The German financial system

A comprehensive account of the many facets of Germany's financial system, this book explains and assesses the status of the system as the world's prototype bank-based financial system at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Covering corporate governance, equity markets, debt markets, investment ...

Constructing corporate America

history, politics, culture

This collection of cutting- edge research reviews the evolution of the American corporation, the dominant trends in the way it has been studied, and at the same time introduces some new perspectives on the historical trajectory of the business organization as a social institution. The ...

Principles of medical Law

Now in its second edition, this classic reference text has been expanded and fully revised to bring the work up to date to Summer 2003. Written and edited by a team of experts, it covers all aspects of medical law from the regulation of the ...

English Public Law

Building the UK's new Supreme Court

national and comparative perspectives

Data protection

A practical guide to UK and EU law

European company and financial Law

texts and leading cases

As with previous editions, the third edition of this book contains every piece of European legislation affecting companies and the financial sector. This edition will be even more valuable to the reader as it also features commentaries on the leading cases decided by European and ...

Models for dynamic macroeconomics

This is a textbook for advanced students in macroeconomics. It provides a clear guide to the techniques and tools used in modern macroeconomic analysis without requiring advanced mathematical training. It covers the core topics of consumption and investment, employment and unemployment, and economic growth. Each ...

Architectures of knowledge

firms, capabilities, and communities

Architectures of Knowledge seeks to demonstrate that a recognition of the importance of the role of knowledge in ecnomics may lead to a new conception of the firm and public policy. To construct an alternative theorisation of knowledge formation and knowledge governance in firms, the ...

Introduction to marketing

theory and practice

'Introduction to Marketing' provides a concise introduction to the principles of marketing, offering both critical analysis and applied case studies. Combining academic credibility with an established reputation for his clear writing style, Palmer's book is ideal as a one- semester introductory title for students ...

International relations since 1945

a global history

Apuleius

a latin sophist

Jews in a graeco-roman world

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 ...