According to the expectations channel, a fiscal consolidation may give rise to less contractionary, or even expansionary effects on consumption, despite a decline in current disposable income. Intuitively, people may accumulate a stock of savings in anticipation of the consolidation and may...

This paper assesses how the financial system influences the strength of the liquidity effect in a calibrated limited participation model of the monetary transmission mechanism. The model suggests that bankbased systems should be characterized by smaller liquidity effects since monetary...

Praktische Problemstellungen der Ablaufplanung sind durch die simultane Existenz multipler, häufig konfliktärer Zielsetzungen charakterisiert. Aufgrund der Komplexität derartiger Problemstellungen konnten exakte Lösungsverfahren bislang nur für wenige Spezialfälle entwickelt werden....

A bicriteria traveling salesman problem with sequence priorities / Heinz Schmitz and Sebastian Niemann -- Metaheuristics for tourist trip planning / Pieter Vansteenwegen [and others] -- Solving fuzzy multi-item economic order quantity problems via fuzzy ranking functions and particle swarm...