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Cómo hablar de dinero

Autor: John Lanchester

Número de Páginas: 328

Desde hace ya unos cuantos años es imposible ver un telediario o abrir un periódico sin toparse con un alud de información económica –mayormente inquietante– relacionada con la crisis, los mercados, la inflación, el FMI, la deuda, los bonos basura, el producto interior bruto, la especulación financiera... Y lo que es peor, desde hace algunos años ya no es una opción viable cambiar de canal o pasar página pensando que todo eso es un tostón para expertos y que es inútil intentar entender esos conceptos económicos. Y no es una opción porque esos conceptos tienen una incidencia directa o indirecta en nuestros bolsillos, en nuestra cesta de la compra, en nuestro salario, en nuestras pensiones, en el futuro de nuestros hijos. Éste es un libro sobre economía para los que no entienden de economía, aunque los que sí entienden lo leerán con idéntica fruición, porque Lanchester es un divulgador portentoso, que utiliza una aguda ironía y aplica su sagacidad en desmontar clichés. Y de este modo nos explica cómo hemos llegado hasta aquí, por qué bajo la apariencia de impecable funcionamiento la economía del último cuarto del siglo XX se convirtió en algo muy...

Pensar Estratégicamente

Autor: Avinash K. Dixit , Barry J. Nalebuff

Número de Páginas: 420

CONTENIDO: Diez cuentos de estrategia - Prever las respuestas del rival - hay que penetrar en la estrategia del rival - Cómo resolver el dilema de los presos - Jugadas estratégicas - Compromisos creíbles - Impredicibilidad - Funambulismo estratégico - Cooperación y coordinación - La estrategia en las votaciones - Negociaciones - Incentivos - Estudio de algunos casos.

Les marchés où l'argent ne fait pas la loi

Número de Páginas: 208

"Aussi amusant qu'impressionnant. De la science sociale à son meilleur niveau !" - Gégory N. Mankiw Alvin Roth dévoile les règles souvent surprenantes régissant un vaste nombre d’activités – à la fois banales et extraordinaires – dans lesquelles l’argent ne joue pas ou peu de rôle. Si vous avez déjà recherché ou proposé un emploi, postulé pour entrer à l’université, sollicitéun rendez-vous galant ou vous en êtes vu proposer un, vous avez été partie prenante d’un marché. L’économie étudie principalement les marchés des biens, où le prix relie vendeurs et acheteurs. Mais qu’en est-il des autres types de biens, comme une place en première année à Yale ou un poste chez Google ? C’est le territoire des marchés d’appariements, où « vendeurs » et « acheteurs » doivent se choisir l’un l’autre et où le prix n’est pas l’unique facteur déterminant « qui » va obtenir « quoi ». L’auteur est l’un des experts majeurs et reconnus des marchés d’appariements et a conçu nombre d’entre eux, dont le système d’échange qui gère le placement en internat des étudiants de médecine ou la formule qui augmente le nombre de...

Les marchés où l'argent ne fait pas la loi

Autor: Alvin Roth

Número de Páginas: 292

Prix Nobel d’économie, Alvin Roth dévoile les règles souvent surprenantes régissant un vaste nombre d’activités dans lesquelles l’argent ne joue pas ou peu de rôle. C’est le territoire des marchés d’appariement, où « vendeurs » et « acheteurs » doivent se choisir l’un l’autre. Dans cet ouvrage, il révèle les marchés d’appariement cachés autour de nous et nous apprend à reconnaître un bon appariement, pour faire ainsi des choix plus avisés et subtils.

Just Exchange

Autor: Francis H. Buckley

Número de Páginas: 216

Now, for the first time, there is a comprehensive, eminently readable book designed to focus thinking in the area of contract law. This book bridges the gap between law and economics by confronting normative values that economists too often deem the preserve of moral philosophers. Contract theorists, on the other hand, are seldom in sympathy with economic efficiency norms. While free bargaining continues to be regarded with suspicion by legal scholars who are hostile to private ordering, the proper scope of free bargaining remains in dispute. Combined with a recent renewed interest in this field, these academic tensions mean that the time is right for a reconsideration of contract law. Drawing on scholarship from diverse fields and using illuminating and erudite examples, Just Exchange is entertaining as well as informative. Of interest to economists, lawyers, public policy-makers and those intersted in contract theory, this volume is a valuable overview of a vital intersection between legal studies and economics.

Competition Law and Collusion in Public Procurement

Autor: Penelope Giosa

Número de Páginas: 218

This book examines infringements of competition law in public procurement settings, evaluating the latest European Procurement Directive 2014/24/EU to examine to what extent its provisions facilitate or deter collusion during specific award procedures. Public contracts account for a significant proportion of EU expenditure. In sectors such as energy, transport, social protection and the provision of health or education services, public authorities are the main purchasers. It is important to ensure that public contracts are awarded in an open, fair and transparent manner that enables domestic and non-domestic firms to compete on an equal basis, with the aim of improving the quality and lowering the price of purchases made by public authorities. This book assesses the competition law enforcement mechanisms that competition regulators bring to the area of public procurement in the attempt to deter bid rigging. It analyzes key tools for the public and private enforcement of competition law in the domain of public contracts, such as the leniency programme, damages claims for bid rigging and the whistle blower programme. The book uses auction theory as benchmark to assess the risk of...

Bargaining theory and fairness

Autor: Arwed Crüger , Karlheinz Bischofberger

Número de Páginas: 180

Two new bargaining games, called "Freedom to Punish (FTP)" and "Right and Choice to Punish (RAP)", are developed, analyzed and tested by means of an experimental implementation. Hypotheses about behavior are developed, discussed and tested. The central hypotheses are aimed at the importance of freedom of choice, on the difference between the FTP game and the RAP game, and on the crowding-out of intrinsic motivation. As might have been expected, fairness plays a role in both games, represented by the frequent appearances of equal splits as well as by the frequent rejections of unfair offers.In addition to that, fairness was crowded out by the new Institution of a veto power decision, confirming the importance of the institutional setting for behavior. Contrary to the few veto power sales in the RAP game, an amazingly high number of receivers refrained from veto power in the FTP game. This significant difference has clearly been attributed to the different information conditions and the existence of a bonus. This bonus can be interpreted in terms of freedom of choice, and exploits a value for the freedom to choose for the first time in experimental economics....

Advances in Behavioral Economics

Autor: Colin F. Camerer , George Loewenstein , Matthew Rabin

Número de Páginas: 769

Twenty years ago, behavioral economics did not exist as a field. Most economists were deeply skeptical--even antagonistic--toward the idea of importing insights from psychology into their field. Today, behavioral economics has become virtually mainstream. It is well represented in prominent journals and top economics departments, and behavioral economists, including several contributors to this volume, have garnered some of the most prestigious awards in the profession. This book assembles the most important papers on behavioral economics published since around 1990. Among the 25 articles are many that update and extend earlier foundational contributions, as well as cutting-edge papers that break new theoretical and empirical ground. Advances in Behavioral Economics will serve as the definitive one-volume resource for those who want to familiarize themselves with the new field or keep up-to-date with the latest developments. It will not only be a core text for students, but will be consulted widely by professional economists, as well as psychologists and social scientists with an interest in how behavioral insights are being applied in economics. The articles, which follow Colin...

Why Wages Don't Fall during a Recession

Autor: Truman F. Bewley , Truman F Bewley

Número de Páginas: 538

A deep question in economics is why wages and salaries don't fall during recessions. This is not true of other prices, which adjust relatively quickly to reflect changes in demand and supply. Although economists have posited many theories to account for wage rigidity, none is satisfactory. Eschewing "top-down" theorizing, Truman Bewley explored the puzzle by interviewing--during the recession of the early 1990s--over three hundred business executives and labor leaders as well as professional recruiters and advisors to the unemployed. By taking this approach, gaining the confidence of his interlocutors and asking them detailed questions in a nonstructured way, he was able to uncover empirically the circumstances that give rise to wage rigidity. He found that the executives were averse to cutting wages of either current employees or new hires, even during the economic downturn when demand for their products fell sharply. They believed that cutting wages would hurt morale, which they felt was critical in gaining the cooperation of their employees and in convincing them to internalize the managers' objectives for the company. Bewley's findings contradict most theories of wage rigidity ...

Altruistically Inclined?

Autor: Alexander J. Field

Número de Páginas: 394

DIVAn exploration of the role of altruism in the discipline of economics /div

Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Experimental Economics

Autor: Arthur Schram , Aljaž Ule

Número de Páginas: 437

This volume offers a comprehensive review of experimental methods in economics. Its 21 chapters cover theoretical and practical issues such as incentives, theory and policy development, data analysis, recruitment, software and laboratory organization. The Handbook includes separate parts on procedures, field experiments and neuroeconomics, and provides the first methodological overview of replication studies and a novel set-valued equilibrium concept. As a whole, the combination of basic methods and current developments will aid both beginners and advanced experimental economists.

Economic Thinkers

Autor: David A. Dieterle

Número de Páginas: 591

Who are the individuals whose novel ideas, writings, and philosophies have influenced economics throughout history—and in doing so, have helped change the world? This encyclopedia provides a readable study of economics by examining the great economists themselves. This book presents biographies of 200 economic thinkers throughout history, supplying a one-stop reference about the men and women whose ideas, writings, and philosophies created the foundation of our current understanding of economics. Depicting their subjects within the contexts of history, development economics, and econometrics, these biographies provide an insightful overview of the world of economics through the economists of significance and the many subdisciplines, topics, eras, and philosophies they represent. Economic Thinkers: A Biographical Encyclopedia begins by describing economic thinkers in ancient Greece and Rome, moves through history to cover economists in the 15th through 19th centuries, and addresses economic theory in the 20th century and the modern era. Written to be easily accessible and highly readable, the work will appeal to students, scholars, general readers, and anyone interested in...

Cómo Adam Smith puede cambiar tu vida

Autor: Russell Roberts

Número de Páginas: 187

Con La riqueza de las naciones, su obra más famosa, Adam Smith ha sido considerado el santo patrón del capitalismo. Sin embargo, muy pocos saben cuánto tenía que decir el filósofo escocés sobre el comportamiento humano: sobre cómo nos percibimos a nosotros mismos, cómo nos relacionamos y qué decisiones tomamos en nuestra búsqueda de la felicidad. Smith desarrolló sus ideas sobre la naturaleza humana en una obra genial, La teoría de los sentimientos morales. La mayoría de los economistas nunca la han leído, y durante mucho tiempo el economista Russell Roberts no fue una excepción. Pero cuando finalmente se adentró en este libro del fundador de su disciplina, se dio cuenta de que probablemente se encontraba ante la mejor obra para conocerse a sí mismo que hubiera leído jamás. En Cómo Adam Smith puede cambiar tu vida, Roberts examina esta obra maestra relegada a menudo a un segundo plano y desvela el valioso tesoro de una sabiduría práctica e intemporal. La descripción que hace Smith de la naturaleza humana es tan relevante hoy como hace doscientos años. ¿Qué puede hacernos verdaderamente felices? ¿Conseguir la fama y la fortuna o el respeto de nuestros...

Dividing the Indivisible

Autor: Fredrik Präntare

Número de Páginas: 184

Allocating resources, goods, agents (e.g., humans), expertise, production, and assets is one of the most influential and enduring cornerstone challenges at the intersection of artificial intelligence, operations research, politics, and economics. At its core—as highlighted by a number of seminal works [181, 164, 125, 32, 128, 159, 109, 209, 129, 131]—is a timeless question: How can we best allocate indivisible entities—such as objects, items, commodities, jobs, or personnel—so that the outcome is as valuable as possible, be it in terms of expected utility, fairness, or overall societal welfare? This thesis confronts this inquiry from multiple algorithmic viewpoints, focusing on the value-maximizing combinatorial assignment problem: the optimization challenge of partitioning a set of indivisibles among alternatives to maximize a given notion of value. To exemplify, consider a scenario where an international aid organization is responsible for distributing medical resources, such as ventilators and vaccines, and allocating medical personnel, including doctors and nurses, to hospitals during a global health crisis. These resources and personnel—inherently indivisible and...

Spontaneous Order

Autor: H. Peyton Young

Número de Páginas: 401

Spontaneous Order brings together Peyton Young's research on evolutionary game theory and its diverse applications across a wide range of academic disciplines, including economics, sociology, philosophy, biology, computer science, and engineering. Enhanced with an introductory essay and commentaries, the book pulls together the author's work thematically to provide a valuable resource for scholars of economic theory. Young argues that equilibrium behaviors often coalesce from the interactions and experiences of many dispersed individuals acting with fragmentary knowledge of the world, rather than (as is often assumed in economics) from the actions of fully rational agents with commonly held beliefs. The author presents a unified and rigorous account of how such 'bottom-up' evolutionary processes work, using recent advances in stochastic dynamical systems theory. This analytical framework illuminates how social norms and institutions evolve, how social and technical innovations spread in society, and how these processes depend on adaptive learning behavior by human subjects.

Finanzas y Desarrollo, diciembre de 2014

Autor: International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.

Número de Páginas: 60

For the latest thinking about the international financial system, monetary policy, economic development, poverty reduction, and other critical issues, subscribe to Finance & Development (F&D). This lively quarterly magazine brings you in-depth analyses of these and other subjects by the IMF's own staff as well as by prominent international experts. Articles are written for lay readers who want to enrich their understanding of the workings of the global economy and the policies and activities of the IMF.

Better Living through Economics

Autor: John J. Siegfried

Número de Páginas: 324

This book consists of 12 case studies—from building the foundation for eliminating the military draft in 1973 to implementing the Pension Reform Act in 2006—that demonstrate how economic research has improved economic and social conditions over the past half century by influencing public policy decisions.

Trade-Offs

Autor: Harold Winter

Número de Páginas: 193

How economists analyze real-world issues from overeating to organ transplants: “A wonderful introduction to economics for the layperson.” —Choice When economists wrestle with issues such as unemployment, inflation, or budget deficits, they do so by incorporating an impersonal, detached mode of reasoning. But economists also analyze issues that, to others, typically do not fall within the realm of economic reasoning, such as organ transplants, cigarette addiction, overeating, and product safety. Trade-Offs is an introduction to the economic approach to analyzing these controversial public policy issues. Harold Winter provides readers with the analytical tools needed to identify and understand the trade-offs associated with these topics. By considering both the costs and benefits of potential policy solutions, Winter stresses that real-world decision making is best served by an explicit recognition of as many trade-offs as possible. This new edition incorporates recent developments in policy debates, including the rise of “new paternalism,” or policies designed to protect people from themselves; alternative ways to increase the supply of organs available for transplant;...

Artificial Life VII

Autor: Mark A. Bedau , John S. Mccaskill , Norman H. Packard , Steen Rasmussen

Número de Páginas: 584

The term "artificial life" describes research into synthetic systems that possess some of the essential properties of life. This interdisciplinary field includes biologists, computer scientists, physicists, chemists, geneticists, and others. Artificial life may be viewed as an attempt to understand high-level behavior from low-level rules—for example, how the simple interactions between ants and their environment lead to complex trail-following behavior. An understanding of such relationships in particular systems can suggest novel solutions to complex real-world problems such as disease prevention, stock-market prediction, and data mining on the Internet. Since their inception in 1987, the Artificial Life meetings have grown from small workshops to truly international conferences, reflecting the field's increasing appeal to researchers in all areas of science.

El Trimestre económico

Número de Páginas: 512

La société du matching

Autor: Melchior Simioni , Philippe Steiner

Número de Páginas: 166

La société du matching est déjà là. À plusieurs étapes décisives de nos vies, nous confions notre sort à des algorithmes qui trient les individus selon un schéma très singulier : on choisit et on est choisi en même temps. L'accès à des ressources aussi essentielles que la formation, le partenaire amoureux ou un greffon dépend de cette technologie. Contrairement à la relation marchande où payer suffit, ou aux prestations sociales qui sont versées de droit, le matching suppose une relation sociale symétrique : nous choisissons selon les informations à notre disposition et en même temps nous sommes choisis à partir de données que nous produisons sur nous-mêmes. Un principe qui modifie en profondeur le rapport entre le collectif et l'individu et accélère l'avènement d'une société singulariste. Philippe Steiner est professeur de sociologie à Sorbonne Université. Melchior Simioni est chercheur en sociologie au GEMASS (Sorbonne Université / CNRS). Ensemble, ils ont dirigé Comment ça matche ? Sociologie de l’appariement (Presses de Sciences Po, 2022).

Field Experiments in Economics

Autor: Judith Favereau , Michiru Nagatsu

Número de Páginas: 136

This book adopts an integrated history and philosophy of science approach to consider the historical origins and methodological pitfalls of field experiments in economics. It explains key concepts such as control and randomization and identifies two distinct origins of field experimentation in economics: controlled laboratory experiments and randomized field trials. Careful historical analysis reveals that two strands of field experiments have developed, with rather different methodological rationales regarding the validity, both internal and external, of inferences about experimental results. The authors propose a unified methodological framework that makes explicit the complementarity between the two strands of field experiments, as well as between experimentation and other research methods such as econometrics. In addition, the methodological framework aims not only to bridge both strands but also to make explicit often-assumed ethical and political values in experimental design and practice in the field. This book will be valuable reading for advanced students and scholars in the history of economics, philosophy of economics, economic methodology, and experimental economics....

Algoritmos Fundamentales

Autor: Donald E. Knuth

Número de Páginas: 702

El primer volumen basado en la segunda edición americana puede considerarse como la intersección de todo el conjunto de libros, en el sentido de que contiene el material básico que se utiliza en los restantes volúmenes.

Agents, Games, and Evolution

Autor: Steven Orla Kimbrough

Número de Páginas: 506

Games, or contexts of strategic interaction, pervade and suffuse our lives and the lives of all organisms. How are we to make sense of and cope with such situations? How should an agent play? When will and when won't cooperation arise and be maintained? Using examples and a careful digestion of the literature, Agents, Games, and Evolution: Strategies at Work and Play addresses these encompassing themes throughout, and is organized into four parts: Part I introduces classical game theory and strategy selection. It compares ideally rational and the "naturalist" approach used by this book, which focuses on how actual agents chose their strategies, and the effects of these strategies on model systems. Part II explores a number of basic games, using models in which agents have fixed strategies. This section draws heavily on the substantial literature associated with the relevant application areas in the social sciences. Part III reviews core results and applications of agent-based models in which strategic interaction is present and for which design issues have genuine practical import. This section draws heavily on the substantial literature associated with the application area to...

Comment ça matche

Autor: Melchior Simioni , Philippe Steiner

Número de Páginas: 299

Dans notre monde, des algorithmes proposent, selon la règle d’optimalité à l’œuvre, la paire la mieux ajustée possible, entre des personnes à la recherche de relations amoureuses utilisant des applications de rencontre, ou entre des personnes et des logements HLM, des traitements médicaux, des emplois ou encore des formations via la plateforme Parcoursup. Les enjeux résultant de ces processus d’appariement, de matching sont majeurs : moments de bifurcation qui façonnent les trajectoires individuelles, ils constituent une nouvelle manière d’allouer des ressources et de structurer les inégalités. Cet ouvrage étudie ces processus sociaux afin d’éclairer leur fonctionnement et de comprendre leurs implications sociales et politiques. Philippe Steiner est professeur de sociologie à Sorbonne Université. Melchior Simioni est docteur en sociologie économique.

El cielo es real

Autor: Todd Burpo , Lynn Vincent

Número de Páginas: 208

Un niño sale de una cirugía, que le salvó la vida, contando asombrosas historias acerca de su visita al cielo. El cielo es real es la verdadera historia del hijo de cuatro años del pastor de un pequeño pueblo de Nebraska que durante una operación de emergencia visitó el cielo. El niño sobrevivió y afirma que veía, desde un plano superior, al doctor operando y a su padre orando en la sala de espera. La familia no sabía qué creer, aunque pronto la evidencia se hizo más clara. Colton decía que conoció a su hermana que murió antes de nacer, de la que nadie le había hablado; y a su abuelo, que murió treinta años antes de que Colton naciera. Además, describía el caballo que solamente Jesucristo montaba, lo enorme que es Dios y su silla, y la manera en que el Espíritu Santo derrama poder desde el cielo para ayudarnos. Relatado por su padre, el mensaje es que El cielo es real, que Cristo ama a los niños y que estemos preparados, porque viene la última batalla.

Game Theory and Behavior

Autor: Jeffrey Carpenter , Andrea Robbett

Número de Páginas: 725

An introduction to game theory that offers not only theoretical tools but also the intuition and behavioral insights to apply these tools to real-world situations. This introductory text on game theory provides students with both the theoretical tools to analyze situations through the logic of game theory and the intuition and behavioral insights to apply these tools to real-world situations. It is unique among game theory texts in offering a clear, formal introduction to standard game theory while incorporating evidence from experimental data and introducing recent behavioral models. Students will not only learn about incentives, how to represent situations as games, and what agents “should” do in these situations, but they will also be presented with evidence that either confirms the theoretical assumptions or suggests a way in which the theory might be updated. Features: Each chapter begins with a motivating example that can be run as an experiment and ends with a discussion of the behavior in the example. Parts I–IV cover the fundamental “nuts and bolts” of any introductory game theory course, including the theory of games, simple games with simultaneous decision...

Foundations of Insurance Economics

Autor: Georges Dionne , Scott E. Harrington

Número de Páginas: 742

Economic and financial research on insurance markets has undergone dramatic growth since its infancy in the early 1960s. Our main objective in compiling this volume was to achieve a wider dissemination of key papers in this literature. Their significance is highlighted in the introduction, which surveys major areas in insurance economics. While it was not possible to provide comprehensive coverage of insurance economics in this book, these readings provide an essential foundation to those who desire to conduct research and teach in the field. In particular, we hope that this compilation and our introduction will be useful to graduate students and to researchers in economics, finance, and insurance. Our criteria for selecting articles included significance, representativeness, pedagogical value, and our desire to include theoretical and empirical work. While the focus of the applied papers is on property-liability insurance, they illustrate issues, concepts, and methods that are applicable in many areas of insurance. The S. S. Huebner Foundation for Insurance Education at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School made this book possible by financing publication costs. We are...

Real-World Decision Making

Autor: Morris Altman

Número de Páginas: 689

The first and only encyclopedia to focus on the economic and financial behaviors of consumers, investors, and organizations, including an exploration of how people make good—and bad—economic decisions. Traditional economic theories speculate how and when people should spend money. But consumers don't always behave as expected and often adopt strategies that might appear unorthodox yet are, at times, more effective than the rule prescribed by conventional wisdom. This groundbreaking text examines the ways in which people make financial decisions, whether it is because they are smart but atypical in their choices ... or just irrational decision makers. A leading authority on behavioral economics, Morris Altman and more than 150 expert contributors delve into key concepts in behavioral economics, economic psychology, behavioral finance, neuroeconomics, experimental economics, and institutional economics to help inform economic models based on reality, not theory. Through 250 informative entries, the book explores various aspects of the subject including decision making, economic analysis, and public policy. In addition to introducing concepts to readers new to the subject, the...

Handbook on the Economics of Philanthropy, Reciprocity and Social Enterprise

Autor: Stefano Zamagni , Luigino Bruni

Número de Páginas: 489

The recent era of economic turbulence has generated a growing enthusiasm for an increase in new and original economic insights based around the concepts of reciprocity and social enterprise. This stimulating and thought-provoking Handbook not only encourages and supports this growth, but also emphasises and expands upon new topics and issues within the economics discourse. Original contributions from key international experts acknowledge and illustrate that markets and firms can be civilizing forces when and if they are understood as expressions of cooperation and civil virtues. They provide an illuminating discourse on a wide range of topics including reciprocity, gifts and the civil economy, which are especially relevant in times of crisis for financial capitalism. The Handbook questions the current phase of the market economy that arises from a state of anthropological pessimism. Such anthropological cynicism is one of the foundations of the contemporary economic system that is challenged by the contributors. This highly original and interdisciplinary Handbook will provide a fascinating read for academics, researchers and students across a wide range of fields including...

Rethinking Law's Families and Family Law

Autor: Frederik Swennen , Elise Goossens , Tine Van Hof

Número de Páginas: 297

This multi-faceted book combines theoretical, empirical and practical approaches to explore how family law is responding to the ever-changing social dynamics of the family. Bringing together a broad range of experts with innovative perspectives from across the globe, Rethinking Law's Families and Family Law highlights family law's current challenges and presents key avenues for future research.

Business Analytics for Decision Making

Autor: Steven Orla Kimbrough , Hoong Chuin Lau

Número de Páginas: 403

Business Analytics for Decision Making, the first complete text suitable for use in introductory Business Analytics courses, establishes a national syllabus for an emerging first course at an MBA or upper undergraduate level. This timely text is mainly about model analytics, particularly analytics for constrained optimization. It uses implementations that allow students to explore models and data for the sake of discovery, understanding, and decision making. Business analytics is about using data and models to solve various kinds of decision problems. There are three aspects for those who want to make the most of their analytics: encoding, solution design, and post-solution analysis. This textbook addresses all three. Emphasizing the use of constrained optimization models for decision making, the book concentrates on post-solution analysis of models. The text focuses on computationally challenging problems that commonly arise in business environments. Unique among business analytics texts, it emphasizes using heuristics for solving difficult optimization problems important in business practice by making best use of methods from Computer Science and Operations Research....

The Early Admissions Game

Autor: Christopher Avery , Andrew Fairbanks , Richard Zeckhauser

Número de Páginas: 398

Based on the careful examination of more than 500,000 applications to fourteen elite colleges and hundreds of interviews with students, counselors, and admissions officers, this book details the advantages and pitfalls of applying early as it provides a map for students and parents to navigate the process.

Finances & Développement, décembre 2014

Autor: International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.

Número de Páginas: 60

For the latest thinking about the international financial system, monetary policy, economic development, poverty reduction, and other critical issues, subscribe to Finance & Development (F & D). This lively quarterly magazine brings you in-depth analyses of these and other subjects by the IMF's own staff as well as by prominent international experts. Articles are written for lay readers who want to enrich their understanding of the workings of the global economy and the policies and activities of the IMF.

Handbook of Experimental Economic Methodology

Autor: Guillaume R. Fréchette , Andrew Schotter

Número de Páginas: 491

The Handbook of Experimental Economic Methodology, edited by Guillaume R. Fréchette and Andrew Schotter, aims to confront and debate the issues faced by the growing field of experimental economics. For example, as experimental work attempts to test theory, it raises questions about the proper relationship between theory and experiments. As experimental results are used to inform policy, the utility of these results outside the lab is questioned, and finally, as experimental economics tries to integrate ideas from other disciplines like psychology and neuroscience, the question of their proper place in the discipline of economics becomes less clear. This book contains papers written by some of the most accomplished scholars working at the intersection of experimental, behavioral, and theoretical economics talking about methodology. It is divided into four sections, each of which features a set of papers and a set of comments on those papers. The intention of the volume is to offer a place where ideas about methodology could be discussed and even argued. Some of the papers are contentious---a healthy sign of a dynamic discipline---while others lay out a vision for how the authors...

Advances in Economic Theory

Autor: Truman F. Bewley

Número de Páginas: 452

These articles should be helpful to anyone with training in economics.

Higgling

Autor: Neil De Marchi , Mary S. Morgan

Número de Páginas: 426

Selección de trabajos de tipo histórico sobre la evolución del ajuste del precio entre la oferta y la demanda del mercado en un método perfecto.

Experimental Political Science

Autor: B. Kittel , W. Luhan , R. Morton

Número de Páginas: 288

An exploration of core problems in experimental research on voting behaviour and political institutions, ranging from design and data analysis to inferences with respect to constructs, constituencies and causal claims. The focus of is on the implementation of principles in experimental political science and the reflection of actual practices.