New Directions In Computational Economics

Author : William W. Cooper,Andrew B. Whinston
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789401107709

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New Directions in Computational Economics by William W. Cooper,Andrew B. Whinston Pdf

New Directions in Computational Economics brings together for the first time a diverse selection of papers, sharing the underlying theme of application of computing technology as a tool for achieving solutions to realistic problems in computational economics and related areas in the environmental, ecological and energy fields. Part I of the volume addresses experimental and computational issues in auction mechanisms, including a survey of recent results for sealed bid auctions. The second contribution uses neural networks as the basis for estimating bid functions for first price sealed bid auctions. Also presented is the `smart market' computational mechanism which better matches bids and offers for natural gas. Part II consists of papers that formulate and solve models of economics systems. Amman and Kendrick's paper deals with control models and the computational difficulties that result from nonconvexities. Using goal programming, Nagurney, Thore and Pan formulate spatial resource allocation models to analyze various policy issues. Thompson and Thrall next present a rigorous mathematical analysis of the relationship between efficiency and profitability. The problem of matching uncertain streams of assets and liabilities is solved using stochastic optimization techniques in the following paper in this section. Finally, Part III applies economic concepts to issues in computer science in addition to using computational techniques to solve economic models.

Author : Karl Schmedders,Kenneth L. Judd
Publisher : Newnes
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780080931784

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Handbook of Computational Economics by Karl Schmedders,Kenneth L. Judd Pdf

Handbook of Computational Economics summarizes recent advances in economic thought, revealing some of the potential offered by modern computational methods. With computational power increasing in hardware and algorithms, many economists are closing the gap between economic practice and the frontiers of computational mathematics. In their efforts to accelerate the incorporation of computational power into mainstream research, contributors to this volume update the improvements in algorithms that have sharpened econometric tools, solution methods for dynamic optimization and equilibrium models, and applications to public finance, macroeconomics, and auctions. They also cover the switch to massive parallelism in the creation of more powerful computers, with advances in the development of high-power and high-throughput computing. Much more can be done to expand the value of computational modeling in economics. In conjunction with volume one (1996) and volume two (2006), this volume offers a remarkable picture of the recent development of economics as a science as well as an exciting preview of its future potential. Samples different styles and approaches, reflecting the breadth of computational economics as practiced today Focuses on problems with few well-developed solutions in the literature of other disciplines Emphasizes the potential for increasing the value of computational modeling in economics

Author : Manfred Gilli
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789401587433

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Computational Economic Systems by Manfred Gilli Pdf

The approach to many problems in economic analysis has changed drastically with the development and dissemination of new and more efficient computational techniques. Computational Economic Systems: Models, Methods & Econometrics presents a selection of papers illustrating the use of new computational methods and computing techniques to solve economic problems. Part I of the volume consists of papers which focus on modelling economic systems, presenting computational methods to investigate the evolution of behavior of economic agents, techniques to solve complex inventory models on a parallel computer and an original approach for the construction and solution of multicriteria models involving logical conditions. Contributions to Part II concern new computational approaches to economic problems. We find an application of wavelets to outlier detection. New estimation algorithms are presented, one concerning seemingly related regression models, a second one on nonlinear rational expectation models and a third one dealing with switching GARCH estimation. Three contributions contain original approaches for the solution of nonlinear rational expectation models.

Author : Leigh Tesfatsion,Kenneth L. Judd
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 905 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780080459875

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Handbook of Computational Economics by Leigh Tesfatsion,Kenneth L. Judd Pdf

The explosive growth in computational power over the past several decades offers new tools and opportunities for economists. This handbook volume surveys recent research on Agent-based Computational Economics (ACE), the computational study of economic processes modeled as dynamic systems of interacting agents. Empirical referents for "agents" in ACE models can range from individuals or social groups with learning capabilities to physical world features with no cognitive function. Topics covered include: learning; empirical validation; network economics; social dynamics; financial markets; innovation and technological change; organizations; market design; automated markets and trading agents; political economy; social-ecological systems; computational laboratory development; and general methodological issues. *Every volume contains contributions from leading researchers *Each Handbook presents an accurate, self-contained survey of a particular topic *The series provides comprehensive and accessible surveys

Author : Clyde Holsapple,Varghese S. Jacob,H. Raghav Rao
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781461508939

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Business Modelling by Clyde Holsapple,Varghese S. Jacob,H. Raghav Rao Pdf

Business modelling is a vast arena of research and practice, which is gaining increasing important in the rapid development of e-commerce, globalization, and in particular, the movement toward global e-business. The ability to utilize advanced computing technology to model, analyse and simulate various aspects of ever-changing businesses has made a significant impact on the way businesses are designed and run these days. With the current global e-business and e-commerce initiatives, it has become important that all businesses carefully validate their business objectives, requirements, and strategies through a careful process of formal business modelling. It is important for effective enterprise decision making to have clear, concise business models that allow the extraction of critical value from business processes and specify the rules to be globally enforced. Particularly in e-business specifications, the need to be unambiguous, accurate, and complete becomes even greater, because there may be no human mediator or agent to rely on in complex or unforeseen situations. Business Modelling: Multidisciplinary Approaches - Economics, Operational, and Information Systems Perspectives, arranged in three parts, brings scholarly perspectives from various disciplines to bear on some of the critical aspects of business modeling. The first part (chapters 1-8) focuses on business modelling fundamentals and starts with a series of economics and operations research perspectives. The second part (chapters 9-19) concentrates on modelling in electronic businesses and focuses on Management Information Systems and Decision Support Systems. The third part (chapters 20-22) centers on multidisciplinary business modelling progress, in particular on the seminal work of Professor Andrew B. Whinston.

Author : National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780309107525

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New Directions for Understanding Systemic Risk by National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications Pdf

The stability of the financial system and the potential for systemic events to alter its function have long been critical issues for central bankers and researchers. Recent events suggest that older models of systemic shocks might no longer capture all of the possible paths of such disturbances or account for the increasing complexity of the financial system. To help assess these concerns, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the NRC cosponsored a conference that brought together engineers, scientists, economists, and financial market experts to promote better understanding of systemic risk in a variety of fields. The book presents an examination of tools used in ecology and engineering to study systemic collapse in those areas; a review of current trends in economic research on systemic risk, the payments system, and the market of interbank funds; and for context, descriptions of how systemic risk in the financial system affects trading activities.

Author : Samuel B. Fee,Amanda M. Holland-Minkley,Thomas E. Lombardi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319542263

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New Directions for Computing Education by Samuel B. Fee,Amanda M. Holland-Minkley,Thomas E. Lombardi Pdf

Why should every student take a computing course? What should be the content of these courses? How should they be taught, and by whom? This book addresses these questions by identifying the broader reaches of computing education, problem-solving and critical thinking as a general approach to learning. The book discusses new approaches to computing education, and considers whether the modern ubiquity of computing requires an educational approach that is inherently interdisciplinary and distinct from the traditional computer science perspective. The alternative approach that the authors advocate derives its mission from an intent to embed itself within an interdisciplinary arts and science context. An interdisciplinary approach to computing is compellingly valuable for students and educational institutions alike. Its goal is to support the educational and intellectual needs of students with interests in the entire range of academic disciplines. It capitalizes on students’ focus on career development and employers’ demand for technical, while also engaging a diverse student body that may not possess a pre-existing interest in computing for computing’s sake. This approach makes directly evident the applicability of computer science topics to real-world interdisciplinary problems beyond computing and recognizes that technical and computational abilities are essential within every discipline. The book offers a valuable resource for computer science and computing education instructors who are presently re-thinking their curricula and pedagogical approaches and are actively trying new methods in the classroom. It will also benefit graduate students considering a future of teaching in the field, as well as administrators (in both higher education and high schools) interested in becoming conversant in the discourse surrounding the future of computing education.

Author : Chen, Shu-Heng
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005-11-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781591406518

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Computational Economics: A Perspective from Computational Intelligence by Chen, Shu-Heng Pdf

"This book identifies the economic as well as financial problems that may be solved efficiently with computational methods and explains why those problems should best be solved with computational methods"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Hans M. Amman,B. Rustem,Andrew B. Whinston
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781475726442

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Computational Approaches to Economic Problems by Hans M. Amman,B. Rustem,Andrew B. Whinston Pdf

This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the first conference of the Society for Computational Economics held at ICC Institute, Austin, Texas, May 21-24, 1995. Twenty-two papers are included in this volume, devoted to applications of computational methods for the empirical analysis of economic and financial systems; the development of computing methodology, including software, related to economics and finance; and the overall impact of developments in computing. The various contributions represented in the volume indicate the growing interest in the topic due to the increased availability of computational concepts and tools and the necessity of analyzing complex decision problems. The papers in this volume are divided into four sections: Computational methods in econometrics, Computational methods in finance, Computational methods for a social environment and New computational methods.£/LIST£

Author : Reinhard Neck,Christian Richter,Peter Mooslechner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783540746843

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Quantitative Economic Policy by Reinhard Neck,Christian Richter,Peter Mooslechner Pdf

Econometric techniques and models are still being extensively used in the business of forecasting and policy advice. This book presents recent advances in the theory and applications of quantitative economic policy, with particular emphasis on fiscal and monetary policies in a European and global context. The volume honors Andrew Hughes Hallett, a pioneer and major scientist in quantitative economic policy analysis, whose contributors are among his friends and former students.

Author : British Library of Political and Economic Science at the London School of Economics
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415127831

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International Bibliography of Economics 1994 by British Library of Political and Economic Science at the London School of Economics Pdf

The IBSS is the essential tool for librarians, university departments, research institutions and any public or private institutions whose work requires access to up-to-date and comprehensive knowledge of the social sciences.

Author : Ngoc Thanh Nguyen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-12
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642368158

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Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence IX by Ngoc Thanh Nguyen Pdf

These transactions publish research in computer-based methods of computational collective intelligence (CCI) and their applications in a wide range of fields such as the semantic Web, social networks and multiagent systems. TCCI strives to cover new methodological, theoretical, and practical aspects of CCI understood as the form of intelligence that emerges from the collaboration and competition of many individuals (artificial and/or natural). The application of multiple computational intelligence technologies such as fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, neural systems, consensus theory, etc., aims to support human and other collective intelligence and to create new forms of CCI in natural and/or artificial systems. This ninth issue contains ten carefully selected and thoroughly revised contributions.

Author : Cars Hommes,Blake LeBaron
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780444641328

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Heterogeneous Agent Modeling by Cars Hommes,Blake LeBaron Pdf

Handbook of Computational Economics: Heterogeneous Agent Modeling, Volume Four, focuses on heterogeneous agent models, emphasizing recent advances in macroeconomics (including DSGE), finance, empirical validation and experiments, networks and related applications. Capturing the advances made since the publication of Volume Two (Tesfatsion & Judd, 2006), it provides high-level literature with sections devoted to Macroeconomics, Finance, Empirical Validation and Experiments, Networks, and other applications, including Innovation Diffusion in Heterogeneous Populations, Market Design and Electricity Markets, and a final section on Perspectives on Heterogeneity. Helps readers fully understand the dynamic properties of realistically rendered economic systems Emphasizes detailed specifications of structural conditions, institutional arrangements and behavioral dispositions Provides broad assessments that can lead researchers to recognize new synergies and opportunities

Author : Philip Rothman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781461551294

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Nonlinear Time Series Analysis of Economic and Financial Data by Philip Rothman Pdf

Nonlinear Time Series Analysis of Economic and Financial Data provides an examination of the flourishing interest that has developed in this area over the past decade. The constant theme throughout this work is that standard linear time series tools leave unexamined and unexploited economically significant features in frequently used data sets. The book comprises original contributions written by specialists in the field, and offers a combination of both applied and methodological papers. It will be useful to both seasoned veterans of nonlinear time series analysis and those searching for an informative panoramic look at front-line developments in the area.

Author : Gerald L. Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Algorithms
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017328571

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Computational Economics by Gerald L. Thompson Pdf