International economics

Concern over conglomerate mergers increased dramatically in the latter part of the twentieth century.

This book focuses on the key determinants of China's sustainable development in the general context of globalization from an environmental perspective.

With the rapid development of China and India as new economic powers in global competition, an obvious question is whether these emerging economies are great opportunities or threats.

This volume is the result of the 2012 International Economic Association's series of roundtables on the theme of Industrial Policy.

This book analyses actual and potential normative (whether legislative or contractual) conflicts and complex transnational disputes related to state-controlled enterprises (SCEs) operations and how they are interwoven with the problem of foreign direct investment.

This is a statistical handbook of data about COMECON, the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance whose members include Bulgaria, CSSR, GDR, Hungary, Poland, Romania and the USSR.

China Development Research Foundation is one of the leading economic think tanks in China, where many of the details of China's economic reform have been formulated.

This volume examines the main factors for developing country trade performance in the last thirty years, their own trade policies, market access issues they face, and their increasingly more effective participation in the WTO and the Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations.

Using 18 new cases this book shows that in the past companies did not manage labour or customers as long as they did not need to.

This book is a codification of the principles and rules relating to the prosecution of investment claims.

The economies of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region are in dire need of substantial institutional reform to improve their growth performance so as to create enough jobs for millions of entrants into their respective job markets, and to fight poverty and income inequality.

Aligning global governance to the challenges of sustainability is one of the most urgent international issues to be addressed.

This book examines the extent of free trade within the EEC and attempts to establish the conditions under which a State may operate in the Market through the medium of the undertakings which it controls.

Africa welcomes business investment and offers some of the world's highest returns and impactsAfrica has tremendous economic potential and offers rewarding opportunities for global businesses looking for new markets and long-term investments with favorable returns.

Die EU-Osterweiterung hat zu einer veränderten Arbeitsteilung in Europa und weltweit geführt.

A survey of fiscal policy, monetary policy and labour markets in the European Monetary Union.

The launch of the Euro has already had profound effects on both European economies and societies - but it is also of huge importance for the international community as a whole.

German economic performance has astonished the world.

In a world grappling with resource depletion and environmental degradation, this work empowers readers to foster sustainable urban environments, while promoting a deeper understanding of the intricate relationship between new technologies and cutting-edge economic theory.

The world trading envionment changed dramatically in the 1980s.

Malaysia's 40-year strategy of 'poverty eradication' has met with a great deal of success, yet has caused controversy for its links to ethnically-oriented social restructuring.

Originally published in 1994 this book concerns successful implementation of radical, technological innovations within business organizations.

This book provides an up-to-date series of advanced chapters on applied financial econometric techniques pertaining the various fields of commodities finance, mathematics & stochastics, international macroeconomics and financial econometrics.

In the world's developing countries, foreign investment in natural resources brings into contact competing interests that are often characterised by unequal balances of negotiating power - from multinational corporations and host governments, through to the local people affected by the influx of foreign investment.

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Our world is suffering from economic gigantism.

What Hedge Funds Do provides a needed complement to journalistic accounts of the hedge fund industry, to deepen the understanding of non-specialist readers such as policymakers, journalists, and individual investors.

Service activities are at the heart of a major economic revolution taking place all around us.

Monnet analyzes monetary and central bank policy during the mid-twentieth century through close examination of the Banque de France.

First published in 1990, this book presents an original and comprehensive overview of Australian economic thought.

Islamic Financial Economy and Islamic Banking, is a thorough, deeply conceptual, analytical and applied work in the area of epistemological foundation of Islamic world-system.

First published in 1987, this is a reissue of the first book to offer a detailed comparison of two of the foremost stock exchanges in world before 1914.

The Economics and Politics of European Integration offers a comprehensive history of European integration, from the conceptualization of a United States of Europe, to the present day.

Within the broad frame of regional research in an international perspective, the contributions of this volume present new theoretical, methodological and empirical results as well as political strategies for the following topics:- ecomomic integration in the Baltic rim,- innovation and regional growth,- economic integration, trade and migration,- transport infrastructure and the regions.

This book offers a comprehensive and insightful reflection on David Ricardo's ingenious theory of international trade.

This book offers an exciting overview of how the investor-state dispute settlement mechanism currently deals with allegations and/or evidence of fraud and corruption.

This book analyses the current state and potential of economic and financial integration in South Asia, which has emerged as one of the most dynamic regions of the world.

The economic literature on international migration interests policymakers as well as academics throughout the social sciences.

In this book, originally published in 1936, the author charts the sequence of events which converted him from an advocate of the restoration of the gold standard to a convinced opponent.

The greatest success of Chinese enterprise reform has been the creation of market competition.

This book presents a systematic review of the literature on the foreign expansion decisions of multinational banks (MNBs).

This book is an introduction to the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), the economic community founded by Southeast Asian nations.

This is the first book to apply multimedia tools to economic and business storytelling.

Protection is a persistent feature of economic policy in developed and developing countries alike.

In this edited collection, Joseph Stiglitz and Martin Guzman present a series of studies on contemporary macroeconomic issues.

Geographic proximity has ensured strong linkages between the United States and Latin America and the Caribbean, based on diverse U.

Today's dynamic and uncertain environment has contributed to the changing nature of markets.