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The paper presents an extended version of the consumer choice problem. Different from the standard model, prices are not fixed but arise from Walrasian interactions of total demand and a stylized supply function for each of the goods. Three different types of evolutionary algorithms are set up...
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I study optimal monetary policy in a simple New Keynesian model with portfolio adjustment costs. Purchases of long-term debt by the central bank (quantitative easing; ‘QE') alter the average portfolio return and hence influence aggregate demand and inflation. The central bank chooses the...
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Simons̕ (1955) famous paper was one of the first to cast doubt on the validity of rational choice theory; it has been … supplemented by many more papers in the last three and a half decades. Nevertheless, rational choice theory plays a crucial role in … classical and neoclassical economic theory, which presumes a completely rational agent. The central points characterizing such …
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We study the investment behaviour of a producer maximizing the present value of his firm over an infinite time horizon and having investments bounded below by zero (irreversibility of capital) and bounded above by his current profit (capital market imperfections). In our model the interest rate,...
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We consider an assortment optimization problem where the retailer needs to choose a set of products to offer to customers from the range of available products. By choosing the assortment, which will affect customers' purchase choice, the retailer aims to obtain a high expected revenue. We study...
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