Civil service and public sector

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Security concerns, the AIDS epidemic, environmental degradation, and financial contagion are salient features of today's landscape of threats to global stability.

Consumption takes place in settings or environments which have both direct and indirect effects on its dynamic path.

The central question addressed in Financial Innovations and the Welfare of Nations is how the transfer of financial innovations from developed to developing economies can nurture the dynamics of emerging capital markets.

Decentralism of political power to regions and local government occurs worldwide in response to demands from the periphery.

This book is a product of my commitment to developing both theory and practice in political economy.

As the demand for environmental quality is increasing and as the current GATT rules monitored by the WTO are not very suitable for environmental protection, either a new international environmental organization may be formed soon or new environmental regulations may be added to GATT.

This book is the first comprehensive, full-scale treatment of the law, politics and economics with regard to the policies and policy instruments for budget stabilization at the state level.

The premise of this volume is that business regulations are expected to grow in the near future as a consequence of the emergence of a "e;(world) risk society.

This book contains selected peer-reviewed papers that were presented at the Fourth International Symposium on Transportation Network Reliability (INSTR) Conference held at the University of Minnesota July 22-23, 2010.

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Essays on Money, Banking and Regulation honors the interests and achievements of the Dutch economist Conrad Oort.

Monetary Policy in a Converging Europe covers the most important monetary issues in the transition towards an Economic and Monetary Union in Europe, containing contributions from renowned experts in relevant research and policy areas.

This monograph treats the question of determining how much to spend for the collection and analysis of public data.

Governments all over the world are consistently outpaced by digital change, and are falling behind.

This book explores the ideas of nine renowned economists to present the evolution of economic thought on the development and trajectory of capitalism as a system.

In most municipalities across Canada, the top public servant is the chief administrative officer (CAO) or city manager.

In most municipalities across Canada, the top public servant is the chief administrative officer (CAO) or city manager.

The institutional ethnographies collected in Under New Public Management explore how new managerial governance practices coordinate the work of people doing front-line work in public sectors such as health, education, social services, and international development, and people management in the private sector.

In the future, as our society becomes older and older, an increasing number of people will be confronted with Alzheimer's disease.

Infrastructure construction and use is at the heart o the current political debate.

What role should regulation play in financial markets?