Dockner / Hartl / Luptacik Optimization, Dynamics, and Economic Analysis

Essays in Honor of Gustav Feichtinger
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-3-642-57684-3
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 425 Seiten, eBook

This book includes a collection of articles that present recent developments in the fields of optimization and dynamic game theory, economic dynamics, dynamic theory of the firm, and population dynamics and non standard applications of optimal control theory. The authors of the articles are well respected authorities in their fields and are known for their high quality research in the fields of optimization and economic dynamics.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dockner, Engelbert J.

Hartl, Richard F.

Luptacik, Mikulas

Sorger, Gerhard

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Optimization and Dynamic Games.- Copositivity aspects of standard quadratic optimization problems.- Computational sensitivity analysis of state constrained control problems.- Rough stability of solutions to nonconvex optimization problems.- Data envelopment analysis as a tool for measurement of eco-efficiency.- Evaluating the new activity-based hospital-financing-system in Austria.- Similarities between solutions of discrete-time (non-)linear-quadratic games.- Optimization of an n-person game under linear side conditions.- Economic Dynamics.- The dynamics of the cobweb when producers are risk averse learners.- AS-AD disequilibrium dynamics and economic growth.- Market takeovers in medieval trade.- Cobweb dynamics under bounded rationality.- A principal-agent problem in continuous time.- A note on investment credit and endogenous cycles.- The role of extrinsic motivation in the dynamics of creative professions.- Income distribution and endogenous growth.- A turnpike theorem with public capital.- Wage bargaining and incentive compatibility: Is unemployment optimal after all?.- Theory of the Firm.- Dynamic investment games.- Optimal investments with increasing returns to scale: A further analysis.- A note on dynamic transfer price bargaining.- Optimal production-inventory strategies for a reverse logistics system.- Optimal production planning in general stochastic jobshops with long-run average cost.- On an extension of classical production and cost theory.- Optimal controls in spatial advertising diffusion models.- Population Dynamics.- All about e60.- Quantifying vicious circle dynamics: The PEDA model for population, environment, development and agriculture in African countries.- The complexity of the Malthusian trap and potential routes of escape.- Natural resources standards of living and the demographic transition.- How mortality improvement increases population growth.- Miscellaneous Applications.- The evolution of drug initiation: From social networks to public markets.- On the structure of cointegration.- Model and reality - The principle of simplicity within the empirical sciences.- A Bayesian semiparametric analysis of ARCH models.- Screening policies for control of an infectious disease.- Der Herr des Chaos.- Personal Data and Publications of Gustav Feichtinger.