Chapter 1. About Trends in General -- Chapter 2. Excursus: Dealing with Fuzzy Information -- Chapter 3. Trend Analysis in Companies -- Chapter 4. Trend Research: Collecting Trend Information -- Chapter 5. Trend Analysis: Understanding Effects -- Chapter 6. Excursus: Thinking Traps in Trend...

We interpret the TV-show Come Dine with Me as a simultaneous non-cooperative game with evaluation levels as strategic variables, and show that it belongs to a class of strategic games which we label mutual evaluations games (MEG). Any MEG possesses a zero equilibrium - i. e. a Nash equilibrium...

We solve an N 2 N player general-sum differential game. The optimization problem considered here is based on the Uzawa Lucas model of endogenous growth. Agents have logarithmic preferences and own two capital stocks. Since the number of players is an arbitrary fixed number N 2 N, the model?s...

Basel II changes risk management in banks strongly. Internal rating procedures would lead one to expect that banks are changing over to active risk control. But, if risk management is no longer a simple "game against nature", if all agents involved are active players then a shift from a...