This book presents an overview of the economics and politics implemented in the European Union and especially the Eurozone during the crisis of 2008-2012.
This book reviews the key conceptions and economic theories of poverty, explains poverty-environment nexus, and finally offers innovative socio-economic and scientific geospatial solutions for the 21st Century.
Despite the success of policymakers and the European Central Bank in calming down financial markets since the summer of 2012, European leaders are still facing formidable challenges in making the single currency work in a complex environment.
Political economy focuses on issues that are fundamental to individual and collective well-being and rests on the proposition that economic phenomena do not occur in isolation from social and political processes.
Economic development and social welfare depend on the existence of effective and efficient infrastructure systems, particularly in health, energy, transportation and water, many of which are developed and managed through Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs).
The developments over a thirty-year time span in the study of power, especially voting power, are traced in this book, which provides an up-to-date overview of applications of n-person game theory to the study of power in multimember bodies.
Ever since newspaper companies first turned to their governments for support in the 1950s, print media has been supported by state aid in many parts of the world.
This book presents latest research in the field of Political Economy, dealing with the integration of economics and politics and the way institutions affect social decisions.
Defining Democracy looks both at the theory of why and the history of how different voting procedures have come to be used - or not, as the case may be - in the three fields of democratic structures: firstly, in decision-making, both in society at large and in the elected chamber; secondly, in elections to and within those chambers; and thirdly, in the various forms of governance, from no-party to multi-party and all-party, which have emerged as a result.
Das Buch gibt einen umfassenden Überblick über die neuen Instrumente des Kreditrisikotransfers wie Kreditderivate, Asset Backed Securities und synthetische Verbriefungen.
Das Lehrbuch beschreibt die Bewertung von sicheren und unsicheren Sach- und Finanzinvestitionen unter der Annahme von arbitragefreien und friktionslosen Finanzmärkten.
Inzwischen haben die meisten Bundesländer - darunter Rheinland-Pfalz, Schleswig-Holstein, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Niedersachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Hessen, Sachsen und das Saarland - Vorschriften über das neue Haushalts- und Rechnungswesen erlassen und damit in den Kommunen die Ablösung der Verwaltungskameralistik verbindlich eingeläutet.
Die existenzbedrohende Krise der Metallgesellschaft, eines traditionsreichen deutschen Großunternehmens, war in erster Linie auf sehr hohe Verluste zurückzufiihren, die im Ölter mingeschäft an der New Yorker Terminbörse NYMEX aufgelaufen waren.
Die deutschen Banken sehen sich in jüngerer Vergangenheit mit Schwierigkeiten konfrontiert, die sich vor allem in einer im europäischen Vergleich ungenügenden Rentabilität und Effizienz niederschlagen.
