Economics

This is a revised version of a doctoral thesis, submitted in mimeographed fonn to the Faculty of Arts, Uppsala University, 1988.

Economic theory of the last fifty years has been dominated by the paradigm of General Equilibrium Theory, based on the scientific work of Walras-Pareto-Cassel-Wald-Hicks-Arrow-De- breu-McKenzie.

Every two years the members of GIRET (= Centre for International Re- search on Economic Tendency Surveys) meet at conferences in order to promote the scientific discussion and to encourage the exchange of ideas.

The proceedings of the Second US-Italy Seminar on Variable Structure Systems is published in this volume.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Inventory changes constitute in all countries a small fraction of the Gross National Product but also a major source or an indicator of cyclical fluctuations.

Production Management is a large field concerned with all the aspects related to production, from the very bottom decisions at the machine level, to the top-level strategic decisicns.

Generalizations of the classical concept of a convexfunction have been proposed in various fields such aseconomics, management science, engineering, statistics andapplied sciences during the second half of this century.

International commodity markets have traditionally attracted the attention of economists, econometricians, and policy makers especially in and following politically tumultuous times.

A real imports of capital and intermediate goods declinedsharply for highlyindebted countries in the 1980s, theseeconomies were faced with the need tosubstitute previouslyimported factors of production with domestic capital andlabor.

This monograph is intended for an advanced undergraduate or graduate course as well as for researchers, who want a compilation of developments in this rapidly growing field of operations research.

In this book overlapping generations economies are analysedfrom a game theoretical point of view and the socialacceptability of consumption allocations is studied ininfinite horizon models of pure exchange economieswithagents with finite lifetimes who behave cooperatively.

In the last decade highly innovatory developments have taken place in theoretical economics.

In our quickly changing world, authors who are analyzing the so- cial, economic, and political processes going on in different countries often find themselves in a situation where the deve- lopment of processes they have already described take a turn in another direction before their work is in final form or appears in print.

Die Relevanz der Telekommunikation für die gesellschaftliche, wirtschaftliche und politische Entwicklung ist unbestritten.

Using panel data of individual firms drawn from French surveys, a structural analysis is developed to study the formation of production plans and the rationality of expectations.

Diese Studie untersucht das Forschungs- und Entwicklungs-System für die Telekommunikation in zehn Ländern.

Die vorliegende Studie untersucht das Forschungs- und Entwicklungssystem (FuE) für die Telekommunikation in zehn Ländern.

Generalizations of convex functions have been used in a variety of fields such as economics.

Elements of a Nonlinear Theory of Economic Dynamics provides both a framework and a survey of its needs.

Die Studie untersucht die Vor- und Nachteile einer Trennung von Post-und Fernmeldewesen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.

Redistribution is one of the most fundamental issues in welfare economics.

Dieser Band gibt die Beiträge zu einer internationalen Konferenz wieder, die das Wissenschaftliche Institut für Kommunikationsdienste der Deutschen Bundespost am 14.

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This book treats the subject of global optimization with minimal restrictions on the behavior on the objective functions.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grant #SES-8410190.

The distribution of capital and income in general and its re- lation to wealth and economic growth in particular have attrac- ted economists' interest for a long time already.

Since 1973, the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management in Brussels has organized regular workshops in the area of management science.

These essays in honor of Professor Gerhard Tintner are substantive contributions to three areas of econometrics, (1) economic models and applications,.

The International Summer School on Mathematical Systems Theory and Economics was held at the Villa Monastero in Varenna, Italy, from June 1 through June 12, 1967.

89 TABLE 5 USE OR PLANNED USE OF MAJOR ENGINES IN AIR FORCE AND NAVY AIRCRAFT a Engine Air Force Aircraft Navy Aircraft F-80, T-33, XF-92, YB-61, AJ2, F9F-7, TV-I, J-33 YB-62, F-94 (A, B), TM- T2-V, P4M-I 61 ( tactical missile) X-3, XF-88 F3D, F2H, F6U, F7U J-34 F-84 (B, C, D, E, G, H) J-35 FJ-I B-45, XB-51, XF-9J, B-36, J-47 B-47, F-86 (D, F, K) J-48 F-94C F9F J-57 B-52, YB-60, F-lOO, A3D, F4D, F8U F-I02A, F-I0l (A, B), SNARK, F-105A, F-I07, KC-135A, B-57D, X-16 F-84F, B-57 FIIF, A4D, FJ-3, J-65 FJ-4, F9F YQ-l, YQ-2, T-37 J-69 SNARK, YF-89E, B-66 J-71 F-I01, F-I02B, F-I05, J-75 F-I07 F8U, XP6M B-58, F-I04, F-IOIA (see J-79 note c, Table 4) F5D, FIIF, A3J, F4H T-34 C-133A, YC-97J, YC-12IF R7V-2 XF-84H T-40 R3Y,XFY,A2D YC-130, YC-131C T-56 Note: a Aircraft in which engine was used or was planned to be used.

Max-Min problems are two-step allocation problems in which one side must make his move knowing that the other side will then learn what the move is and optimally counter.

During the last fifteen years certain very fundamental aspects of economic theory have been very actively debated.

I was originally induced to think about barriers to entry by some re- search done for Charles River Associates, Inc.

Introducing his book "e;The Theory of UnemPloyment Reconsidered"e;, Professor Malinvaud expressed several years ago his hope "e;to convey [his] strong belief that the reconsideration is a major step in the development of our science"e;.

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Those familiar with input-output analysis know well that compilation of input-output tables is a difficult statistical work.

The Fifth International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making, not suprisingly, had several objectives.

Semi-infinite programming is a natural extension of linear pro- gramming that allows finitely many variables to appear in infinitely many constraints.