In this dissertation three different economic issues have been analyzed. The firstissue is whether monetary policy rules can improve forecasting accuracy of inflation.The second is whether the preference of a central bank is symmetry or not. The last issueis whether the behavior of aggregate...

Artículo de revista ; Este artículo presenta una panorámica de la revisión del marco de política monetaria que la Reserva Federal de Estados Unidos (Fed) está llevando a cabo en la actualidad. En primer lugar, se examinan las estrategias alternativas que se están considerando para hacer...

Artículo de revista ; This article offers an overview of the monetary policy framework review currently being conducted by the United States Federal Reserve (Fed). First, we examine the alternative strategies under consideration to address the likely greater incidence of episodes in which...

En este artículo se presenta un modelo económico de equilibrio general para analizar los efectos de distintas políticas de oferta y demanda, así como las posibles sinergias entre ellas, dentro de una unión monetaria asimétrica inmersa en una «trampa de liquidez» (tipos de interés en...

A person learns by trial and error if he occasionally tries out new strategies, rejecting choices that are “erroneous” in the sense that they do not lead to higher payoffs. In a game, however, strategies can become erroneous due to a change of behavior by someone else. Such passive errors...

Scientific evidence clearly indicates that consumption of raw milk carries substantialdisease-inducing health risks. While federal U.S. policy mandates that milk moving in interstatecommerce be pasteurized; within 41 of 50 states, raw milk can be obtained for consumption.Warning labels...

Die Dissertation basiert insgesamt methodisch auf einer quantitativen, explorativ-deskriptiven Untersuchung, deren Aufbau vier Phasen (Schwerpunkte) umfasst:Der erste theoretische Teil (Kapitel 2 bis Kapitel 4) gibt einen Überblick über das ökonomische Konzept des Marktes und seines...

Behavioural economics draws upon fieldwork, experiments and research in disciplines such as psychology for building blocks to construct economic analysis that is more descriptively realistic and both augments and qualifies traditional economics as a tool for designing policy. Though behavioural...

This paper explores the interconnections between two of Herbert Simon's key concepts, bounded rationality and decomposability, and show how this unity provides the starting point for merging cognitively focused approaches to behavioral economics with evolutionary/institutional economics into a...

In der betriebswirtschaftlichen Realität werden riskante Entscheidungen meistens nach vorherigen Gewinn- oder Verlusterfahrungen getroffen und empirische Beobachtungen legen nahe, dass vorherige derartige Erfahrungen das aktuelle Risikoverhalten beeinflussen. Da dieser Umstand in den...