chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 Sustainability in theTwenty-First Century -- chapter 3 3Chapter Quantifying Sustainability for Improved Decision Making -- chapter 4 4Chapter Water -- chapter 5 5Chapter Greenhouse Gases and Climate Change -- chapter 6 6Chapter Energy -- chapter 7 7Chapter...

1. Black-Scholes model -- 2. Multivariate Black-Scholes model -- 3. Discussion of the Black-Scholes model -- 4. Measures of risk and performance -- 5. Modeling interest rates -- 6. Levy models -- 7. Stochastic volatility models -- 8. Copulas and applications -- 9. Filtering -- 10. Applications...

part Part I International financial markets and environment -- chapter 1 The world of international finance -- part Section I The markets for foreign exchange -- chapter 2 An introduction to exchange rates -- chapter 3 Forward exchange -- chapter 4 Currency futures and options markets -- part...

I introduce money into an incomplete markets model with heterogeneous agents and uninsurable income risk. I show that the model exhibits both non-monetary and monetary equilibria, with the latter existing when income risk is sufficiently high. Using numerical methods, I characterize the...

The legitimacy of the world trading system is under growing attack, as challenges to its conformity with norms of fairness and social justice are increasingly voiced by citizens and their governments around the world. Taking a novel "bottom up" approach to concerns for fairness, we show how...

This chapter reviews recent advances in the task model and shows how this framework can be put to work to understand the major labor market trends of the last several decades. Production in each industry necessitates the completion of a range of tasks, which can be allocated to workers of...