Das Gesundheitswesen hat einerseits hohe Bedeutung für die Bürger und Patienten, andererseits ist es ein zunehmend bedeutsamer Wirtschaftsfaktor. Häufige Reformen und vielfältige Berichterstattung lassen den Eindruck entstehen, dass eine rationale Steuerung der gesundheitlichen Versorgung...

Optimization methods play a central role in financial modeling. This textbook is devoted to explaining how state-of-the-art optimization theory, algorithms, and software can be used to efficiently solve problems in computational finance. It discusses some classical mean-variance portfolio...

Trust is a key dimension in the principal-agent relationship and it has been studied extensively. However, the dynamics, evolution, and intrinsic motivation and mechanisms have received less attention. This paper investigates the intrinsic motivation of trust and it proposes a theoretical model...