Macroeconomics

This book investigates why Austrian economists fail to apply the spontaneous order framework to cooperative relationships - such as a dynamic and evolving public sector - that might complement a thriving market.

Why does trust collapse in times of crisis?

Ageing populations are a major consideration for socio-economic development in the early twenty-first century.

Economics of Banking presents a thorough overview and analysis of the key aspects of financial intermediation necessary to understand this field.

Development Macroeconomics in Latin America and Mexico brings the attention of academics, practitioners, and policy makers to the neglected macroeconomic factors that can account for both the unsatisfactory average growth performance of Latin American and the diversity around this average.

Brazil is the most populous economy in Latin America with the second highest GDP among the emerging BRIC economies, after China, and the second per capita GDP among the BRIC economies after Russia.

The book deals with the key aspects of social and economic inequalities developed during the transition of the formerly planned European economies.

The wealth of the Central European archives, particularly in urban records, has not been fully realised by Western European historians.

For the most part, human capital theory emphasizes human cognitive development and the acquisition of knowledge and skills that enable enhanced productivity and earnings.

Both quantitative and qualitative analysis is used to review China's stock market in a book containing the latest research on China's IPO market, the 2006-07 market bubble, the development of institutional investors, the stock index futures market, stock sector performance, corporate governance of listed firms and China's growth enterprise market.

This book deals with the structural origins of economic and financial crises.

For the past 30 years international monetary economists have believed that exchange rate models cannot outperform the random walk in out-of-sample forecasting as a result of the 1983 paper written by Richard Meese and Kenneth Rogoff.

The author narrates the end of the European crisis from the June 2012 European Council summit through the bailout of Cyprus.

This volume is both a tribute to and study of the French economist Jean-Paul Fitoussi.

Financial crisis, recession and worsening inequality have long been blamed on a surplus of capital.

Operational risk is the risk of loss from inadequate or failed internal processes, people, and systems or from external events.

The industrialisation of China prompted the biggest commodity boom of modern times.

The book chronicles the Occupation Loan that was forcibly obtained by the Third Reich from the Greece in 1942-1944 and demonstrates why Greece's claim for the repayment of the loan is still valid.

Shelton investigates the conditionality regime directed at 'transforming societies' inside EU candidate states.

The demonstrations and occupations that emerged across Europe in 2011-12 struck a chord in public opinion in a way that has not been true for many years.

Japan has experienced and valiantly overcome the burst of their Bubble economy, financial crisis, lukewarm recovery, and more than a decade-long deflation and stagnation to become one of the most stable economies today.

The author analyses the implementation of the agricultural and industrial parts of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) in Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco.

The recent financial crisis has generated many structural changes within the economy.

The 2008 financial crisis has turned a spotlight on the role of financial reporting in periods of economic downturn.

Now that the 'Varieties of Capitalism' hype has passed, students of capitalist diversity are searching for new directions.

The current international financial system has created a huge gap between the wealthy and the rest.

In this book Wayne Hope analyzes the double relation between time and global capitalism.

Asian Megatrends assesses the key drivers impacting Asia over the next two decades.

James Tobin, 1981 Nobel laureate in economics, was the outstanding monetary economist among American Keynesian economists.

Turkey could be considered the most important and leading Islamic country that has implemented the Western economic model successfully mostly because of the modernization efforts since late Ottoman period.

This volume provides a pluralistic discussion from world-renowned scholars on the international aspects of the debt crisis and prospects for resolution.

Why did France, with its strong sense of national identity, want to give up the Franc for the Euro?

This volume contains country experiences explained by policy makers and studies by leading experts on causes and consequences of capital flows as well as policies to control these flows.

This book examines regional monetary cooperation as a strategy to enhance macroeconomic stability in developing countries and emerging markets.

James Buchanan (1919-2013), economist and philosopher, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1986 for his original theory of political democracy as market exchange.

The series of recent financial crises have thrown open the world of quantitative finance and financial modeling.

This study explores the prospect of the application of the basic principles of ICL into many other potential areas of social and economic policy.

Drawing on historical and contemporary evidence, this book argues that growing environmental degradation and wealth inequality are linked to how nature is exploited to create economic wealth.

Nominal yields on government debt in several countries have fallen very near their zero lower bound (ZLB), causing a liquidity trap and limiting the capacity to stimulate economic growth.

The absolute and relative performance of various asset classes is systematically related to macroeconomic trends.

Onyeiwu focuses on how events of the twenty-first century are shaping key sectors of African economies and societies.

This book highlights the contribution of language standardization to the economic rise of the West between 1600 and 1860.

Abadeer incorporates informal norms such as religion, mores, myths, taboos, codes-of-conduct, customary laws, and traditions, into the structure of formal rules (e.

This book explores the changing socio-economic and technological landscape of the 21 century and what it means.

Both quantitative and qualitative analysis is used to review China's stock market in a book containing the latest research on China's IPO market, the 2006-07 market bubble, the development of institutional investors, the stock index futures market, stock sector performance, corporate governance of listed firms and China's growth enterprise market.

(Re)Discovering University Autonomy has far reaching implications for leaders and managers, researchers, educators, practitioners, and policy makers by addressing modern challenges to university autonomy in Europe and beyond in a new and innovative way.

The income share of the top one percent of the population in the United States has increased from a little over nine percent of national income in the 1970s to 22.

This book examines the work of Milton Friedman, which is amongst the most significant in modern economics and, equally, amongst the most contentious.

What has gone wrong with economics?

Investors receive thousands of business plans, but only a few businesses receive funding.