Summary ECONOMIC MODELS Methods, Theory and Applications

Chapter 1: Methods of Modelling: Mathematical 1 Programming Topic 1: Some Unresolved Problems of Mathematical 3 Programming by Olav Bjerkholt Chapter 2: Methods of Modeling: Econometrics 21 and Adaptive Control System Topic 1: A Novel Method of Estimation Under Co-Integration 23 by Alexis Lazaridis Topic 2: Time Varying Responses of Output to Monetary 43 and Fiscal Policy by Dipak R. Basu and Alexis Lazaridis Chapter 3: Mathematical Modeling in Macroeconomics 67 Topic 1: The Advantages of Fiscal Leadership in an Economy with Independent Monetary Policies by Andrew Hughes Hallet Topic 2: Cheap-Talk Multiple Equilibria and Pareto — Improvement in an Environmental Taxation Games by Chirstophe Deissenberg and Pavel Sˇevcˇ´ık vii 69 101 viii Contents Chapter 4: Modeling Business Organization 119 Topic 1: Enterprise Modeling and Integration: Review and New Directions by Nikitas Spiros Koutsoukis Topic 2: Toward a Theory of Japanese Organizational Culture and Corporate Performance by Victoria Miroshnik 121 137 Topic 3: Health Service Management Using Goal Programming 151 by Anna-Maria Mouza Chapter 5: Modeling National Economies 171 Topic 1: Inflation Control in Central and Eastern European Countries by Fabrizio Iacone and Renzo Orsi Topic 2: Credit and Income: Co-Integration Dynamics of the US Economy by Athanasios Athanasenas