Economics

The book presents applications of stochastic calculus to derivative security pricing and interest rate modelling.

This book examines China, the world's largest auto market since 2008 and the story of how Chinese auto-makers developed is the story of the Chinese economy in microcosm.

The book is a precious reference book for development economics or the political economy of development in Asia or anywhere else.

This Edited Collection provides a rigorous and rich overview of current bargaining research in economics and related disciplines, as well as a discussion of future directions.

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Trade, Competition and Domestic Regulatory Policy presents a unique combination of analysis of both international trade and investment policies, and competition and regulatory policies.

Written during the early 1920s, at a time when Europe was still recovering from the catastrophe of the First World War, L.

This book purports to investigate and compare the economic development experiences in both Taiwan and South Korea in last two decades.

There is every indication that the international system is undergoing a period of significant transformation.

The UK and Multi-level Financial Regulation examines the role of the United Kingdom (UK) in shaping post-crisis financial regulatory reform, and assesses the implications of the UK's withdrawal from the European Union (EU).

Joseph Alois Schumpeter is arguably the most important economist of the 20th century.

Multi-Criteria Decision-Making for Renewable Energy: Methods, Applications, and Challenges brings together the latest fuzzy and soft computing methods, models, and algorithms as applied to the field of renewable energy and supported by specific application examples and case studies.

Given its geographical proximity to Asia and its close alliance with the West, Australia, amid the rise of Asian economies, needs to re-formulate its policies on trade, investment and security.

Nach Jahrzehnten der Zurückhaltung präsentiert sich die Volksrepublik China heute als selbstbewusste Weltmacht.

Sustainable Management Development in Africa examines how African management and business scholarship can serve African and multinational management and organizations operating in Africa.

Examines the nature and process of private policymaking in US firms and how this interacts with public policymaking.

This book presents the capitalist system as a function of the interaction of the three basic classes in the capitalist social formation.

This is the first book to provide a systematic description of statistical properties of large-scale financial data.

This book articulates a unified theory of capitalism as an attempt to provide a comprehensive scientific theory of this social system.

This book, first published in 1997, focuses on the Anglo-American cooperation which began during the relatively uneventful years 1953 and 1954, and which led to a covert operation, code-named 'Alpha', which aimed - unsuccessfully - at convincing Egyptian and Israeli leaders to consider a settlement through secret negotiations.

Culture transformation expert Siobhan McHale defines culture simply: ';It's how things work around here.

This book reveals the myriad aspects of Big Data collection and analysis, by defining and clarifying the meaning of Big Data and its unique characteristics in a non-technical and easy-to-follow way.

Policy evaluation and programme choice are important tools for informed decision-making, for the administration of active labour market programmes, training programmes, tuition subsidies, rehabilitation programmes etc.

Occupational Safety and Hygiene VI collects recent papers of selected authors from 21 countries in the domain of occupational safety and hygiene (OSH).

A major success of the early post-war period was the negotiated reduction of barriers to international trade in commodities and manufactured goods, under the auspices of the GATT.

The No-Time-To-Lose Diet reveals a weight-loss plan you can successfully use in the real world.

Systems of innovation that are conducted within national borders can preserve inefficient solutions and prevent development.

Introduction to Stochastic Finance with Market Examples, Second Edition presents an introduction to pricing and hedging in discrete and continuous-time financial models, emphasizing both analytical and probabilistic methods.

Establishing a difference is the lynchpin of marketing.

Anyone who has ever bought a car, rented an apartment, had a job or conversation that they would rather not see in their employee review may find this book of interest.

This book is part of a series of titles that are a spin-off of the Shingo Prize-winning book Leveraging Lean in Healthcare: Transforming Your Enterprise into a High Quality Patient Care Delivery System.

The reconstruction of Kosovo after 1999 was one of the largest and most ambitious international interventions in a post-conflict country.

When the People's Republic of China (PRC) was granted Most Favored Nation (MFN) status by the United States in 1979, no one imagined the massive transformation the Chinese economy would make within a few decades.

During its 500-year history, the modern world-system has seen several shifts in hegemony.

The authors argue the business case for sustainable development in this study that explores a range of issues beginning with corporate social responsibility and ending with eco-efficiency.

Throughout Latin America's history the world of work has been linked to race, class, and gender within the larger framework of changing social, political, and economic circumstances both in the region and abroad.

First published in 1972, this is a book of essays offered in honour of Paul Rosenstein-Rodan, the distinguished economist whose career started in mid-1920s Vienna and subsequently spanned Europe, Britain, the USA and many of the less developed countries of the world.

This book strengthens our understanding of Indian manufacturing.

"e;Quantitative Eco-nomics"e; cuts through the fog of vision and advocacy by comparing and applying new quantitative tools of both environmental and ecological economics.

Building Energy Flexibility and Demand Management looks at the high penetration of intermittent renewable energy sources and the need for increased flexibility.

This book, first published in 1977, continues the author's of the Palestinian National Movement from the first volume, The Emergence of the Palestinian-Arab National Movement, 1918-1929.

This is a comprehensive account of the Chinese debates on economic reforms, from the Third Plenum of 1978 to the crackdown of 1989.

This is the first book to show the capabilities of Microsoft Excel to teach health services management statistics effectively.