This book surveys how economists engage with knowledge and beliefs in various fields of economic analysis, such as general equilibrium theory, decision theory, game theory, experimental economics, evolutionary theory of the firm, financial markets and the history of economic thought

Part 1: Introduction: CGE and its contribution to the policy debate -- Chapter 1. Introduction/Overview -- Chapter 2. Contribution of CGE modelling in international and national policy debate -- Part 2: Equations and data, and closures for historical, decomposition, baseline and policy...

Methodology and Modelling -- Globarlisation and the Environment from a Development Perspective -- Trade and Environmental Policy Instruments and Reforms -- Empirical Modelling of Trade and the Environment -- Input-Based Pollution Estimates for Environmental Assessment in Developing Countries --...

In the area of dynamic economics, David Cass's work has spawned a number of important lines of research, including the study of dynamic general equilibrium theory, the concept of sunspot equilibria, and general equilibrium theory when markets are incomplete. Based on these contributions, this...

Competition and efficiency is at the core of economic theory. This volume collects papers of leading scholars, which extend the conventional general equilibrium model in important ways: Efficiency and price regulation are studied when markets are incomplete and existence of equilibria in such...

This monograph presents a general equilibrium methodology for microeconomic policy analysis. It is intended to serve as an alternative to the now classical, axiomatic general equilibrium theory as exposited in Debreu`s Theory of Value (1959) or Arrow and Hahn`s General Competitive Analysis...

The distinguished contributors in this volume provide a variety of essays, which are written in honor of Emmanuel Drandakis. These essays fall into four uniform areas of economics: economic growth, general equilibrium, labor economics and game theory and applications. The editors focus on a...