Social distancing via shelter-in-place strategies, and wearing masks, have emerged as the most effective non-pharmaceutical ways of combatting COVID-19. In the United States, choices about these policies are made by individual states. We develop a game-theoretic model and then test it...

"This book investigates the use of service-oriented computing technologies in addressing supporting infrastructure of the cloud, including new challenges in modeling and simulation"--Provided by publisher.

This paper proposes a probit approach to measure and forecast extreme downside risks in Asian Pacific markets given information on extreme negative shocks in the U.S. and Japanese markets. The extreme downside risk of a market is measured as the occurrence of market returns falling below...