Dynamic Economic Decision Making
Dynamic Economic Decision Making

Author: John E. Silvia

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-06-24

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 1118100956

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A comprehensive analysis of the macroeconomic and financial forces altering the economic landscape Financial decision-making requires one to anticipate how their decision will not only affect their business, but also the economic environment. Unfortunately, all too often, both private and public sector decision-makers view their decisions as one-off responses and fail to see their decisions within the context of an evolving decision-making framework. In Decision-Making in a Dynamic Economic Setting, John Silvia, Chief Economist of Wells Fargo and one of the top 5 economic forecasters according to Bloomberg News and USA Today, skillfully puts this discipline in perspective. Details realistic, decision-making approaches and applications under a broad set of economic scenarios Analyzes monetary policy and addresses the impact of financial regulations Examines business cycles and how to identify economic trends, how to deal with uncertainty and manage risk, the building blocks of growth, and strategies for innovation Decision-Making in a Dynamic Economic Setting details the real-world application of economic principles and financial strategy in making better business decisions.

Dynamic Perspectives on Managerial Decision Making
Dynamic Perspectives on Managerial Decision Making

Author: Herbert Dawid

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-09-15

Total Pages: 518

ISBN-13: 3319391208

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This volume collects research papers addressing topical issues in economics and management with a particular focus on dynamic models which allow to analyze and foster the decision making of firms in dynamic complex environments. The scope of the contributions ranges from daily operational challenges firms face to strategic choices in dynamic industry environments and the analysis of optimal growth paths. The volume also highlights recent methodological developments in the areas of dynamic optimization, dynamic games and meta-heuristics, which help to improve our understanding of (optimal) decision making in a fast evolving economy.

Forward-Looking Decision Making
Forward-Looking Decision Making

Author: Robert E. Hall

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2010-02-08

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 1400835267

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Individuals and families make key decisions that impact many aspects of financial stability and determine the future of the economy. These decisions involve balancing current sacrifice against future benefits. People have to decide how much to invest in health care, exercise, their diet, and insurance. They must decide how much debt to take on, and how much to save. And they make choices about jobs that determine employment and unemployment levels. Forward-Looking Decision Making is about modeling this individual or family-based decision making using an optimizing dynamic programming model. Robert Hall first reviews ideas about dynamic programs and introduces new ideas about numerical solutions and the representation of solved models as Markov processes. He surveys recent research on the parameters of preferences--the intertemporal elasticity of substitution, the Frisch elasticity of labor supply, and the Frisch cross-elasticity. He then examines dynamic programming models applied to health spending, long-term care insurance, employment, entrepreneurial risk-taking, and consumer debt. Linking theory with data and applying them to real-world problems, Forward-Looking Decision Making uses dynamic optimization programming models to shed light on individual behaviors and their economic implications.

Probability Models for Economic Decisions, second edition
Probability Models for Economic Decisions, second edition

Author: Roger B. Myerson

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2019-12-17

Total Pages: 569

ISBN-13: 0262355604

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An introduction to the use of probability models for analyzing risk and economic decisions, using spreadsheets to represent and simulate uncertainty. This textbook offers an introduction to the use of probability models for analyzing risks and economic decisions. It takes a learn-by-doing approach, teaching the student to use spreadsheets to represent and simulate uncertainty and to analyze the effect of such uncertainty on an economic decision. Students in applied business and economics can more easily grasp difficult analytical methods with Excel spreadsheets. The book covers the basic ideas of probability, how to simulate random variables, and how to compute conditional probabilities via Monte Carlo simulation. The first four chapters use a large collection of probability distributions to simulate a range of problems involving worker efficiency, market entry, oil exploration, repeated investment, and subjective belief elicitation. The book then covers correlation and multivariate normal random variables; conditional expectation; optimization of decision variables, with discussions of the strategic value of information, decision trees, game theory, and adverse selection; risk sharing and finance; dynamic models of growth; dynamic models of arrivals; and model risk. New material in this second edition includes two new chapters on additional dynamic models and model risk; new sections in every chapter; many new end-of-chapter exercises; and coverage of such topics as simulation model workflow, models of probabilistic electoral forecasting, and real options. The book comes equipped with Simtools, an open-source, free software used througout the book, which allows students to conduct Monte Carlo simulations seamlessly in Excel.

Handbook of the Fundamentals of Financial Decision Making
Handbook of the Fundamentals of Financial Decision Making

Author: Leonard C. MacLean

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 941

ISBN-13: 9814417351

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This handbook in two parts covers key topics of the theory of financial decision making. Some of the papers discuss real applications or case studies as well. There are a number of new papers that have never been published before especially in Part II.Part I is concerned with Decision Making Under Uncertainty. This includes subsections on Arbitrage, Utility Theory, Risk Aversion and Static Portfolio Theory, and Stochastic Dominance. Part II is concerned with Dynamic Modeling that is the transition for static decision making to multiperiod decision making. The analysis starts with Risk Measures and then discusses Dynamic Portfolio Theory, Tactical Asset Allocation and Asset-Liability Management Using Utility and Goal Based Consumption-Investment Decision Models.A comprehensive set of problems both computational and review and mind expanding with many unsolved problems are in an accompanying problems book. The handbook plus the book of problems form a very strong set of materials for PhD and Masters courses both as the main or as supplementary text in finance theory, financial decision making and portfolio theory. For researchers, it is a valuable resource being an up to date treatment of topics in the classic books on these topics by Johnathan Ingersoll in 1988, and William Ziemba and Raymond Vickson in 1975 (updated 2 nd edition published in 2006).

Dynamic Games in Economics
Dynamic Games in Economics

Author: Josef Haunschmied

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-07-08

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 3642542484

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Dynamic game theory serves the purpose of including strategic interaction in decision making and is therefore often applied to economic problems. This book presents the state-of-the-art and directions for future research in dynamic game theory related to economics. It was initiated by contributors to the 12th Viennese Workshop on Optimal Control, Dynamic Games and Nonlinear Dynamics and combines a selection of papers from the workshop with invited papers of high quality.

A Survey Of Dynamic Games In Economics
A Survey Of Dynamic Games In Economics

Author: Ngo Van Long

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2010-09-23

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 981446595X

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This book provides readers with a comprehensive survey of models of dynamic games in economics, including an extensive coverage of numerous fields of applications. It will also discuss and explain main concepts and techniques used in dynamic games, and inform readers of its major developments while equipping them with tools and ideas that will aid in the formulation of solutions for problems. A Survey of Dynamic Games in Economics will interest those who wish to study more about the conceptions, approaches and models that are applied in the domain of dynamic games.

Smart Economic Decision-Making in a Complex World
Smart Economic Decision-Making in a Complex World

Author: Morris Altman

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2020-05-26

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 0128114614

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Smart Economic Decision-Making in a Complex World is a fresh and reality-based perspective on decision-making with significant implications for analysis, self-understanding and policy. The book examines the conditions under which smart people generate outcomes that improve their place of work, their household and society. Within this work, the curious reader will find interesting open questions on many fascinating areas of current economic debate, including, the role of realistic assumptions robust model building, understanding how and when non-neoclassical behavior is best practice, why the assumption of smart decision-makers is best to understand and explain our economies and societies, and under what conditions individuals can make the best possible choices for themselves and society at large. Additional sections cover when and how efficiency is achieved, why inefficiencies can persist, when and how consumer welfare is maximized, and what benchmarks should be used to determine efficiency and rationality.

Handbook of Production Economics
Handbook of Production Economics

Author: Subhash C. Ray

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-06-02

Total Pages: 1797

ISBN-13: 9811034559

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This three-volume handbook includes state-of-the-art surveys in different areas of neoclassical production economics. Volumes 1 and 2 cover theoretical and methodological issues only. Volume 3 includes surveys of empirical applications in different areas like manufacturing, agriculture, banking, energy and environment, and so forth.

MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS AND FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING
MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS AND FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING

Author: M. KASI REDDY

Publisher: PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.

Published: 2007-12-24

Total Pages: 596

ISBN-13: 9788120333215

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This text presents an accessible introduction to techniques and applications of economic analysis and financial accounting as a method for approaching real-life business problems for managerial decision making in a logical manner. It focusses on the essential skills needed to formulate business policies that help gain a competitive edge in today’s work environment. The book discusses the basic concepts, terminology, and methods that eventually allow students to interpret, analyse, and evaluate actual corporate financial statements. It covers the major areas of managerial economics and financial accounting such as the theory of the firm, the demand theory and forecasting, the production and cost theory and estimation, the market structure and pricing, investment analysis, accountancy, and different forms of business organisations. The book includes numerous examples, problems, self-assessment tests, as well as review questions at the end of each chapter to aid in working out solutions to business problems. The book will be particularly suitable for courses in Managerial Economics and Financial Accounting as part of an engineering degree education at undergraduate level where the students have no previous back-ground in economic and financial analysis. It will also be immensely useful for M.B.A., M.Com. and C.A. students, business exe-cutives, and administrators who need to learn the application of economic theory to realistic business situations.