Macroeconomics

This book provides a comprehensive review of income inequality issues in the OECD in a cross-country setting.

China has achieved remarkable economic success in the past three decades and has become the second-largest economy in the world after the United States.

This book addresses the topical issue of whether the current environment in the US and other major countries, where quantitative easing is used to boost the economy, is conducive to the emergence of hyperinflation.

This is the first systematic source which tries to explain how and why the 233-year old and the World's oldest merchant bank went into bankruptcy in a few days.

The economic reforms sweeping China have excited the world, attracting many companies around the globe to tap into the huge economic potential of the China market.

This volume is a collection of classical and recent empirical studies of currency options and their implications for issues of exchange rate economics, such as exchange rate risk premium, volatility, market expectations, and credibility of exchange rate regimes.

Over 250 Princeton alumni and friends from 17 countries and from classes spanning a 66-year period attended the Conference.

This book presents an analysis of consumption patterns in the OECD (rich) and LDC (poor) countries using recent data (1950-1998) and econometric methodology for a number of broadly aggregated consumer goods.

This book studies the actual financial phenomena underlying the evaluation of financial derivatives, which is today virtually identified with and even replaced by the study of the mathematical aspects of stochastic calculus as a model for such phenomena.

China is now facing the challenge of designing and carrying out new reforms of its taxation system.

Hong Kong's reunification with China on July 1, 1997 after 156 years of British rule was a historic event of worldwide significance.

The Asian financial crisis has grown and spread.

This book provides an intensive review of the economic competitiveness of the Singapore economy and identifies the strategies which will allow the economy to retain its competitive advantage in an increasingly globalised economic environment in future years.

1997 saw a major reform in China which signaled the move away from its traditional economy, when Jiang Zemin called off the debate on public versus private ownership.

This book is a compilation of joint papers written by the staff and students of the Nanyang Business School in Singapore.

This book extends research in consumption economics by identifying similarities and differences in consumption patterns in a large number of countries, both developed and less developed.

Policies affecting resource allocation across tradable sectors and those affecting the incentives to produce tradable activities are key determinants of macroeconomic balance and growth.

This book is a compilation of papers written jointly by the staff and students of the Applied Economics Division of the Nanyang Business School.

This book provides a macroeconomic analysis of the Indian economy.

Economic analysis of the industrial experiences of the newly industrialized economies in Asia is generally lacking in the literature.

This book contains papers selected from the 25th Federation of ASEAN Economic Associations Annual Meeting, hosted by the Economic Society of Singapore on 7-8 September 2000, in Singapore.

The first edition of Theory of Valuation is a collection of important papers in the field of theoretical financial economics published from 1973 to 1986, and original accompanying essays contributed by eminent researchers including Robert C Merton, Edward C Prescott, Stephen A Ross, and Joseph E Stiglitz.

This book provides a comprehensive and systematic introduction to the problem of the definition of money and investigates the gains that can be achieved by a rigorous use of microeconomic- and aggregation-theoretic foundations in the construction of monetary aggregates.

Ownership-based economics has led to the rapid development and apparent universal success of the market economy.

This volume is a collection of published and unpublished papers that the author has written over the last two decades during part of his tenure at the International Monetary Fund, The South East Asian Central Banks Research and Training Center, and Singapore Management University.

General Equilibrium Theory studies the properties and operation of free market economies.

This book provides an overview of the modern theory and empirics of business cycles.

This important book comprises insightful papers on lessons learned from some major exchange rate and monetary experiences in Asia, exchange rate crisis management in Asia and choice of exchange rate systems in Asia.

The Euro area is an extremely unique and important currency area for two reasons.

Since the Asian financial crisis of 1997-1998, there has been a deep and abiding desire on the part of Asian policy makers and opinion makers to enhance the region's economic, monetary and financial self-sufficiency - or at least to ring-fence the region against financial instability and give it a louder voice in global financial affairs.

This book describes practical techniques to formulate multiannual macroeconomic projections for developing economies.

The author of this book is the original proponent of China's exchange rate system reform announced in 2005.

The book surveys modern literature on financial aggregation and index number theory, with special emphasis on the contributions of the book's two coauthors.

This book presents the latest findings on network theory and agent-based modeling of economic and financial phenomena.

The Japanese economy has experienced a structural deflationary gap since the mid-1970s.

This book aims at assessing the potential impacts of China's macro economic, trade, exchange rate and reserve management policies for industrial structure and performance.

In the era of globalization and liberalization, the world is enjoying high growth as well as suffering from the ill-effects of unequal distribution of its economic outcomes.

This historically-based textbook on international finance and open-economy macroeconomics provides a complete course on the theory and policies that shaped our international financial system.

The book contributes to the growing literature pertaining to empirical and policy issues in international trade, foreign capital flows and issues in finance, implications for India and emerging economies related to trade and development interface, and analysis of sector level growth and development in India.

This book analyzes evolution of monetary policy in Rwanda since it was first implemented by the National Bank of Rwanda in 1964 when the bank was established.

This book develops a unified treatment of the income distribution-capital-value problems with respect to actual economies, and then gradually turns to the issues of effective demand and capitalist accumulation fluctuations from both political economy and economic policy perspectives.

This book is a collection of academic lectures given on fintech, a topic that has been written about extensively but only from a business or technological point of view.

In China, the government controls a large part of resources, such as land, energy, bank savings, and so on.

This book provides a systematic approach to analyzing macroeconomic developments, focusing on macroeconomic accounts, analysis, and the effects of selected policies on a nation's economy.

Economic and social development is and will be the main task in the long run in China, and development is the basis and key to solve the problems faced.

Triggered by the US subprime mortgage crisis in 2007, the Financial Tsunami is the most serious global financial crisis since the Great Depression.

This invaluable book is an introduction to macroeconomic theory and policy.

Much attention has been focused in recent years on the transformation of the economies of Eastern and Central Europe and the former Soviet Union.

In recent years the world economy has been undergoing drastic changes, the East Asian miracle, the financial crisis, and today, globalization and the fundamental changes associated with the "e;new economy"e;.

All managers face a business environment where international and macroeconomic phenomena matter.