Macroeconomics

This volume focuses on the analysis and measurement of business cycles in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS).

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This book describes the complex of economic processes which sustains inflationary pressure in nations with severe inflation problems.

On October 30-31,1981, the Center for the Study of American Business and the Federal Reserve Bank of St.

A response to the pressing need to address and clarify the substantial ambiguity within current literature, this edited volume aims to deepen readers' understanding of the impact of foreign aid on development outcomes based on the latest findings in research over the past decade.

Since the beginning of the 21st century, China has been experiencing a dramatically rapid economic development.

This book covers robust optimization theory and applications in the electricity sector.

The contributors examine the conduct and consequences of national macroeconomic policy in a world of economically independent countries.

Islamic Business Finance is based on strong ethical regulations as suggested by Islamic Literature, such as the Quran and the Traditions of the Prophet of Islam, and could be considered as a subclass of the wider subject of ethical standards in business.

This thesis takes up a very acutely relevant topic: Do M&A transactions in the European insurance sector create value in the short- and long-term?

Since the turn of the 21st century, the global economy has faced several significant financial crises such as the monetary mismanagements of the EURO Zone countries struggling with sovereign debt problems, the Global Financial Crisis between 2007 and 2009 preceded by the housing market collapse, and the Quantitative Easing Policies used by the US Central Bank.

The current crisis is emerging as the most severe downturn since the Great Depression.

This title was first published in 1992: In this volume, Keun Lee has presented a throughly documented framework for understanding not only the progress and problems of China's past reform efforts, but also the measures which must be undertaken if future initiatives are to lead to more beneficial results.

First published in 1978, The Valuation of Social Cost is concerned both with the idea, and with the practical problems, of placing monetary values on 'intangible', non-marketed goods, such as pollution, noise nuisance, personal injury, or the loss of home, neighbours or recreational benefit.

Jan Qvigstad draws on his extensive experience in these six lectures on how central banks can make good policy decisions.

The Second Five-Year Plan of the Development of the U.

A key objective of the Central European Economies (CEE) on their transition path from planned to more market-oriented economies has been membership of the European Union (EU).

A description of the contemporary Russian economy on the basis of an analysis of economic policy-making structures and procedures.

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This book provides a succinct account of what may happen to the energy sector in the former Soviet Union in the medium- to long-run under alternative scenarios for macroeconomic reform.

Recessions are a recurring phenomenon and there are repeated debates about how to combat them when the crisis hits and after the economy begins to grow again.

Originally published in 1970, this book examines the origins of social organizations, the development of Robinson Crusoe economies and the conception of property or rightful ownership, as well as the origins of agriculture, race and class.

Over the past 15 years, Poland has been one of the fastest-growing countries in the European Union.

By enabling the storage and transfer of purchasing power, money facilitates economic transactions and coordinates economic activity.

This book surveys big data tools used in macroeconomic forecasting and addresses related econometric issues, including how to capture dynamic relationships among variables; how to select parsimonious models; how to deal with model uncertainty, instability, non-stationarity, and mixed frequency data; and how to evaluate forecasts, among others.

A rigorous defense of free markets and open enterprise in the tradition of Adam Smith.

Issues related to central banks feature regularly in economic news coverage, and in times of economic or financial crisis, especially when a commercial bank is bailed out, they become the focus of the policy debate.

What effect did the Great Recession have on innovation efficiency and the effectiveness of scarce resource management?

This book offers an essential guide to Public Finance and National Accounts in the context of the European Union.

Originally published in1985, Jim Tomlinson charters the route of British macroeconomic policy in the post-war era.

Financial markets exercise an enormous influence over modern economies and it is certainly not exaggerated to say that central banks are among the most important actors in financial markets.

Central banks play an important role in the course of national economies and the global economy.

The celebratory tone about the emergence of the BRICs and the improved growth in Sub Saharan Africa and Latin America during the 2000s obscures the reality that, for large parts of the developing world, the development challenges are more acute than ever before.

The recent crisis has redrawn attention to financial globalization.

This book answers some challenging questions in monetary growth theory within a compact theoretical framework.

Originally published in 1996, The International Guide to Securities Market Indices provides a comprehensive overview of the securities market indices and offers assistance to professionals as well as individual investors in the selection of an appropriate securities market index, on a worldwide basis.

A Macroeconomics Reader brings together a collection of key readings in modern macroeconomics.

First published in 1919, this book traces the growth of War Debt during the First World War, examines the real meaning of the Debt and discusses the proposals for clearing it.

In this book, originally published in 1937, Jacob Viner traces, in a series of studies of contemporary source-material, the evolution of the modern orthodox theory of international trade from its beginnings in the revolt against English mercantilism in the 17th and 18th centuries, through the English currency and tariff controversies of the 19th century, to the late 20th century.

Revised and updated for the second edition, this textbook allows students to work through classic texts in economics and finance, using the original data and replicating their results.

This title was first published in 2001.

This book explains how standard micro-founded macroeconomics is misguided and proposes an alternative method based on statistical physics.

In 1994 South Africa saw the end of apartheid.

We Are Better Than This fundamentally reframes budget debates in the United States.