Macroeconomics

This book aims to give a complete and self-contained presentation of semi- Markov models with finitely many states, in view of solving real life problems of risk management in three main fields: Finance, Insurance and Reliability providing a useful complement to our first book (Janssen and Manca (2006)) which gives a theoretical presentation of semi-Markov theory.

Introduction Some people distinguish between savings and investments, where savings are monies placed in relatively risk-free accounts with modest rewards, and where investments involve more risk and the potential for greater rewards.

One may have various reasons for compiling a volume of papers devoted to and inspired by Walras and Pareto.

Insurance and financial markets have been radically and deeply changed in the last 20 years.

Dynamic Modeling of Monetary and Fiscal Cooperation Among Nations analyzes coordination of monetary and fiscal stabilization policies between countries and currency areas using a dynamic game approach.

Productivity of inputs is an important determinant of the competitiveness of firms in national and international markets.

Most small businesses cite lack of capital is a major constraint on growth.

The Eastern Enlargement of the EU will not be complete until the new member states join the EMU.

Capital Markets, Globalization, and Economic Development consists of fourteen articles contributed by authors from Australia, Asia, Europe, South America, and the United States who provide a wide range of insights.

This book is an advanced text on the theory of forward and futures markets which aims at providing readers with a comprehensive knowledge of how prices are established and evolve in time, what optimal strategies one can expect the participants to follow, whether they pertain to arbitrage, speculation or hedging, what characterizes such markets and what major theoretical and practical differences distinguish futures from forward contracts.

Income Elasticity and Economic Development: Methods and Applications is mainly concerned with methods of estimating income elasticity.

In this unique text, Mohamed Ramady develops a framework for studying fundamental challenges to the modern Saudi Arabian economy.

The Development of Effective Securities Markets Gary Schinasi International Monetary Fund One of the more important lessons of the crisis of the 1990s-^not just the Asian Crisis-is that the performance and structure of a country's financial system is an important fundamental factor for assessing that coimtry's overall economic performance and prospects, and as a destination for investment and asset returns.

Topicality of Asian economy has refused to fade for almost four decades; if anything it has been levitating.

This book contributes fresh theoretical and empirical evidence on patterns of regional production structures, specialization, regional disparities, convergence and divergence processes and evaluation of cohesion policies in both current and future European Union (EU) member states in the context of increased integration.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of India's social and economic transformation in the decades leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic and explores both resilience and vulnerabilities in Indian society.

The UN's Net Zero goal is to limit the rise in mean global temperatures to 1.

Vietnam, along with China, stands out as a rare success story among transition economics.

When Mexico's peso crisis occurred in December 1994, all of Latin America experienced the 'tequila effect'.

Economics has become an excessively esoteric discipline.

Why are America and Britain wealthier than ever but millions of children live in poverty, neighbourhoods want for basic amenities and the middle classes fear for their families, jobs and futures?

With the start of EMU, the Eurosystem has taken over monetary policy for the 11 countries of the Euro-area.

This book demonstrates how shareholder value analysis has become a valuable instrument of strategy assessment.

Assessments of the politics of European integration in general, and monetary union in particular, are many.

This book provides a comprehensive knowledge of the Asian crisis from an economic, political and social point of view, and suggests possible scenarios which could take place in the future.

Macroeconomic adjustment and sectoral reforms have strongly modified the framework for rural development in Central America.

Economic reforms in China began in 1979 and initiated some of the most fundamental changes ever to occur in any country.

What will deregulation and globalization of financial markets mean for the future of US financial regulation?

The transformation from a closed and inward-looking economy to an active integration into the European Union is one which a number of countries are facing.

Managing the World Economy , while recognizing how much has been achieved since the start of the Industrial Revolution, challenges the view that much better results could have been attained.

In response to the largely closed-economy assumptions of most cross-national work on economic policy-making, Open States in the Global Economy offers an outside-in framework for analyzing the way in which national economic sovereignty is affected by globalization.

In characterising the Japanese way of business, Professor Okumura has made one of the most significant contributions to the study of economics.

Intertemporal macroeconomics links microeconomics and growth theory methods.

China now faces the difficult choice of whether to pursue a food self-sufficiency policy or further integrate its agriculture into the world market.

The accords and protocols that underlie the Arab and Israeli peace agreements set into place economic policies and political processes so flawed that they are bound to fail.

Both in global and European banking markets, banks and banking are undergoing fundamental changes.

Leading world scholars analyze a range of specific departures from general equilibrium theory which have significant implications for the macroeconomic analysis of both developed and developing economies.

The first book to provide an integrated treatment of financial and operating strategies to exchange rate variability.

An authoritative inside account of the origins, successes and failures of monetarism in Britain.

Industrial Applications of Carbon Nanotubes covers the current applications of carbon nanotubes in various industry sectors, from the military to visual display products, and energy harvesting and storage.

This text provides an overview of concepts, theories, and methods related to the study of household consumption.

Key metaphors in world-system analysis are profoundly spatial, but there have been few attempts to understand how space, location, and topography affect world-system organization and process.

Against the background of the globalization of private finance, the predominance of states in global affairs cannot be taken for granted.

Industry officials and government policymakers have for some time decried the lack of a framework for establishing and defending Research and Development (R&D) policies.

Restructuring economies in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and elsewhere are abandoning their hostility to foreign enterprises and adopting policies to attract international investment.

Since 1971, when the Bretton Woods gold exchange standard ended, the world has been on a fiat monetary regime, with various fiat currencies managed according to the discretion of the issuing country.

This book presents an analysis of Caribbean fiscal problems, with particular emphasis on the relationship between high levels of public expenditure and balance of payments problems.

This book examines the heroic spirit of French industrial capitalism prior to World War I, and the role certain industrialists played in ensuring the success and stability of the country's economic and political order.

The arguments over the economic policies of the Reagan Administration will continue until sufficient time has elapsed for a consensus to be possible.

Herbert Hoover, as Secretary of Commerce, and Benjamin Strong, as Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, played a critical role in the formulation of American monetary policy during the 1920s.