1. Introduction: spatial effects and the role of configuration of data -- 1.1 Objectives and approaches -- 1.2 An overview of theoretical problems -- 1.3 A sketch of the methodology -- 1.4 An outline of the book -- 1.5 Omitted topics -- 2. Theoretical Problems Motivation -- 2.1 Introduction --...

I: MODELLING METHODOLOGIES -- 1. An Integrated Market Model of Exhaustible Resource Behaviour -- 2. Optimal and Competitive Storage Rules: The Gustafson Problem Revisited -- 3. The Impact of Price Stabilisation on Producers’ Revenue and Consumers’ Expenditure -- 4. Stability of Base Products...

One: Unit Root and Fractional Integration -- 1. Testing for a Unit Root in the Presence of a Maintained Trend -- 2. Random Walks Versus Fractional Integration: Power Comparisons of Scalar and Joint Tests of the Variance-Time Function -- 3. Testing for a Random Walk: A Simulation Experiment of...

1. Economic Methodology and Econometrics -- 2. Statistical Decision Theory -- 3. Econometric Model Selection Procedures: A Survey -- 4. Set of Spherical Models -- 5. Set of More Informative Models -- 6. AVE and Acord Criteria. A New Proposal -- 7. Dynamic Models-1 -- 8. Dynamic Models-2 --...

1. Introduction to spatial statistics and data handling -- 1.1. A brief historical background -- 1.2. The principal problem of spatial statistics -- 1.3. Spatial sampling perspectives -- 1.4. Models of spatial autocorrelation -- 1.5. Towards a theory of spatial statistics -- 1.6 References --...

1. Introduction -- 2. Feedback: A Familiar Idea -- I Feedback : A New Framework -- 3. Goals -- 4. Dynamics -- 5. Uncertainty -- II Policy in a Feedback Framework -- 6. Feedback Rules -- 7. Confidence Intervals Again -- 8. Automatic Stabilizers Revisited -- III Limitations -- 9. The Choice of...

I: Methodology -- The Scientific Work of Gerhard Tintner -- Econometrics Needs a History: Two Cases of Conspicuous Neglect -- II: Planning Models -- Energy Pricing in a Welfare Framework: Issues in Equity, Efficiency and Exhaustibility -- Foreign Aid, Economic Development and Income...

I: Introduction to Control Theory: Methods and Algorithms -- 1. Developments of Control Theory in Macroeconomics -- 2. Linear Controllability: Results and Open Questions -- 3. A System Theoretic Approach to the Theory of Economic Policy -- 4. Software for Economic Optimal Control Models -- II:...