Dynamic Perspectives on Managerial Decision Making: Essays in Honor of Richard F. Hartl

Introduction.- I Economic Dynamics.- Dynamic Drug Policy: Optimally Varying the Mix of Treatment, Price-Raising Enforcement, and Primary Prevention Over Time.- Economics of Talent: Dynamics and Multiplicity of Equilibria.- Skiba Phenomena in Markov Perfect Equilibria of Asymmetric Differential Games.- A Dynamic Advertising Game with Market Growth.- Managerial distribution in a dynamic renewable resource oligopoly.- Optimal Growth with Polluting Waste and Recycling.- Handling the complexity of predator-prey systems: managerial decision making in urban economic development and sustainable harvesting.- On Optimal Harvesting in Age-Structured Populations.- Maximizing Female Labor Force Participation in a Stationary Population.- Multiplicity of balanced growth paths in an endogenous growth model with elastic labor supply.- Fiscal and Monetary Policies in a Monetary Union: Conflict or Cooperation?.- On the Optimal Trade-Off Between Fire Power and Intelligence in a Lanchester Model.- Drivers of the change in social welfare in European countries.- II Firm Management.- Organizational Nimbleness and Operational Policies: The Case of Optimal Control of Maintenance Under Uncertainty.- Safety Stocks in Centralized and Decentralized Supply Chains under Different Types of Random Yields.- Dynamic Pricing under Economic Ordering and Strategic Customers with Forward Buying and Postponement.- The effect of remanufacturability of end-of-use returns on the optimal intertemporal production decisions of a newsvendor.- Comparing modeling approaches for the multi-levelcapacitated lot-sizing and scheduling problem.- Hybrid metaheuristics for project scheduling and staffing, considering project interruptions and labor contracts.- From incomplete information to strict rankings: Methods to exploit probabilistic preference information.- The After-Effects of Fear-Inducing Public Service Announcements.- Decision Support for Strategic Disaster Management: First Release of a Wiki.- Overview of Optimization Problems in Electric Car-Sharing System Design and Management.- The golf tourist problem.- 20 years of vehicle routing in Vienna: The many challenges of the VRP solved by Richard F. Hartl.- Appendix: Achilles and the theory of games.