03362nam 2200673 a 450 991045498480332120200520144314.01-282-15873-297866121587351-4008-2981-X10.1515/9781400829811(CKB)1000000000788550(EBL)457920(OCoLC)440772484(SSID)ssj0000143695(PQKBManifestationID)11911919(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000143695(PQKBWorkID)10119244(PQKB)11645227(MiAaPQ)EBC457920(MdBmJHUP)muse36547(DE-B1597)446886(OCoLC)979741916(DE-B1597)9781400829811(PPN)170256936(Au-PeEL)EBL457920(CaPaEBR)ebr10312552(CaONFJC)MIL215873(EXLCZ)99100000000078855020080410d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe economics of inaction[electronic resource] stochastic control models with fixed costs /Nancy L. StokeyCourse BookPrinceton Princeton University Pressc20091 online resource (321 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-691-13505-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-302) and index. Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- Part I. Mathematical Preliminaries -- Part II. Impulse Control Models -- Part III. Instantaneous Control Models -- Part IV. Aggregation -- A. Continuous Stochastic Processes -- B. Optional Stopping Theorem -- References -- IndexIn economic situations where action entails a fixed cost, inaction is the norm. Action is taken infrequently, and adjustments are large when they occur. Interest in economic models that exhibit ''lumpy'' behavior of this kind has exploded in recent years, spurred by growing evidence that it is typical in many important economic decisions, including price setting, investment, hiring, durable goods purchases, and portfolio management. In The Economics of Inaction, leading economist Nancy Stokey shows how the tools of stochastic control can be applied to dynamic problems of decision making under uncertainty when fixed costs are present. Stokey provides a self-contained, rigorous, and clear treatment of two types of models, impulse and instantaneous control. She presents the relevant results about Brownian motion and other diffusion processes, develops methods for analyzing each type of problem, and discusses applications to price setting, investment, and durable goods purchases. This authoritative book will be essential reading for graduate students and researchers in macroeconomics.Econometric modelsBrownian movementsElectronic books.Econometric models.Brownian movements.330.01/51923383.03bclStokey Nancy L103524MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454984803321The economics of inaction2449304UNINA03134nam 2200745 a 450 991080871750332120240516090909.01-283-21352-497866132135250-7391-4828-1(CKB)2550000000042640(EBL)741764(OCoLC)819638588(SSID)ssj0000540886(PQKBManifestationID)12186549(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000540886(PQKBWorkID)10492582(PQKB)10610475(SSID)ssj0001148626(PQKBManifestationID)12434588(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001148626(PQKBWorkID)11165577(PQKB)11714331(MiAaPQ)EBC741764(Au-PeEL)EBL741764(CaPaEBR)ebr10490759(CaONFJC)MIL321352(EXLCZ)99255000000004264020110401d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRewriting the return to Africa voices of francophone Caribbean women writers /Anne M. François1st ed.Lanham, Md. Lexington Books20111 online resource (147 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7391-8456-3 0-7391-4826-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- Return to Africa and the Caribbean -- Toward a Creole poetics -- Rethinking the return and writing the self -- Conclusion.<span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Rewriting the Return to Africa: Voices of Francophone Caribbean Women Writers</span><span> examines how post-colonial women writers Maryse Condé, Simone Schwarz-Bart and Myriam Warner Vieyra emerged with a new vision of the notion of origins and identity and in the process revised the myth of the return to Africa previously constructed by Négritude writers in the 1930s. Their works reveal that the rediscovery of Caribbean history and culture leads to a new awareness of hybridity in identity and culture.</span></span>Caribbean fiction (French)Women authorsHistory and criticismGuadeloupe fiction (French)Women authorsHistory and criticismReturn migration in literatureBlack peopleRace identityCultural fusion in literatureAfricaIn literatureCaribbean AreaIn literatureCaribbean fiction (French)Women authorsHistory and criticism.Guadeloupe fiction (French)Women authorsHistory and criticism.Return migration in literature.Black peopleRace identity.Cultural fusion in literature.843/.91409928709729François Anne M1671251MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808717503321Rewriting the return to Africa4033668UNINA