Many central banks in emerging and advanced economies have adopted an inflation-forecast targeting (IFT) approach to monetary policy, in order to successfully establish a stable, low-inflation environment. To support policy making, each has developed a structured system of forecasting and policy...

Because of the clearly important role cooperative systems play in areas such as military sciences, biology, communications, robotics, and economics, just to name a few, the study of cooperative systems has intensified. This book provides an insight in the basic understanding of cooperative...

Lineare und nichtlineare dynamische Systeme werden in der aktuellen wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Forschung immer wichtiger und ermöglichen ein tieferes Verständnis sowohl für geordnete wie auch chaotische Abläufe der Konjunktur und der Finanzmärkte. Mathematische Methoden, die in den...

In economic situations where action entails a fixed cost, inaction is the norm. Action is taken infrequently, and adjustments are large when they occur. Interest in economic models that exhibit ''lumpy'' behavior of this kind has exploded in recent years, spurred by growing evidence that it is...

Chapter 1 Managing, Inducing, and Preventing Regime Shifts: A Review of the Literature -- Chapter 2 Institutional change, education and population growth: lessons from dynamic modelling -- Chapter 3 Poverty Traps and Disaster Insurance in a Bi-Level Decision Framework -- Chapter 4 Rationally...