Money at its uses in the Ancient Greek World

Econometrics methods with applications in business and economics

This rigorous textbook provides students with a working understanding and hands-on experience of current econometrics. It covers basic econometric methods and addresses the creative process of model building. Using real-world examples and exercises, it focuses on regression and covers choice data and time series data ...

The economy of Esteem

an essay on civil and political society

The text contends that people care about others' opinions of them and that the actions they take to raise the esteem they enjoy produce social patterns. They also point out that the actions taken to raise esteem affect individual economic behaviour.

Econometrics theory and methods

This text provides a starting point for graduate-level econometrics. The comprehensive, yet accessible introductory text includes all of the major subjects of modern econometrics. The book relies on concepts rather than alegbra, with the authors selecting an appropriate level of computation in nonlinear models, of ...

The Oxford guide to financial modeling

applications for capital markets, corporate finance, risk management, and financial institutions

The essential premise of this book is that theory and practice are equally important in describing financial modeling. In it the authors try to strike a balance in their discussions between theories that provide foundations for financial models and the institutional details that provide the ...

Efficient monopolies

the limits of competition in the European property insurance market

This book presents startling evidence that state monopolies can produce better outcomes than the free market. It provides an empirical comparison of the property insurance market in five European countries: Britain, Spain, France, Switzerland, and Germany. The market and cost structures of insurers in each ...

Law as a social system

Modern systems theory provides a new paradigm for the analysis of society. In this volume, Niklas Luhmann, its leading exponent, explores its implications for our understanding of law. Luhmann argues that current thinking about how law operates within a modern society is seriously deficient. In ...

The challenges of privatization

an international analysis

This book provides the first systematic empirical analysis of privatization processes worldwide to explain how and why governments privatize, and whether privatization has proved successful or not. Privatization is shown to be a difficult process, shaped by political preferences and budgetary constraints, often pursued in ...

Happiness quantified

a satisfaction calculus approach

How do we measure happiness? This important and long-awaited book presents a new and unified approach to the analysis of subjective satisfaction and income evaluation. Drawing on empirical analyses of German, British, Dutch, and Russian data, it develops new methodology to establish a model of ...

Finite sample econometrics

ÍNDICE: 1.Introduction 2.Finite Sample Moments 3.Finite Sample Distributions 4.Regression Model 5.Models with Nonscalar Covariance Matrix of Errors 6.Dynamic Time Series Model 7.Simultaneous Equations Model

Credit, intermediation, and the macroeconomy

readings and perspectives in modern financial theory

This combination of explanatory discussion by leading financial economists and centrally important journal articles provides comprehensive and coherent coverage of the major issues in financial theory. It will help students to understand the functioning of the financial sector and the intermediary institutions that comprise it

Monetary Unions and hard pegs

effects on trade, financial development, and stability

Eds. Volbert Alexander, Jacques Mélitz, George M. Von Furstenberg This book analyses formal approaches to overcoming monetary divisions within countries and within integrating regions, focusing on the consequences of monetary union for trade among union members and their financial development and stability ÍNDICE:PART I ...

Arbitrage theory in continuous time

This accessible introduction to the mathematical underpinnings of finance concentrates on the probabilistic theory of continuous arbitrage pricing of financial derivatives, including stochastic optimal control theory, and Merton's fund separation theory. It includes a solved example for every new technique presented, numerous exercises, and ...

Economics of business policy

Manufacturing culture

the institutional geography of industrial practice

Why are firms in some regions or nations so successful at adopting particular new production technologies and work practices, while those in other places are not? What role do culturally defined characteristics, traits, and attitudes play in determining the degree of success in this process ...

Corporate finance, mergers & adquisitions

Commercial Law

Family law

The ultimate rule of Law

The Oxford handbook of jurisprudence and philosophy of Law

The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law brings together specially commissioned essays by twenty-six of the foremost legal theorists currently writing, to provide a state-of-the-art overview of jurisprudential scholarship. Each author presents an account of the contending views and scholarly debates animating their ...

Commonhold

law and practice

The book is a timely and complete guide to commonhold, providing an effective description of the new system along with expert and practical guidance on its implementation and administration. It will provide lawyers, surveyors, and anyone likely to advise on Commonhold with all they need ...

Energy security

managing risk in a dynamic legal and regulatory environment

This volume examines energy security in a privatized, liberalized, and increasingly global energy market, in which the concept of sustainability has developed together with a higher awareness of environmental issues, but where the potential for supply disruptions, price fluctuation, and threats to infrastructure safety must ...