This paper analyzes a communication network with heterogeneous customers. We investigate priority queueing as a way to differentiate between these users. Customers join the network as long as their utility (which is a function of the queueing delay) is larger than the price of the service. We focus on the specific situation in which two types of users play a role: one type is delay-sensitive (‘...

In 1942, all Japanese were evacuated from the West Coast and incarcerated in internment camps. To investigate the long-run economic consequences of this historic episode, I exploit the fact that Hawaiian Japanese were not subject to mass internment. I find that the labor market withdrawal induced by the internment reduced the annual earnings of males by as much as nine to thirteen percent twent...

Rationality principles are the bedrock of normative theories of decision-making in biology and microeconomics, but whereas in microeconomics, consistent choice underlies the notion of utility; in biology, the assumption of consistent selective pressures justifies modelling decision mechanisms as if they were designed to maximize fitness. In either case, violations of consistency contradict expe...

This paper analyzes a communication network with heterogeneous customers. We investigate priority queueing as a way to differentiate between these users. Customers join the network as long as their utility (which is a function of the queueing delay) is larger than the price of the service. We focus on the specific situation in which two types of users play a role: one type is delay-sensitive (‘...

To date, the problem of formation financially literate behavior population is one most significant on agenda National Strategy for Improving Financial Literacy (2017-2023). Most countries, which in their socio-economic policy are based principles national strategies improving financial literacy, focus broadest segments population, assuming that each gender-age group a potential participant mark...

This paper is a critical review of and a reader’s guide to a collection of papers by Robert E. Lucas, Jr. about fruitful ways of using general equilibrium theories to understand measured economic aggregates. These beautifully written and wisely argued papers integrated macroeconomics, microeconomics, finance, and econometrics in ways that restructured big parts of macroeconomic research. 1 Arro...

The price system, the adjustment of prices to changes in market conditions, is the primary mechanism by which markets function and by which the three most basic questions get answered: what to produce, how much to produce and for whom to produce. To the behaviour of price and price system, therefore, have fundamental implications for many key issues in microeconomics and industrial organization...

Terming a specific approach to economics agent-based may appear paradoxical. Isn’t human behavior the foundation of economics and shouldn’t all economic theory be based on agents behavior in some sense? This, at least, is what conventional economic theory has been claiming since the 1970’s. In this introduction we shall argue that agent-based computational economics (ACE) allows agents and espe...