This textbook introduces readers to essential tools, techniques and methods for intertemporal and strategic modeling in economics. It presents a variety of analytical models covering both dynamic processes and strategic interaction. Students will learn the basic mechanisms associated with the...

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...

Introduction -- The Family of Vehicle Routing Problems -- The Dial-a-Ride Problem -- Profits in the Dial-a-Ride Problem -- Supplementary Services Provided by Dial-a-Ride Systems -- Minimum Collaboration in Dial-a-Ride Problems with Additional Services -- Summary.

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I -- Chapter 2. Production Economics and Economic Efficiency (Mónica Meireles) -- Chapter 3. Data Envelopment Analysis: A Review and Synthesis (Ana S. Camanho) -- Chapter 4. Stochastic Frontier Analysis: A Review and Synthesis (Mara Madaleno) -- Part II --...

Chapter 1. Dynamics: Intertemporal Decision-Making -- Chapter 2. Games: Strategic Decision-Making -- Chapter 3. Economic Growth Models -- Chapter 4. More on Growth Dynamics: Endogenous Growth and Beyond -- Chapter 5. The Search and Matching Model -- Chapter 6. Fiscal Policy and Government...