Ebook: Optimization, Dynamics, and Economic Analysis: Essays in Honor of Gustav Feichtinger

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.

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-X
Copositivity Aspects of Standard Quadratic Optimization Problems....Pages 1-11
Computational Sensitivity Analysis of State Constrained Control Problems....Pages 12-21
Rough Stability of Solutions to Nonconvex Optimization Problems....Pages 22-35
Data Envelopment Analysis as a Tool for Measurement of Eco-Efficiency....Pages 36-48
Evaluating the New Activity-Based Hospital Financing System in Austria....Pages 49-63
Similarities between Solutions of Discrete-Time (Non-)Linear-Quadratic Games....Pages 64-75
Optimization of an n -Person Game Under Linear Side Conditions....Pages 76-85
The Dynamics of the Cobweb When Producers are Risk Averse Learners....Pages 86-100
AS-AD Disequilibrium Dynamics and Economic Growth....Pages 101-117
Market Takeovers in Medieval Trade....Pages 118-133
Cobweb Dynamics under Bounded Rationality....Pages 134-150
A Principal-Agent Problem in Continuous Time....Pages 151-162
A Note on Investment, Credit and Endogenous Cycles....Pages 163-169
The Role of Extrinsic Motivation in the Dynamics of Creative Professions....Pages 170-180
Income Distribution and Endogenous Growth....Pages 181-189
A Turnpike Theorem with Public Capital....Pages 190-199
Wage Bargaining and Incentive Compatibility: Is Unemployment Optimal After All?....Pages 200-213
Dynamic Investment Games....Pages 214-225
Optimal Investments with Increasing Returns to Scale: A Further Analysis....Pages 226-238
A Note on Dynamic Transfer Price Bargaining....Pages 239-245
Optimal Production-Inventory Strategies for a Reverse Logistics System....Pages 246-258
Optimal Production Planning in Stochastic Jobshops with Long-Run Average Cost....Pages 259-274
On an Extension of Classical Production and Cost Theory....Pages 275-287
Optimal Controls in Spatial Advertising Diffusion Models....Pages 288-297
Quantifying Vicious Circle Dynamics: The PEDA Model for Population, Environment, Development and Agriculture in African Countries....Pages 298-310
The Complexity of the Malthusian Trap and Potential Routes of Escape....Pages 311-322
Natural Resources, Standards of Living, and the Demographic Transition....Pages 323-336
How Mortality Improvement Increases Population Growth....Pages 337-344
The Evolution of Drug Initiation: From Social Networks to Public Markets....Pages 345-352
On the Structure of Cointegration....Pages 353-367
Model and Reality -The Principle of Simplicity within the Empirical Sciences....Pages 368-374
A Bayesian Semiparametric Analysis of ARCH Models....Pages 375-388
Screening Policies for Control of an Infectious Disease....Pages 389-400
Der Herr des Chaos....Pages 401-407
Back Matter....Pages 408-409
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