Chapter 1 Managing, Inducing, and Preventing Regime Shifts: A Review of the Literature -- Chapter 2 Institutional change, education and population growth: lessons from dynamic modelling -- Chapter 3 Poverty Traps and Disaster Insurance in a Bi-Level Decision Framework -- Chapter 4 Rationally...

This book presents the state of the art in the relatively new field of dynamic economic modelling with regime switches. The contributions, written by prominent scholars in the field, focus on dynamic decision problems with regime changes in underlying dynamics or objectives. Such changes can be...

Since the days of Lev Pontryagin and his associates, the discipline of Optimal Control has enjoyed a tremendous upswing - not only in terms of its mathematical foundations, but also with regard to numerous fields of application, which have given rise to highly active research areas. Few...

We demonstrate how the problem of determining the ask price for electricity swing options can be considered as a stochastic bilevel program with asymmetric information. Unlike as for financial options, there is no way for basing the pricing method on no-arbitrage arguments. Two main situations...