Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 30-09, Section: A, page: 3619. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1969.

In this dissertation I establish the common Physiocratic heritage shared by Karl Marx and Piero Sraffa. For Marx, this heritage finds expression in his second volume of Capital, Chapter Two, "The Circuit of Productive Capital", and for Sraffa, in his work, Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities, Chapter Two, "Production With a Surplus." Employing Imra Lakatos' characterization of science as a continuing research program consisting of two partitions: the negative heuristic or core and the positive heuristic or protective belt, I link the research of Sraffa and Marx to each classification. With regard to the former, both thinkers acknowledged the priority of physical surplus within the ambit of political economic regard. The latter division, the positive heuristic, concerns the delineation of these logical concepts, particularly relative price, which focus attention upon the process of surplus formation. In Sraffa's hands, the standard commodity expresses the valuation of this surplus in the face of natural changes in distribution rates and various labor - material input compositions among industries. Here, Sraffa has achieved the goal of a consistent picture of surplus along the lines of the positive heuristic while likewise solving Marx's problem of discovering a mechanism whereby uniform surplus is related to uniform profit. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 46-04, Section: A, page: 1055. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1985.

The mathematical theory of chaos is shown to be a logical step in the evolution of economic equilibrium theory. The mathematics and intuition of chaos is developed in some detail, and its use in the economic literature reviewed. / The chaotic, perfect foresight, overlapping generations model of Grandmont (1985) is extended to include a financial sector, and to explore the implications of money as a medium of exchange. Under different conditions, unique stable equilibria, periodic equilibria (cycles), and aperiodic equilbria are shown to exist. Unlike the Grandmont model, which explored money only as a store of value, this model is not dichotomous. Central bank money supply policy is shown to affect the real sector equilibrium, but in unpredictable ways. / The visual inspection of autocorrelations, the estimation of the largest Lyapunov exponent, and the correlation dimension are all explored as empirical tests for chaos in economic series. These tests are applied to 12 quarterly economic series with mixed results. Furthermore, through the examination of model data, the tests are shown to be sensitive to pre-conditioning methods, initial conditions, and additive white noise. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 50-08, Section: A, page: 2602. / Major Professor: George Macesich. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1989.

Economic forecasts are needed in order to gain knowledge about future trends and events that are crucial for current decision making regarding the economy. There are no known models for forecasting the Jordanian economy. The purpose of this thesis is to design a forecasting model for the Jordanian economy; to forecast gross national product (GNP), gross domestic product (GDP), consumer price index (CPI), consumption, investment, export, import, money demand, exchange rate, change in inventory, employment level, and government expenditure. / Two methods of forecasting are used. One is an econometric model; while the other is the Box-Jenkins method. After each method was independently used, a composite forecast was built that relied equally upon each of the independent models. The composite forecast performed better than either the Box-Jenkins model or the econometric model in the major variables of GNP, GDP, CPI, and employment. The average ex-post forecasts were comparable to the best forecasts of the other two models for private consumption, export, import, exchange rate, and change in inventory. Finally, the composite forecast is preferred to other methods of forecasting because the Box-Jenkins model over-forecasts most of the variables while the econometric model under-forecasts most of the variables. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 50-11, Section: A, page: 3700. / Major Professor: Joan Haworth. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1989.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 38-04, Section: A, page: 2268. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1976.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 37-07, Section: A, page: 4518. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1976.

This dissertation provides an empirical analysis of the theory of regulatory capture. Distinction is made between simpler perceptions of the occurrence of regulation, and the theory of regulation presented by Sam Peltzman. The basic Peltzman thesis is that regulation is determined by a rational political support maximizing legislator. The focus of this study is on investigating the accuracy of Peltzman' s theory. To date, there does not exist a good empirical model of regulatory capture which can be used to test this theory in a broad array of case settings. A principal feature of this dissertation is the development of such a general model. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 1983. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Economics. / Thesis advisor:

This dissertation consists of three essays studying economic agents making decisions under uncertainty. I introduce and study two non-standard choice models which relax different aspects of the standard model. The first essay models an agent who may be optimistic. Theories of optimism typically hypothesize that optimism is driven by agents changing their beliefs, or view of the world. I hypothesize that agents maintain their view of the world, but form optimistic beliefs by distorting the information used to update beliefs in a motivated way. I behaviorally identify the (possibly distorted) information used to update beliefs and provide a novel behavioral definition of optimism that alters Dynamic Consistency to account for both the distorted information and the optimistic nature of the distortion. The second essay models an agent who may imperfectly understand acts---mappings from states to outcomes. Given an act, I model coarse understanding using partitions of the state space: for each cell of the partition, the agent knows the set of outcomes that she could receive if the true state lies in that cell, but within each cell she is unable to match states with outcomes. A key feature of the model is that the agent may understand different acts using different partitions, which captures the idea that the structure of an act can affect the agent's understanding. This allows us to differentiate limited understanding of acts from coarse contingencies and ambiguity aversion, both related phenomena, using only static choice of acts. Our main results axiomatically characterize this model and uniquely identify the partitions used to understand acts. The third essay applies the coarse understanding model to a standard auction design setting, where bidders may imperfectly understand how the allocation and payments depend on the bid profile. The main result shows that it is optimal for the auctioneer to design the auction so that bidders fully understand their win probability and payment when truthfully revealing their type. This offers another point of contrast with the ambiguity literature, where it is optimal for the auctioneer to design the auction so that each bidder's payoff is independent of other bidders' bids.

稿本 / 論文(碩士)--香港中文大學硏究院哲學部,1992. / 參考文獻: leaves 131-134 / 李一帆. / 引論 --- p.i / Chapter 第I章 --- 量子力學的哥本哈根詮釋 / Chapter §1.1 --- 概述 --- p.1 / Chapter §1.2 --- 動力學 --- p.3 / Chapter §1.3 --- 波粒二象性與互補原理 --- p.6 / Chapter §1.4 --- 概率解釋 --- p.10 / Chapter §1.5 --- 波包約化 --- p.13 / Chapter §1.6 --- 測不準原理 --- p.16 / Chapter §1.7 --- 隱變量的不可能性 --- p.21 / Chapter § 1.8 --- Schrodinger的貓 --- p.24 / Chapter §1.9 --- EPR之謎 --- p.27 / Chapter 第II章 --- Popper對量子力學的重新解釋 / Chapter §2.1 --- 概述 --- p.31 / Chapter §2.2 --- 理解危機 --- p.35 / Chapter §2.21 --- 主觀主義 --- p.36 / Chapter §2.22 --- 工具論 --- p.3 / Chapter §2.3 --- 概率的傾向解釋 --- p.41 / Chapter §2.31 --- 統計性的量子論 --- p.41 / Chapter §2.32 --- 概率就是傾向 --- p.42 / Chapter §2.33 --- 傾向是實在的物理性質 --- p.45 / Chapter §2.4 --- 「波包約化」是概率現象 --- p.48 / Chapter §2.5 --- 只有「波」、「粒」二象 --- p.52 / Chapter §2.51 --- 「波粒二象性」與「常態人」 --- p.53 / Chapter §2.52 --- 再論「雙狹縫實驗」 --- p.54 / Chapter §2.6 --- 測不準關係的統計解釋 --- p.56 / Chapter §2.61 --- 散離關係 --- p.57 / Chapter §2.62 --- 「測量」與「預測」 --- p.60 / Chapter §2.63 --- 過去的測量 --- p.63 / Chapter §2.64 --- 一個不對稱的論証 --- p.65 / Chapter §2.65 --- 一個決定性的論証 --- p.66 / Chapter §2.7 --- 宇宙論 --- p.68 / Chapter §2.71 --- 量子論的世界圖像 --- p.69 / Chapter §2.72 --- 研究網領 --- p.73 / Chapter 第III章 --- 評Popper對量子論的詮釋 / Chapter §3.1 --- 概述 --- p.78 / Chapter §3.2 --- 「不確定性」與「散離關係」 --- p.79 / Chapter §3.21 --- 屹立不倒的「不確定性」 --- p.80 / Chapter §3.22 --- 散離關係的謬誤 --- p.88 / Chapter §3.3 --- 與「傾向」道別 --- p.95 / Chapter §3.31 --- 沒有「傾向」的量子論 --- p.96 / Chapter §3.32 --- 等價描述 --- p.101 / Chapter §3.33 --- 並非物理性質 --- p.106 / Chapter §3.34 --- 空洞的「硏究綱領」 --- p.109 / Chapter 附錄 --- 量子論的誕生及初步發展 --- p.113 / 註釋 --- p.123 / 參考書目 --- p.131

by Tse Siu-Keung. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong. / Bibliography: leaves 47-48.