Comparative Statics, tracking an optimal or equilibrium value as an exogenous variable changes, ceteris paribus, is the heart of economic analysis. By building models and analyzing the comparative ...

This is a non-standard, but fun and interesting optimization problem. While standing on the shore, given top running and swimming speeds and the location of a struggling swimmer in x and y coordinates ...

Jim Chappelow is an independent consulting economist with over 13 years of experience in economic development, research, teaching, forecasting, and consulting. David Kindness is a Certified Public ...

Static analysis has established itself as a "must-have" for the verification of critical software. Notably, it can find problems that are hard to uncover by testing, such as concurrency issues and ...