This volume is the result of a collective effort made by its authors to reason and write about environmental policy from an empirical, rather than from a prescriptive perspective.
The papers collected in this volume are those presented at the sixteenth Colloquium arranged by the Societe Universitaire Europeenne de Re- cherches Financieres (SUERF), which took place in Lisbon in May 1991.
Acknowledgements The work underlying this study was performed at the Econometric and Special Studies Department of the Nederlandsche Bank, where many contributed to it.
This volume has been prepared in the framework of Project 1: "e;Educating Man for the 21st Century"e; of Plan Europe 2000, sponsored by the European Cultural Foundation.
Huge economic losses from natural disasters, including nearly 100 000 fatalities world wide in 1999 alone, gave rise to a renewed recognition by government, industry and the public that national governments and international agencies cannot simply go on as they have in the past.
This volume contains original essays by outstanding scholars working within several of the dominant genres in contemporary political economy: neoclassical public finance, public choice, and Marxian analysis.
THIS book or some related work has occupied me spasmodically over rather a long period, in fact ever since I listened to the class lectures of Professor A.
This book brings together the work of scholars who have written for it independent essays in their areas of particular expertise in the general field of income distribution.
Some years ago, when Principal and Professor of Economics at the infant Univer- sity of Buckingham, Britain's only independent university, I was intrigued to receive an application, supported by strong recommendations from a Signora Ilde Rizzo, who wished to take some courses in public finance.
The six papers in this vohune represent state-of-the-art empirical and conceptual research on various aspects of the taxation of multinational corporations.
A wide-ranging review of the issues and opportunities in the transfer of technology between advanced industrial countries and the countries of the Former Soviet Union.
Environmental economics addresses the issues that arise on the boundaries between economic systems and natural systems, such as pollution and natural resource de- pletion and degradation.
This book continues the discussion from Volume I on economic, fiscal, and financial crises in world history that have had a great impact on the entire world and the fiscal measures taken by governments to combat each crisis.
This book addresses three main issues in regional income inequality and development: meaning of regional inequality, measurement of regional inequality and the relationship between national economic development and regional income inequality.
This book first shows that the past 40 years of China's economic reform and opening up represents the greatest magnitude of economic growth in history.
In the context of major public sector reform efforts in many OECD countries, increasing attention is being focused on the people-side of the reform equation -- the human resource management policies and practices available to public sector managers to shape and direct the workforce to achieve new organisational goals.
Progressing towards sustainable development raises important challenges to conducting performance evaluations in governments because there are neither generally accepted methods nor specific standards to be met at present.
Patient mobility across Europe is markedly increasing and new generations will actively ask to be treated by the health-care system that best meets their needs.
Questo testo propone un’introduzione ai metodi matematici, probabilistici e numerici che sono alla base dei modelli per la valutazione degli strumenti derivati, come opzioni e futures, trattati nei moderni mercati finanziari.
To do science is to find patterns, and scientists are always looking for p- terns that they can use to structure their thinking about the world around them.
