positions in the bargaining structure most conducive to value capture are those where large complementarity gains are...

Teil I Deskriptive Statistik -- Einführung -- Eindimensionale empirische Verteilungen -- Eindimensionale Maßzahlen -- Konzentrationsmessung -- Zweidimensionale Maßzahlen -- Einfache lineare Regression -- Verhältniszahlen -- Teil II Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung -- Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung...

Family reconstitution data: a cliometric view -- History of cliometrics -- Growth theories -- Cliometric approaches to war -- GDP and convergence in modern times -- Cliometrics and the great depression -- Financial Systems -- Cliometric approaches to international trade -- Time series -- The...