Foreword -- 1 Introduction -- 2 An Overview of General Equilibrium Theory -- 3 A simple General Equilibrium Model -- 4 A General Equilibrium Model with a Government Sector -- 5 Further Extension of the Model: External Sector, Labor Market and Consumption Technology -- 6 Data Base and Model...

Health care is a very important component of the American economy. The United States Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) put the 2008 direct health care expenditures at about $2.34 trillion, or about 16.2 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP), or an average of...

Introduction: Insurance and its Economic Role -- Risk: Measurement, Perception, and Management.- Insurance Demand I: Decisions under Risk without Diversification Possibilities.- Insurance Demand II: Decisions under Risk with Diversification Possibilities.- The Insurance Company and its Insurance...

Preface -- 1 Real Estate Investing After the Fall -- 2 Real Estate Finance: Notes, Mortgages, and Payment Structures -- 3 Finance and Real Estate Valuation -- 4 Real Estate Valuation -- 5 The Anatomy of a Lease -- 6 Risk Analysis -- 7 Taxation in Investment Real Estate -- 8 Investing in...

Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Demand, Technology, and the Theory of the Firm -- Chapter 3 Introductory Game Theory and Economic Information -- Chapter 4 Behavioral Economics -- Chapter 5 Perfect Competition and Market Imperfections -- Chapter 6 Monopoly and Monopolistic Competition --...

1 Introduction -- Part I: Economics - What Is It About and How Does It Relate to the Natural Environment? - 2 The Fundamental Problem -- 3 The Economic Approach -- 4 Integration of the Natural Environment: Socially Undesirable Utilization of Natural Goods -- 5 Summary to Part I and Looking...

Part I: Introduction to the Economics of Tourism -- 1 Definitions and Key Concepts -- 2 The Tourism Sector in the Economy -- 3 The Economics of Tourism Destinations -- Part II: The Microeconomics of Tourism -- 4 The Consumer Theory Applied to the Tourist -- 5 A Close Examination of the Consumer...

Introduction -- Linear Programming -- Multi objective Programming -- Integer Linear Programming -- Network Models -- Location Models -- Project Networks -- Maschine Scheduling -- Decision Analysis -- Multi criteria Decision Analysis -- Inventory Models -- Stochastik Processes and Markov Chains...

This text provides an analysis and investigation of the most essential areas of environmental theory and policy, including international environmental problems. The approach is based on standard theoretical tools, in particular equilibrium analysis, and aims to demonstrate how economic...