The County Business Patterns data published by the US Census Bureau track employment by county and industry from 1946 to the present. Two features of the data limit their usefulness to researchers in practice: (1) employment for the majority of county-industry cells is suppressed to protect...

Die entscheidungsorientierte Bewertung von Handlungsoptionen ist eine zentrale Aufgabe der Unternehmensplanung. Das vorliegende Lehrbuch widmet sich nach einem grundlegenden Einblick in die Bewertungstheorie der integrierten Ermittlung und Erklärung bewertungssubjektspezifischer Grenzpreise...

We propose a novel approach to deal with the problem of indeterminacy in Linear Rational Expectations models. The method consists of augmenting the original state space with a set of auxiliary exogenous equations to provide the adequate number of explosive roots in presence of indeterminacy. The...

A new basis for an international poverty measurement is proposed based on linear programming for specifying the least cost diet and explicit budgeting for non-food spending. This approach is superior to the World Bank’s '$-a-day' line because it is (1) clearly related to survival and well...