An Overview of RBC models -- Dynare Foundations: solving and simulating DSGE models -- RBC model with analytical solution -- RBC model with constant labor -- RBC model with variable labor -- RBC model with shock to investment and variable use of capital -- Small Open Economy RBC -- Dynamic...

The paper defines a simple tatonnement process of adjustments in prices and quantities, where excess demand results in nominal price increases and excess supply results in quantity rationing of supply at unchanged prices. Under reasonable assumptions, the process converges to a...

Ordinally single-peaked preferences are distinguished from cardinally single-peaked preferences, in which all players have a similar perception of distances in some one-dimensional ordering. While ordinal single-peakedness can lead to disconnected coalitions that have a "hole" in the ordering,...

Previous work on the property rights theory of the firm suggests that in the presence of outside options, ownership may be counter productive in motivating managers. This paper shows that this conclusion depends on the assumption that a manager's outside option only depends on her own...

Social scientists are often concerned with the dynamics of struggles over resources and with the effect of these struggles on the process of development and change. This continuous dynamic game is intended to add to our knowledge of the dynamics of struggles over property.

1. Introduction to R -- 2. Linear Algebra -- 3. Functions of one variable -- 4. Dierential Calculus -- 5. Integral Calculus -- 6. Multivariable Calculus -- 7. Constrained Optimization -- 8. Trigonometry -- 9. Complex numbers -- 10. Difference equations -- 11. Differential equations.

Born of a belief that economic insights should not require much mathematical sophistication, this book proposes novel and parsimonious methods to incorporate ignorance and uncertainty into economic modeling, without complex mathematics. Economics has made great strides over the past several...