Much of the literature on time inconsistency has studied the external commitment devices that individuals use to address their self-control problems: tying oneself to the mast, staying away from temptation, holding illiquid assets, or "asking controls" from others. This paper, by contrast,...

We consider an economic system composed of interacting potential adopters of a technology. We build a model of interindividual influence effects in which part of the links can be negative, in a context of bounded rational choice. The article shows how the sole relationships topology on a network...

Bilogical diversity is an imporant naurel asset for Malaysia. This paper provides an overview of some of the key issues and challlnges facing Malaysia in the management of biodiversity. It examines three broad areas pertaining to biodiversity management: bioprospecting (the search for...

The aim of this paper is to set the foundation of an approach of the diffusion-adoption problem of an innovation or a technological standard, based on the building of influence matrixes. This means that agents are to be considered as participating in social networks that provide the support and...

Bilogical diversity is an imporant naurel asset for Malaysia. This paper provides an overview of some of the key issues and challlnges facing Malaysia in the management of biodiversity. It examines three broad areas pertaining to biodiversity management: bioprospecting (the search for...

Privately, the most profitable human use of biomass is widespread monoculture, which creates large target hosts that invite potentially lethal pathogens. In analyzing the tradeoffs, I explain how the famous formula for ecological entropy, H'= -E qj log qj, can be given a mathematically rigorous...

In this paper we analyse the efficiency of the Spanish Police Service using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The analysis concentrates on the police activities related to the solving of crimes. The theoretical and empirical study of the policy production function under this dimension leads us to...