Economic forecasting

A practical guide to understanding economic forecasts In Inside the Crystal Ball: How to Make and Use Forecasts, UBS Chief U.

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With contributions from a wide array of economists, ecologists, and government agency professionals, Economics and Ecological Risk Assessment: Applications to Watershed Management provides a multidisciplinary approach to environmental decision-making at a watershed level.

For junior/senior undergraduates in a variety of fields such as economics, business administration, applied mathematics and statistics, and for graduate students in quantitative masters programs such as MBA and MA/MS in economics.

The essays in this Festschrift have been chosen to honour Harald Hagemann and his scientific work.

Many high net worth individuals are interested in diversifying their portfolios and investing in collectibles.

In einer zunehmend komplexen globalen Wirtschaft spielt die Rolle des Staates eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Gestaltung von Inflation und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit.

Over the last 25 years, evolutionary game theory has grown with theoretical contributions from the disciplines of mathematics, economics, computer science and biology.

First published in 1972, this book provides an important critical review on the theory of futures trading.

Every consumer in a modern economy is indirectly exposed to the work of a price reporting agency (PRA) each time they fill up their car, take a flight or switch on a light, and yet the general public is completely unaware of the existence of PRAs.

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There are thousands of mergers every year and, by some estimates, two-thirds of them either fail or fall far short of expectations.

The recent crisis in the financial markets has exposed serious flaws in management methods.

This book provides a comprehensive description of the state-of-the-art in modelling global and national economies.

Asset prices are driven by public news and information that is often dispersed among many market participants.

Before the handover to China in 1997, Hong Kong's economic growth was very strong and the unemployment rate dropped to a record low of 2.

This book uses empirically-based analytical narratives to shed light on the development of national wine markets throughout the world.

Volume 14, Advances in Business and Management Forecasting is a blind refereed serial publication.

This book is the first quantitative description of Europe's economic development at a regional level over the entire twentieth century.

The US Gulf of Mexico is one of the largest and most prolific offshore hydrocarbon basins in the world with thousands of structures installed in the region and tens of thousands of wells drilled.

Changing the Indian Economy: Renewal, Reform and Revival explores the fact that post-Modi India is witnessing unprecedented socioeconomic change, truly labeled as Modi's Mantra and his attempts to morph the Indian economic landscape.

The excessive pursuit of economic interests has resulted in severe environmental and social problems, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and inequality and disparity.

This volume, originally published in 1979, examines systematically the nature of control in both capitalist and socialist economies, develops a theoretical and applied framework which can embrace both macroeconomics and plannng and demonstates the essential unity of all forms of macroeconomic planning by the consistent application of basic economic principles.

A practical guide to understanding economic forecasts In Inside the Crystal Ball: How to Make and Use Forecasts, UBS Chief U.

Why the global recession is in danger of becoming another Great Depression, and how we can stop it When the United States stopped backing dollars with gold in 1968, the nature of money changed.

The conventional wisdom on how technology will change the future is wrong.

Reducing greenhouse gases and increasing the use of renewable energy continue to be critical goals for the power industry and electrical engineers to promote energy cost reductions.

At the time in which this book was first published in 1987, mass unemployment had emerged as the dominant, most visible, problem of the West European economies.

The behaviour of commodity prices never ceases to marvel economists, financial analysts, industry experts, and policymakers.

A gripping history of the pioneers who sought to use science to predict financial marketsThe period leading up to the Great Depression witnessed the rise of the economic forecasters, pioneers who sought to use the tools of science to predict the future, with the aim of profiting from their forecasts.

The purpose of this book is to bring together, for the first time, a description and examples of the main methods used in microsimulation modelling used in the field of income distribution analysis.

This volume is dedicated to the memory and the achievements of Professor Sir Clive Granger, economics Nobel laureate and one of the great econometricians and applied economists of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

The scientific study of complex systems has transformed a wide range of disciplines in recent years, enabling researchers in both the natural and social sciences to model and predict phenomena as diverse as earthquakes, global warming, demographic patterns, financial crises, and the failure of materials.

Over the last 25 years, evolutionary game theory has grown with theoretical contributions from the disciplines of mathematics, economics, computer science and biology.

The global financial crisis has sent shockwaves through the world's economies, and its effects have been deep and wide-reaching.

This book offers the perfect introduction to social benefit-cost analysis.

This book, first published in 1992, examines the subject of foreign exchange market efficiency and, in particular, the effectiveness of central bank intervention in the market.

This book analyses and explains the nature of the economies of small countries and territories.

Uncertain Futures considers how economic actors visualize the future and decide how to act in conditions of radical uncertainty.

First published in 1980, this compact and useful book uses the earliest volumes of government-published statistics, and with the aid of computer-generated cartography, transforms the numbers there reported into an arrondissement-by-arrondissement comparative picture of French agriculture in the mid-1830s.

Uncertain Futures considers how economic actors visualize the future and decide how to act in conditions of radical uncertainty.

This book offers the perfect introduction to social benefit-cost analysis.

Energy price rises have been amongst the biggest change that has taken place in our society over the last few decades.

This book provides an overview of Chinese RMB exchange markets and its risk management strategies.

First published in 1913, Richard Parry's Valuation and Investment Tables has since become an essential tool for students and professionals in the study and practice of valuation and appraisal.

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries own 30 percent of the world's proven oil reserves and largely depend on oil for their income.