Focusing on global value chains and their importance to trade, this edited collection explores the strategic role of logistics and supply chain infrastructure in the development of Africa. Skilled authors present critical analysis of the current state of logistics in Africa, and suggest...

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...

This book reflects on the causes of resource-based conflicts and competition, and presents solutions for safely and sustainably providing resources with a focus on material flow management. The contributions from different disciplines highlight issues such as safe access to resources, conflicts...

Technologische und ökonomische Rahmenbedingungen -- Prognose der installierten Leistung -- Aufkommen zur Verwertung anstehender Materialmengen -- Modellierung des Kreislaufwirtschaftssystems -- Implikationen für die optimale Ausgestaltung des Kreislaufwirtschaftssystems.

The recent economic developments have strongly increased the interest in altering raw material prices and especially in the protection from volatile and increasing prices. Jan Arnold integrates financial and operational aspects into a holistic approach to commodity procurement. He shows how to...

The Underlying Thesis -- How Long and How Much Endowing One Commodity -- Keeping the Endowment Above a Viability Threshold -- Uncertain Endowments and Economic Cycles -- Evolutions and their Temporal Windows -- Endowing Fundamental Values:Willingness To Pay -- Endowing Exchange Values: Adam...

Interactions between Economy and Climate: Climate Change and Technical Progress: Impact of Informational Constraints -- Environmental Policy in a Dynamic Model with Heterogeneous Agents and Voting -- Optimal Environmental Policy in the Presence of Multiple Equilibria and Reversible Hysteresis --...

Einführung -- Wirtschaftsgüter -- Geld und Finanzgüter -- Märkte -- Nachfrage -- Angebot -- Kaufpreisbildung -- Mengenbildung -- Marktbegegnungen -- Marktbeispiel -- Marktsimulation -- Marktsstatik -- Marktstochastik -- Marktdynamik -- Absatzstrategien -- Beschaffungsstrategien --...

Theorie des Allgemeinen Gleichgewichts -- Intertemporale Konsumnachfrage -- Das Ramsey–Modell -- Erweiterungen des Ramsey–Modells -- Wachstum -- Konjunkturelle Schwankungen -- Geld und Inflation im Ramsey–Modell -- Das Neukeynesianische Modell.

Dynamic Modeling of Monetary and Fiscal Cooperation Among Nations analyzes coordination of monetary and fiscal stabilization policies between countries and currency areas using a dynamic game approach. The first four chapters introduce the reader to the dynamics of fiscal and monetary policy...