Microeconomics

An international team of experts covers the pros and cons of different auction formats and lessons learned in the field.

The interactions that occur in securities markets are among the fastest, most information intensive, and most highly strategic of all economic phenomena.

Soldiers and Oil (1978) examines Nigeria under military rule from 1966 to 1978, a period of political change as well as economic - the period also saw a twenty-fold increase in Nigerian oil revenues.

'Corporate purpose' has become a battleground for stakeholders' competing desires.

The class is theory of price regulation assumed that the regulator knows the fIrm's costs, the key piece of information that enables regulators to pressure fmns to choose appropriate behaviors.

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The world of economics and management is being reshaped in more ways than one including rapid advancements in technology and business practices.

The 8th Edition of Contemporary Economics continues to offer a clear, concise presentation of basic micro- and macroeconomic theory.

Problems related to the functioning of public healthcare systems encourage the search for alternative solutions, for example to ensure improved access to medical services.

In Formal and Informal Social Safety Nets , Ashraf analyses the role of social safety nets in a time when our global economy threatens our way of life, as entire cities such as Detroit are declared bankrupt.

The aim of this major reference work is to provide a first point of entry to the literature for the researchers in any field relating to structural integrity in the form of a definitive research/reference tool which links the various sub-disciplines that comprise the whole of structural integrity.

Changing Welfare is concerned with the sweeping changes that took place in public assistance programs at the end of the 20th century and the way in which the original and reformed versions of these programs relate to the well-being of children and their families.

Law and economics is the field of study devoted to understanding laws and legal institutions using the tools of economic theory.

This textbook is a comprehensive introduction to applied spatial data analysis using R.

The rapidly changing and evolving art market might appear to be chaotic to the casual observer, with new highs, potential lows, and tastes and fashions changing season to season.

Oil and Development in the Arab Gulf States (1985) brings together in one volume the manifold sources of information on the Arab Gulf region, especially the impact of oil revenues on its economic, political and social development.

Growing populations and economies have increased the public's awareness that the world's environmental resources are finite.

Behavioural Economics and Experiments addresses key topics within behavioural economics, exploring vital questions around decision-making and human nature.

The essays in this book use the analytical tools and theoretical framework of economics to interpret quantitative historical evidence, offering new ways to approach historical issues and suggesting entirely new types of evidence outside conventional archives.

This text enables a thorough and coherent understanding of the core concepts and key topics of industrial organisation using a firmly real-world and case-centric approach.

The proliferation of processors, environments, and constraints on systems has cast compiler technology into a wider variety of settings, changing the compiler and compiler writer's role.

Using a sophisticated approach that unifies the three key areas of supply chain strategies, sales and operations planning (SOP), and lean manufacturing, The Market-Driven Supply Chain is the only book that takes a comprehensive approach to succeeding in today's on-demand environment.

A comprehensive introduction to contract theory, emphasizing common themes and methodologies as well as applications in key areas.

As it is today, the property market was a key and dynamic economic sector in Ancient Rome.

In the light of digital transformation and the role of information and communication technologies for economic development, this volume discusses the challenges and opportunities for a new digital economy and regional and sustainable development of countries in the Balkans and Eastern Europe.

This is the first definitive introduction to behavioral economics aimed at advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Throughout the history of economic thought, the entrepreneur a wide variety of roles.

This book examines patterns of economic governance in three specific, contrasting, contexts: machinery-producing districts; declining steel cities; and clusters of high-technology activities.

A revealing collection from the intellectual titan whose work shaped the modern world.

This is the first book that uses the Harris - Todaro (H-T) model to study contemporary economic issues in developing countries, with a particular focus on China.

Debt, private and public, and in particular excessive debt, has been debated to be one of the root causes of economic crises.

An up-to-date analysis of the theory of the firm, including the latest research on the resource-based view.

This book brings together a collection of empirical case studies featuring a wide spectrum of medical innovation.

This book takes a comparative approach to economic history to offer ways to increase our understanding of the divergence between South America and Scandinavia.

Dieses Lehrbuch wendet sich an Studierende der Wirtschaftswissenschaften im Grundstudium eines Bachelorstudienganges.

This is the new edition of the highly acclaimed Latin America in the 1930s , a text which has proved invaluable for teachers, researchers and students alike.

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In this volume practitioners and theorists from East and West assess the results of four years of transformation in Eastern Europe.

This advanced textbook aims at providing a simple but fully operational introduction to applied general equilibrium.

Principles of Agricultural Economics, now in its fourth edition, continues to showcase the power of economic principles to explain and predict issues and current events in the food, agricultural, and agribusiness sectors.

Since its emergence in the 1970s, microfinance has risen to become one of the most high-profile policies to address poverty in developing and transition countries.

Many "e;nudges"e; aim to make life simpler, safer, or easier for people to navigate, but what do members of the public really think about these policies?

Economics has not given sufficient attention to the microeconomic analysis of innovation and technological change.

The Economics of Health and Health Care is the market-leading health economics textbook, providing comprehensive coverage of all the key topics, and balancing economic theory, empirical evidence, and public policy.

This book rigorously examines the air transport market liberalisation process on the African continent and presents key highlights, challenges, and impediments to embracing an "e;open skies"e; market environment in Africa.

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

THE NEW QUESTIONTen years after the worldwide bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins returns with another groundbreaking work, this time to ask: Why do some companies thrive in uncertainty, even chaos, and others do not?