A companion to economic forecasting

ÍNDICE: List of Contributors. Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. An Overview of Economic Forecasting: Michael P. Clements (University of Warwick) and David F. Hendry (Nuffield College, Oxford University). 2. Predictable Uncertainty in Economic Forecasting: Neil Ericsson (Federal Reserve Board). 3. Density Forecasting: A Survey: Anthony S. Tay ...

Credit derivatives

application, pricing and risk management

The market for credit derivatives--financial instruments designed to transfer credit risk from one party to another--has grown exponentially in recent years, with volume expected to reach more than $4.8 trillion by 2004. With demand increasing from the private sector for finance professionals trained in ...

Blackwell handbook of judgement and decision making

Cities of Europe

changing contexts, local arrangements, and the challenge to urban cohesion

Cities of Europe is a unique combination of book and CD-ROM examining the effects of recent socio- economic transformations on western European cities. *A unique combination of book and CD-ROM examining the effects of recent socio-economic transformations on western European cities. *Focuses on the interplay ...

African archaeology

a critial introduction

All too often, in the popular imagination, Africa is a land of wildlife safaris and "exotic" cultures or, alternatively, a continent plagued by violence, warfare, poverty, and disease. Archaeologists of Africa have long worked to counter such negative images and misleading stereotypes. Yet, despite ample ...

A companion to feminist geography

A Companion to Feminist Geography captures the breadth and diversity of this vibrant and substantive field. It shows how feminist geography has altered the landscape of geographical inquiry and knowledge since the 1970s, reframing fundamental approaches across a range of disciplines, including architecture, environmental studies ...

The aesthetics of cultural studies

After Habermas

new perspectives on the public sphere

History and national destiny

ethnosymbilism and its critics

Wittgenstein's beetle

and other classic thought experiments

The future of war

the re-enchantment of war in the Twenty-First Century

History and historians

selected papers of R.W. Southern

Geographies and moralities

international perspectives on development, justice and place

Military geographies

Salt and olives

morality and custom in Ancient Greece

Islamism and its enemies in the Horn of Africa

From Ikaria to the stars

classical mythification, Ancient and Modern

A companion to the anthropology of American Indians

The status of American Indians has been rooted in a view of Indians as members of indigenous polities with distinct cultures. Often, these cultures have been characterized by dominant colonial authorities as 'savage" or "primitive," and it is the discipline of anthropology that, willingly and ...

A companion to Heidegger

Ancient rethoric and oratory