Various plants and resources such as orchards are vulnerable to the detrimental effects of successful invasions by alien animal or plant species. To outline an appropriate policy response, we first use renewal theory to construct a stochastic model of optimal orchard management in the presence...

Categorical Data and Choice Analysis in a Spatial Context -- Optimization Models -- A Combined Linear/Non-Linear Programming Model for Employment, Transportation, and Housing in an Urban Economy -- An Optimum Economic/Energy Land-Use Transportation Model -- Information Flows and Decision-Making...

Can directed technical change be used to combat climate change? We construct new firm-level panel data on auto industry innovation distinguishing between dirty (internal combustion engine) and clean (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 countries over several decades. We show that firms...

There is a widespread feeling that a substantial and increasing share of activities take place outside the official economy. This holds, in particular, for developing and transition but also for high income economies. Such activities are unrecorded by the system of national income accounting,...