Microeconomics

This book is about the applicability of the high seas regime in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ).

Entrepreneurship is the engine of economic progress, but mainstream economic models of economic growth tend to leave out the entrepreneurial elements of the economy.

companies to diversify may outweigh the costs of doing so, and that some traditional regulatory concerns may be excessively restrictive.

Im vorliegenden Sammelband werden die Einsatzfähigkeit von Verfahren und Methoden der Produktivitätsmessung in produktionsnahen Dienstleistungsbereichen diskutiert sowie Praxisbeispiele zur Messung und Steigerung der Produktivität in der Unternehmenspraxis vorgestellt.

General Equilibrium Analysis is a systematic exposition of the Walrasian model of economic equilibrium with a finite number of agents, as formalized by Arrow, Debreu and McKenzie at the beginning of the fifties and since then extensively used, worked and studied.

First Published in 1998.

Demonstrates the importance of social norms to firms and markets through historical context and theoretical and empirical evidence.

Capital structure choice is essential for an institution to maximize its value.

Economics has paid little attention to the psychology of economic behaviour, leading to somewhat simplistic assumptions about human nature.

This book presents a comparative study of the land settlements and sovereign arrangements between the US government and the three major aggregated groups of indigenous peoples-American Indians, Native Alaskans, and Native Hawaiians-whose land rights claims have resulted in very different outcomes.

2010 marks the hundredth anniversary of the death of Leon Walras, the brilliant originator and first formaliser of general equilibrium theory - one of the pillars of modern economic theory.

This textbook offers a compact, yet formal, synthesis of the broad field of consumption theory.

The free market underpins our economy and our way of thinking around enterprise and value, but it is also a major factor in the sustainability problems that we now live with.

This volume is a history of economics - as it was interpreted, discussed and established as a discipline - in the 20th century.

This book describes a laboratory experiment designed to test the causes and properties of bubbles in financial markets and explores the question whether it is possible to design markets which avoid such bubbles and crashes.

Herbert Scarf is a distinguished economist and has made a number of extraordinarily significant contributions to economics, game theory and operations research.

Economic reform - the introduction of elements of the market into a planned economy - has been the central political problem for socialist states for at least three decades.

In recent years, trust has enjoyed increasing interest from a wide range of parties, including organizations, policymakers, and the media.

How identity influences the economic choices we makeIdentity Economics provides an important and compelling new way to understand human behavior, revealing how our identities-and not just economic incentives-influence our decisions.

Expected utility provides simple, testable properties of the optimum behavior that should be displayed by risk-averse individuals in risky decisions.

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European Welfare Production is of interest to researchers in quality of life research, economists and political scientists interested in welfare regimes and comparative social welfare research, and administrators in social planning and social work.

Over the last few decades behavioral economics has revolutionized the discipline.

Even after achieving the status of a developed economy, many economies face other challenges which may include economic stagnation and income inequality.

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This book deals with situations where objectives of participants of the game are partially cooperative and partially conflicting.

In recent years, choice no-fault has emerged as a popular but controversial proposal for addressing the problem of high automobile insurance rates.

Regulations to promote health and safety may be costly relative to the expected health and safety benefits, and may actually have negative effects on health and safety.

The Kazakstan Economy deals with the last years of the planned economy in Kazakstan and goes on to explore the beginning of national sovereignty, the introduction of the new national currency and the first steps by the Kazakstani government on a course of reform.

The excessive pursuit of economic interests has resulted in severe environmental and social problems, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and inequality and disparity.

The book examines the health rights of older persons who are more likely potentially to face various disadvantages in terms of healthcare access and affordability, thereby impacting on health outcomes.

A graduate-level textbook which surveys the most recent developments in input-output analysis and their applications.

Over the last several decades, there has been a growing interest in theoretical, empirical, and experimental work on all aspects of tax compliance and tax evasion.

Diese grundlegende Einführung in die Mikroökonomik ist als vorlesungsbegleitende Lektüre ebenso wie zum Selbststudium geeignet.

This textbook provides a short introduction to auction theory through exercises with detailed answer keys.

The book examines in depth the problematic effects of state intervention in agricultural markets of developing countries against the background of the current transition of interventionism to neo-liberalism.

This collection of papers is an outgrowth of the "e;Game Practice I"e; th th conference held in Genoa from 28 to 30 June 1998.

Economists and psychologists have, on the whole, exhibited sharply different perspectives on the elicitation of preferences.

China has achieved rapid economic growth since the market-oriented reform in 1978 and became the second largest economy in the world in 2010.

In the last three decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall, there has been a vast amount of study looking at transforming the planned economy to a market economy from both theoretical and empirical aspects.

In the past two decades, several millions of IT-enabled services jobs have been relocated or 'offshored' from the US and Europe to, in particular, low cost economies around the world.

The concept of general equilibrium, one of the central components of economic theory, explains the behavior of supply, demand, and prices by showing that supply and demand exist in balance through pricing mechanisms.

This book accounts for the work done around the two central aspects of Piero Sraffa's contribution to economic analysis, namely the criticism of the neoclassical theory of value and distribution and the construction of economic theory along the lines of the Classical approach.

Information Economics with Real Estate Applications provides the reader with an academic toolkit to understand strategic interactions of individuals and companies in a world of scarce resources and asymmetric information.

The New World of Economics, 6th edition, by Richard McKenzie and Gordon Tullock, represents a revival of a classic text that, when it was first published, changed substantially the way economics would be taught at the introductory and advanced levels of economics for all time.