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Organization, Performance and Equity: Perspectives on the Japanese Economy provides an analysis of key components of the Japanese economy and business structures, edited by two leading American-based Japan scholars.

Deterrence of market manipulation is central to the entire regulatory and legal framework governing the operation of American commodity futures markets.

To the classical driving forces of migration such as poverty, oppression and war, yet another is being added: globalization.

This book's purpose is to shed light on the threats and opportunities arising from the incentives and restrictions of governmental actions which food industry managers discover in their search for profits.

In a little over one decade, the spread of market-oriented policies has turned the once so-called lesser developed countries into emerging markets.

The health care sector has become a major component of the contemporary econo- mies of Japan and the United States.

The dramatic growth of international capital flow has provided unprecedented opportunities and risks in emerging markets.

Setting the issue "e;Most economists consider the marked increase in automatic stabilizers a highly favorable development with respect to maintenance of economic stability"e;.

THE JANUS-FACE OF RACE: REFLEC- TIONS ON ECONOMIC THEORY Patrick L.

Equal treatment in access to credit has long been a fundamental social goal in the United States.

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Property Tax Reform in Developing Countries provides a conceptual framework for property tax reform with the intention of making the most compelling argument possible to persuade the reader as to its validity.

Economic Restructuring and the Growing Uncertainty of the Middle Class focuses on a relatively new research area which is becoming increasingly more important: the growing uncertainty of the middle class.

Public Accountability: Evaluating Technology-Based Institutions presents guidelines for evaluating the research performance of technology-based public institutions, and illustrates these guidelines through case studies conducted at one technology-based public institution, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

CARlA BODO Board Member of the Cultural Information and Research Centres liaison in Europe (CIRCLE) and Director of the Observatory for the Performing Arts at the Department of the Performing Arts of the Italian Prime Minister's Office, Roma The relation between the public and the private sector in the field of culture, the central theme of this publication, was thoroughly debated during the 1997 CIRCLE Round Table in Amsterdam.

Foreign aid has been an area of active scholarly investigation since the end of the Second World War, but particularly since the early 1950s when a large number of the erstwhile colonies became independent.

Over the last fifty years, increasingly sophisticated risk measurement and management techniques have revolutionized the field of finance.

Globalization, Technological Change and Labor Markets is an edited collection of papers drawn from the conference held at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies in June 1997.

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Over the past thirty years, urban economic theory has been one of the most active areas of urban and regional economic research.

Corruption has been part of our economic and political life since ancient times.

Global Competition and Integration offers varied perspectives on the changing international economy.

This book champions the view that economics is a social science, and that, moreover, it may serve as a new paradigm for the social sciences.

The Post-Uruguay Round era has seen a proliferation of regional preferential trade agreements (PTAs) as well as progressive multilateral trade liberalization initiatives.

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.

It is difficult to overstate the importance of personal consumption both to individual consumers and to the economy.

Public Technology Procurement and Innovation studies public technology procurement as an instrument of innovation policy.

Health care arguably is the single most regulated industry in industrial countries, and possibly in newly industrialized and developing countries as well.

The experience of privatization of social security has been predominantly in the Latin American region.

Recently, a research program on the compliance costs and the economic effects of taxation in New Zealand was undertaken within the Inland Revenue Department.

Economic Development is but one facet of Human Development.

The ageing, financial and labour market challenges facing the old age pension systems of the member states of the European Union are well known.

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Contemporary Issues in Accounting Regulation looks at accounting regulation in a different way.

For many countries tourism is an industry of great economic significance; it is seen as a main instrument for regional development, as it stimulates new economic activities.

In today's globalized international system, international and regional organizations can only function effectively within the context of a larger social partnership with governments, the private sectors, and a plethora of increasingly influential interest groups.

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 envisioned a competitive free-for-all in the U.

This book is based on a conference on `Regulation and the Evolving Nature of Postal and Delivery Services: 1992 and Beyond' held at Village PTT, La Londe les Maures, France, on March 18, 1992.

A thorough analysis of insider trading requires the integration of law and finance, and this book presents a theoretical and empirical examination of insider trading by incorporating a synthesis of securities law with that of financial theory.

In this volume are papers written by students and co-authors of Stanley Reiter.

The problems arising from the existence of asymmetric information in public decision making have been widely explored by economists.

Policy Uncertainty and Risk presents a contribution to risk analysis and risk management in public policy and management at large.

As both the twenty-first century and the new millennium opened and the old eras passed into history, individuals and organizations throughout the world advanced their listings of the most significant people and events in their respective specialties.

Federalism has generally been characterized as a system of government that is friendly to liberty.

Evidence-Based Health Care Management introduces the principles and methods for drawing sound causal inferences in research on health services management.

This chapter has set out in detail the models which are employed below in order to analyse the labour market effects of changes in tax rates and in alterations in the tax structure.

As the public in the U.

Public Interest Institute began operations in 1992 as Iowa's only state-level, independent, research organization.

The Asian crisis of 1997-1998 was a major influence on macroeconomic thinking concerning exchange rate regimes, the functioning of international institutions, such as the IMF and the World Bank, and international contagion of macroeconomic instability from one country to another.