This book is the third volume of proceedings from the 19th International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik held in Würzburg, Germany, in 2024. In the context of the global trend toward digitalization, it presents the results of innovative, high-quality research in the field of information...

This book is an exploration of the ubiquity of ambiguity in decision-making under uncertainty. It presents various essays on behavioral economics and behavioral finance that draw on the theory of Black Swans (Taleb 2010), which argues for a distinction between unprecedented events in our past...

This book examines relationships between pairwise comparisons matrices. It first provides an overview of the latest theories of pairwise comparisons in decision making, discussing the pairwise comparison matrix, a fundamental tool for further investigation, as a deterministic matrix with given...

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"Climate change (CC) is currently an unquestionable phenomenon. If not stopped, it will be catastrophic for life on earth. Scientific evidence shows that human activities are the primary driver of CC tendencies since the industrial times. In this book, we present the relationship between...

"Modern macroeconomic theory is the study of dynamic general equilibrium economic models. Models are defined broadly and allow for situations where markets do not always clear and where prices do not necessarily adjust instantaneously. This text provides an introduction to the study of such...

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