Mathematical Modelling in Economics: Essays in Honor of Wolfgang Eichhorn

Front Matter....Pages I-XXVII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Constituent-Sensitive Public Fund Sharing....Pages 3-10
A Production Function for Scientific Interaction....Pages 11-17
An Approximation Method for Evolutions of Exchange Economies Making the Evolving Equilibrium Set Nice....Pages 18-34
Samuelson’s “Shibboleth” Revisited: Proportional Budgeting Among Agents and Rank-Two Demand Systems....Pages 35-46
Connections between Taxation, Wage Rate and the Affection to Leisure....Pages 47-55
Social Preferences as Optimal Compromises....Pages 56-64
An Alternative Characterization of Paretian Generalized Median Social Welfare Functions....Pages 65-74
Tax Deductibility of Economic Depreciation to Ensure Invariant Valuations: The Johansson-Samuelson Theorem Reconsidered....Pages 75-83
Workers’ Optimal Shares and Tax Rates in a Neo-Classical Model of Distribution and Wealth....Pages 84-94
Closed-Form Solutions of General Intertemporal Consumption-Maximization Models....Pages 95-109
Modelling Product Differentiation: An Application of the Theory of Functional Equations....Pages 110-120
Financing of Public Goods by Pigouvian Taxes....Pages 121-129
Stochastic Interpretation of the Cornfield-Leontief Multiplier Process....Pages 130-141
Nonparametric Tests for Cost Constrained Technologies....Pages 142-148
Strange Addictive Behaviour: Periodic and Chaotic Binges....Pages 149-162
How to Achieve Consistent Paired Ratio Comparisons....Pages 163-176
Rights and Game Forms, Types of Preference Orderings, and Pareto Inefficiency....Pages 177-187
On the Compatibility of Generalized Hicks and Wage-Output-Neutral Technical Progress....Pages 189-193
Growth Models in Comparison....Pages 194-206
Aggregation and Graphical Representation of Input-Output Tables....Pages 207-220
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Just Intergenerational Resource Sharing: An Axiomatic Approach....Pages 221-231
Robust Assessment of Preference Functions....Pages 232-242
Bounds for the Frobenius Root of Non-Negative Matrices and an Economic Application....Pages 243-248
The Dependence of the Price Level on the Expansion of the Money Supply in Closed Economies....Pages 249-259
Income Tax Progression and Inequality Reduction....Pages 260-270
Different Economic Theories with the Same Formal Structure: Risk, Income Inequality, Information Structures, etc.....Pages 271-277
Endowment Changes in Economic Equilibrium: The Dutch Disease Revisited....Pages 278-287
Efficiency Measures and Input Aggregation....Pages 288-294
Fundamental Properties of a Surplus Function....Pages 295-302
Factor Augmenting Representations of Technological Progress....Pages 303-311
The Ghost and the Machine....Pages 312-322
The Central Role of Efficiency in Inequality and Welfare Measurement Theory....Pages 323-331
Front Matter....Pages 333-333
Forecasting the Development of a German Building Society — Different Methods of Mathematical Approach and Computer Simulation....Pages 335-344
An Approach to Optimality Conditions in Vector and Scalar Optimization....Pages 345-358
Oligopolies and Aggregate Market Power....Pages 359-369
Alternatives for the Traditional Overhead Cost Allocation....Pages 370-381
Deterministic Dynamic Multi-Stage Uncapacitated Lot-Sizing Problems....Pages 382-391
Product Positioning Based on Knowledge-Oriented Support: A Logical Framework....Pages 392-407
Computation of Optimal Dodge Sampling Plans in Restricted Classes according to the Minimax Regret Criterion....Pages 408-413
Global Optimization and the Geometric Complementarity Problem....Pages 414-422
Front Matter....Pages 333-333
A Heuristic for Multi-Product, Multi-Period, Single-Level Batch Production....Pages 423-433
The Domain of Monotonicity and Concavity of the Transcendental Logarithmic Unit Cost Function....Pages 434-445
Frontier Tales: DEA and FDH....Pages 446-457
The Ecological Disaster of Bitterfeld and Chicken Games....Pages 458-463
Some Remarks on Relational Input-Output-Models....Pages 464-474
A Stopping Problem....Pages 475-484
Front Matter....Pages 485-485
Share Economy: What is the Meaning of “Marginal Revenue Equals Marginal Labor Cost” in a Stochastic Model?....Pages 487-493
Symmetric Means and the Expected Utility Theorem....Pages 494-505
The Design and Implementation of a German Stock Price Research Index (Deutscher Aktien-Forschungsindex DAFOX)....Pages 506-519
On the Rating of Excess of Loss Reinsurance Treaties with Reinstatement....Pages 520-529
The Financial Sector in Systems of National Accounts....Pages 530-536
Modelling Optimal Return of Premiums in Health Insurance....Pages 537-547
J. Wolfowitz’s Method for Constructing Sequential Minimax Estimators....Pages 548-561
On the Importance of Mathematical Models and Methods to the Insurance Business....Pages 562-575
Canonical Correlations in a Two-Blocks LISREL Model....Pages 576-584
On the Influence of Mathematics and Informatics on the Modern Insurance Industry....Pages 585-591
Intertemporal Diversification under the Constraint of Withdrawls or Additional Deposits....Pages 592-600
Front Matter....Pages 601-601
The Economic Impact of Environmental Regulation: An AGE Analysis under Alternative Treatments of Technical Change....Pages 603-615
The Social Market Economy — Present and Future....Pages 616-621
Financial Deregulation and Macroeconomic Stabilization Rules....Pages 622-631
Front Matter....Pages 601-601
A Problem of the Transition from a Planned to a Market Economy: Should Firms Be Subsidized in Order to Avoid Their Bankrupcy?....Pages 632-649
The Monetary Policy of the Deutsche Bundesbank and the German Money Market....Pages 650-664
Models in Scientific Economics — Domain of Entities and Approximation to Reality....Pages 665-672
Experimental Economics....Pages 673-679
Models and Methods....Pages 680-690
On Reasonable Demands for Avoidance and Recycling Regulations....Pages 691-700
The Downward Spiral....Pages 701-713