Macroeconomics

This book illustrates how the treatment of complexity in analytical frameworks shapes economic studies.

This book presents a thorough and critical evaluation of the monetary and financial system prevalent in Western economies.

This book explains the place of oil in the economic and political predicaments that now confront the West.

This book explores the diverse challenges facing the EU and in particular examines the impediments to financial stability and sustainable growth and how these can be overcome.

The main objective of this book is to identify the key sources of growth which have played a significant role in Africa's recent robust growth as well as its efforts towards economic transformation.

Natural resources have been a recurring subject of public interest, from the environmental awakening in and the oil crises of the later 20th century, to wide swings in oil prices and increased concern about climate change in the first decades of the 21st century.

This book demonstrates the power of neural networks in learning complex behavior from the underlying financial time series data.

This book introduces the Eora, Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) and World Input-Output (WIOD) databases and provides detailed metadata on the data sources, database structures and construction techniques used to build each system.

This book focuses on the impact of financial liberalisation and globalisation on economic growth and inequality worldwide over the past quarter century.

This book provides a critical insight into sustainability and fashion in a retailing and marketing context.

This book explores the US economy from 1960 to 2010 using a more Keynsian, Cowles model approach, which the author argues has substantial advantages over the vector autoregression (VAR) and dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models used almost exclusively today.

This book takes a new look at the golden age in neoclassical growth theory and explores in detail sustainability and optimum growth in China, the US and Europe.

This volume gathers selected peer-reviewed papers presented at the international conference "e;MAF 2016 - Mathematical and Statistical Methods for Actuarial Sciences and Finance"e;, held in Paris (France) at the Universite Paris-Dauphine from March 30 to April 1, 2016.

This book upturns many established ideas regarding the economic and social history of Quebec, the Canadian province that is home to the majority of its French population.

This book presents the most current trends in the field of finance and accounting from an international perspective.

This book, comprised of entirely original research, collects data on the socioeconomic situation of China's 56 ethnic groups.

This book explores how, through spirituality and the development of character, Islamic financial institutions and Muslim communities can integrate their businesses with contemporary social responsibility initiatives to produce positive social and environmental impact.

This book applies an economic approach to examine the driving forces behind the dynamic behaviors of developing nations.

This proceedings volume aims to provide new research methods, theories and applications from various areas of applied economic research.

In this wide-ranging book, Wall Street legend Henry Kaufman recounts the events surrounding the catastrophic collapse of Lehman Brothers from his then vantage point on the board.

This book explores contemporary empirical issues in Islamic economics.

This book presents a broad overview of risk management in the banking industry, with a special focus on strategic thinking and decision-making.

This book assesses the 2008-2009 financial crisis and its ramifications for the global economy from a multidisciplinary perspective.

This book examines the design of two care pathways to establish how key principles associated with systems thinking, quality improvement, and supply chain management can improve the design of these services.

This book offers a comprehensive empirical analysis of South African inflation dynamics, using a variety of techniques including counterfactual analysis.

This book offers the analysis of the relationship between the Cape Town Convention and national laws on secured transactions.

This introductory statistics textbook conveys the essential concepts and tools needed to develop and nurture statistical thinking.

This book presents overwhelming evidence that US government stimulus programs over the past fifty years have not worked.

This book analyzes the effects of the recent crisis and evaluates potential solutions to the gridlock that is currently dominating the Eurozone and the European Union, concerning both the monetary policy and the budgetary and fiscal policy.

This book presents a theoretical framework to explain chronic inflation and hyperinflation.

This book offers a practical guide to Agent Based economic modeling, adopting a "e;learning by doing"e; approach to help the reader master the fundamental tools needed to create and analyze Agent Based models.

Institutions now dominate trading in equities around the world.

This volume presents contributions that analyse the extraordinary impact of digital technology on business, services, and the production of value in many sectors of the economy.

This book presents empirical evidence that supports and facilitates a practical, integrated approach to how bank regulatory and selected macro-prudential tools interact with monetary policy to achieve price and financial stability.

This book is the thirteenth volume in the International Papers in Political Economy (IPPE) series which explores the latest developments in political economy.

This book examines legal limitations on government deficit and debt and its impact on the ability of nations to provide services to their residents.

In this work, Rutherford reviews why Adam Smith, Hayek, Mises and others praised economic markets, with a view to understanding, in contrast, historical attacks on markets dating as far back as Aristotle.

The scope of this volume is primarily to analyze from different methodological perspectives  similar valuation and optimization problems arising in financial applications, aimed at facilitating a theoretical and computational integration between methods largely regarded as alternatives.

This book examines the link between innovation and economic crises through a systemic philosophy of economic history.

This book reviews the key policy debates during the post-crash era, describing the issues that policymakers grappled with, the decisions that they took and the details of the policy instruments that were created.

This book analyzes the foundations and means of overcoming the current crisis in the broader area of Southeast Europe.

This book explains how to restructure and successfully turn around a bank or financial institution at a time when the global financial system is facing a new wave of disruption ushered in by innovation from digital financial technology, or FinTech.

This edited volume, with contributions by area experts, offers discussions on a range of evolving topics in economics and social development.

This book offers a comprehensive assessment of the Mauritian economy and its financial system.

This introductory textbook for business statistics teaches statistical analysis and research methods via business case studies and financial data using Excel, Minitab, and SAS.

This textbook examines corruption through a macroeconomic lens, exploring the relationship between corruption, fiscal policy, and political economy.

This volume, inspired by and dedicated to the work of pioneering investment analyst, Jack Treynor, addresses the issues of portfolio risk and return and how investment portfolios are measured.

This volume presents a unified mathematical framework for the transmission channels for damaging shocks that can lead to instability in financial systems.

This text presents modern developments in time series analysis and focuses on their application to economic problems.

This book is an applications-orientedtext designed for individuals who desire a hands-on approach to analyzing theeffects of fiscal and monetary policies.