International economics

 This book addresses the causes and consequences of the international financial crisis of 2008.

The term rust belt has rarely been associated with developing countries.

Originally published in 1999, this volume integrates several streams of research on the antecedents of innovation to test a model of individual innovative behavior in a high technology product development organization.

Although domestic law plays an important role in investment treaty arbitration, this issue is little discussed or analysed.

Reliance on opportunism is a high-risk strategy in global business, yet many companies operate this way, often acting on limited amounts of information.

This volume examines the recent advance of neoliberalism.

The Oil Trading Manual (OTM) provides a unique and comprehensive reference source to the latest developments in the structure and conduct of the international oil markets including:- Physical characteristics and refining- Oil pricing arrangements- Physical oil markets- Forward and futures contracts- Options and swaps- Operations and logistics- Accounting and taxation- Controlling financial risk- Legal and regulatory controlOTM provides a unique and comprehensive reference source to the structure and conduct of the international oil markets.

The Move to the Market?

The book considers the determinants of the regional distribution of foreign manufacturing investment in the UK.

The object of this volume, drawn from the papers of an international trade conference, is to explore the reasons for changes in the patterns of exports and imports and the roles of major groups of countries in trade.

The partnership between India and Taiwan is situated in a virtual maze of complex political factors.

The perception of Central Asia and its place in the world has come to be shaped by its large oil and gas reserves.

The legendary overland silk road was not the only way to reach Asia for ancient travelers from the Mediterranean.

Due to the financialization of housing in today's market, housing risks are increasingly becoming financial risks.

No antitrust case in recent history has attracted as much public attention as U.

Based on a major international research project undertaken by The Institute for East West Studies, this book provides the first comprehensive analysis of an important, but little explored, feature of post-Cold War Europe: the emergence of subregional cooperation in areas such as the Barents, the Baltic Sea, Central Europe and the Black Sea.

This book explores the various issues that characterise the African mining sector, drawing examples from different African countries and regional organisations.

This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of unbundling and, in particular, ownership unbundling policies from the perspective of international economic law.

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This book provides a comprehensive overview of Russia's difficult economic transition from a command economy since the early 1990s.

Using the tools of economics, this book analyses how religion affects decisions and outcomes in a wide range of areas, including education, employment, family size, entry into cohabitation and formal marriage, the choice of spouse and divorce.

This original and panoramic book proposes that the underlying forces of demography and globalisation will shortly reverse three multi-decade global trends - it will raise inflation and interest rates, but lead to a pullback in inequality.

This critical account of the fair trade movement explores the vast gap between the rhetoric of fair trade and its practical results for poor countries, particularly those of Africa.

Although a State's treatment of foreign investors has long been regulated by international law, it is only recently that international investment law has emerged as an independent discipline in its own right.

Trade impacts on the lives of all global citizens, influencing the range of commodities available for consumption and where those commodities are produced.

This book, originally published in 1993, develops for the US automobile industry a demand-supply model which incorporates both wholesale and retail sectors and which allows strategic pricing behaviour of US and Japanese producers to be internally determined and its effects on market behaviour and national welfare analyzed.

This book, first published in 1905, examines the encroachment of monopoly upon the principle of competition in the industrialised world.

This book provides perspectives on the relevance of European Studies as a disciplinary category for the Asian region.

After the 1978 Economic Reform, China's economic development has been on a fast track ever since.

This book examines the growing interaction between private enterprises and public officials to challenge foreign trade barriers.

A rich, contextual analysis of the politics that inhibit the adoption of liberalizing reforms in Indonesia''s infrastructure sector.

This book, first published in 1930 and reissued in 1968, treats a group of problems arising when competition is either precluded or limited.

This book revisits the forgotten history of the 'European Dependency School' in the 1970s and 1980s, explores core-periphery relations in the European integration process and the crises of the contemporary European Union from a dependency perspective, and draws lessons for alternative development paths.

Acting as a Sorcerer's Apprentice, the West incorporated 1.

In the abstract, training is seen as valuable by most people in business and industry.

Following the agreement made by Prime Minister David Cameron with the EU on 18-19 February 2016, the day for the referendum for the UK to remain in or leave the EU is set for 23 June 2016.

Indian Tourism brings together leading experts from all over the world to assess the challenges and opportunities of the tourism sector in India and its correlation to the country's economic performance and prospects.

We are bombarded with economic numbers: unemployment, retail sales, inflation, GDP-the list goes on and on.

The literature on international economics has become excessively specialized.

The book contains selected papers presented at two international Euro-Asia research conferences held in Nantes and Poitiers, France, in 1994 and 1995.

New insights into what makes people happy and how policymakers can foster greater satisfaction for allDuring the past forty years, thousands of studies have been carried out on the subject of happiness.

Managing Cultural Heritage explores managerial and governance issues within the cultural heritage sector, with particular regard to the ecomuseum.

This book focuses on issues that are relevant for the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership.

The book examines how the interests of the member states, which provide the primary driving force for developments in European integration, are internalised and addressed by the law of the European Union.

This book seeks offers accounts of the ways in which Chinese engagement with Latin America will shape the regional and global order with impacts for development, peace, and equity.

This book is a holistic impact study, replete with real-world examples, of digital transformation enhancing businesses and influencing managers' thinking.