Forward-Looking Decision Making - Dynamic Programming Models Applied to Health, Risk, Employment,

Zusatztext " Forward-Looking Decision Making provides interesting applications of the dynamic programming approach for analyzing individual decisions that balance current and future welfare. The subjects are timely and the book contains a good selection of topics! united by a common analytical theme." -John Ermisch! University of Essex Informationen zum Autor Robert E. Hall Klappentext " Forward-Looking Decision Making provides interesting applications of the dynamic programming approach for analyzing individual decisions that balance current and future welfare. The subjects are timely and the book contains a good selection of topics, united by a common analytical theme." --John Ermisch, University of Essex Zusammenfassung Individuals and families make key decisions that impact many aspects of financial stability and determine the future of the economy. These decisions involve balancing current sacrifice against future benefits. This book is about modeling this individual or family-based decision making using an optimizing dynamic programming model.

About the author

Robert E. Hall is the Robert and Carole McNeil Professor of Economics and Hoover Senior Fellow at Stanford University. He is the author of The Rational Consumer, Booms and Recessions in a Noisy Economy, and Digital Dealing.

Product details

• Authors: Robert E Hall, Robert E. Hall, Hall Robert E.
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2010
• EAN: 9780691142425
• ISBN: 978-0-691-14242-5
• No. of pages: 152
• Series: The Gorman Lectures in Economics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Optimization, Finance, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Finance / General, MATHEMATICS / Linear & Nonlinear Programming, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Econometrics, Econometrics, Econometrics and economic statistics, Finance and the finance industry, Linear programming