Economics

This book is based on the proceedings of the "e;International Working Conference on Model Realism"e; which was held in Bad Honnef near Bonn, April 20 - 23, 1982.

There are quite a lot of recent books on the methodology of economics, but all proceed from one or more of the following three fundamental assumptions: 1) Meta-apriorism: it is a priori believed that the results of the philosophy of science of the past decades, associated with the names of Popper, Kuhn and Lakatos, yield conceptual frameworks that can be used to describe the product of the economist's endeavours.

This volume consists of essays from a colloquium about "e;philosophy of economics"e; held at the*University of l1unich in July, 1981.

Markov processes play an important role in the study of probability theory.

1 Die Konferenzreihe des Europarats über Fragen des Parlamentarismus und der Wissen­ schaften verfolgt den Zweck, Parlamentarier, Wissenschaftler, Vertreter der Industrie, Ge­ werkschaftler und wissenschaftliche Führungskräfte aus ganz Europa, den wichtigsten in­ ternationalen Organisationen und, soweit irgend möglich, aus anderen Ländern, die vor den gleichen Problemen stehen, im Hinblick auf periodische Diskussionen bestimmter Themen zusammenzuführen.

This volume contains most of the invited papers presented at the International Work- shop on Synergetics, Schloss E1mau, Bavaria, May 2 to.

In winter 71/72 I held a seminar on general equilibrium theory for a jOint group of students in mathematics and in econo- mics at the university of Bonn , w.

At this point in time, there is no generally accepted methodology for explaining and predicting human behavior given a product choice situation.

Todaymanyeconomists, engineers and mathematicians are familiar with linear programming and are able to apply it.

This study is concerned with forecasting time series variables and the impact of the level of aggregation on the efficiency of the forecasts.

In this book problems related to the choice of models in such diverse fields as regression, covariance structure, time series analysis and multinomial experiments are discussed.

Dieses Buch bietet eine theoretische Analyse verschiedener Alterssicherungssysteme; ein Thema, das infolge der demographischen Entwicklung weltweit an Interesse gewinnt.

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This volume contains eleven articles which deal with different aspects of dynaoic and differential game theory and its applications in economic modeling and decision making.

Eine mikroökonomische Theorie des Bankverhaltens ist ein unverzichtbares Element für ein Verständis der Funktionsweise der Finanz- und Kreditmärkte und des Geldangebotsprozesses.

'frees contribute a major part of fuel, fodder and fruit, and are an im- of bioenergy.

This monograph is a systematic exposition of the authors' research on general equi- librium models with an infinite number of commodities.

In this book binary functions and their representation by implicants or implicates are described.

Increased understanding in international business grows both from an awareness of cultural differences as well as from an appreciation of underlying shared values across cultures.

faces the urgent problem of determining what political and social conditions must be preserved in order to ensure a continu.

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A knowledge of linear systems provides a firm foundation for the study of optimal control theory and many areas of system theory and signal processing.

Hysteresis phenomena are common in numerous physical, mechanical, ecological and biological systems.

There is widespread agreement in the current social and economic debate that the nations of the world are becoming increasingly integrated.

Intended for a wide range of readers, this book covers the main ideas of convex analysis and approximation theory.

Over the past fifteen years two new techniques have yielded extremely important contributions toward the numerical solution of nonlinear systems of equations.