Railway development

impacts on urban dynamics

This book addresses the role of railways in urban development. The central aim is to inquire into how especially the development of high-speed rail and light rail links will affect European cities. The analyses are carried out with special attention given to the broader institutional ...

Measuring entrepreneurship

building a statical system

This volume provides a comprehensive review of the theoretical concepts and empirical models of entrepreneurship from a non-conventional perspective. Its main purpose is to contribute to the design of an efficient system of indicators of entrepreneurship and competitiveness. The existence of a gap between the ...

Cognitive economics

As a manifestation of a 'cognitive turn' observable in all social sciences, "Cognitive Economics" is concerned with the beliefs and mental operations held by actors placed within a dynamical and strategic environment. It appears as a synthesis of an educative research program, dealing with crossed ...

Digital convergence - Libraries of the future

The convergence of IT, telecommunications, and media is bringing about a revolution in the way information is collected, stored and accessed. There are three principal reasons why this is happening - reducing cost, increasing quality, and increasing bandwidth. Moore's Law results in ever-decreasing costs of ...

The demand for money

theoretical and empirical approach

This book provides an account of the existing literature on the demand for money. It shows how the money demand function fits into static and dynamic macroeconomic analyses and discusses the problem of the definition (aggregation) of money. Professor Serletis takes a microeconomic- and aggregation-theoretic ...

Mapping nanotechnology innovations and knowledge

global and longitudinal patent and literature analysis

The field of nanotechnology has seen enormous growth since 2000 and is expected to reach $1 trillion worldwide by 2015. Through a systematic and automated knowledge mapping methodology, authors Hsinchun Chen and Mihail Roco in this book collect, analyze and report on the state of ...

Macroeconomic patterns and stories

a guide for MBAs

This book offers the wisdom and insight regarding the US economy from a well-known and distinguished econometrician who found himself first teaching macro economics to MBAs and then directing the highly-regarded and widely-quoted UCLA/Anderson Forecast which provides quarterly forecasts for the US economy. Edward ...

Dynamic optimization and differential games

This book has been written to address the increasing number of Operations Research and Management Science problems (that is, applications) that involve the explicit consideration of time and of gaming among multiple agents. It is a book that will be used both as a textbook ...

Mathematical formulas for economists

The present collection of formulas has been composed for students of economics or management science at universities, colleges and trade schools. It contains basic knowledge in mathematics, financial mathematics and statistics in a compact and clearly arranged form. This volume is meant to be a ...

Environmental value transfer

issues and methods

The transfer of environmental values in time and space has increased rapidly with the widespread use of cost benefit analysis in project evaluation and regulatory assessments over the last three decades. The purpose of this volume is to take a snapshot of the research that ...

Vertical markets and cooperative hierarchies

the role of cooperatives in the agri-food industry

"Vertical Markets and Cooperative Hierarchies" comprises a selection of sixteen newly written essays that provide clarification to issues pertinent to contemporary cooperatives. Twenty three internationally recognized scholars of agricultural cooperatives, from a variety of disciplines such as industrial organization, finance, sociology, networks, and political theory ...

Real options and investment incentives

Many large corporations delegate investment decision-making authority to their divisions. Because they are better informed, divisional managers should be able to make better decisions than corporate headquarters. However, they can use this informational advantage to pursue their own interests. The objective of this work is ...

Binomial models in finance

This book deals with many topics in modern financial mathematics in a way that does not use advanced mathematical tools and shows how these models can be numerically implemented in a practical way. The book is aimed at undergraduate students, MBA students, and executives who ...

Probability, statistics and modelling in Public Health

Probability, Statistics and Modelling in Public Health consists of refereed contributions by expert biostatisticians that discuss various probabilistic and statistical models used in public health. Many of them are based on the work of Marvin Zelen of the Harvard School of Public Health. Topics discussed ...

Environmental and health risk assessment and management

principles and practices

This book is about the legal, economical, and practical assessment and management of risky activities arising from routine, catastrophic environmental and occupational exposures to hazardous agents. It begins where emission and exposure analysis ends by providing estimates or predictions of deleterious exposures. The book covers ...

The political economy of fiscal policy

public deficits, volatility, and growth

One of the most striking macroeconomic developments during the last three decades is the rise and persistence of large fiscal deficits in a number of countries. Despite recent major fiscal reforms around the world, many countries suffer from recurrent large fiscal imbalances that often reflect ...

Strafprozessrecht

Das Buch vermittelt Studierenden der Rechtswissenschaften, die sich die im ersten juristischen Staatsexamen erwarteten Kenntnisse des Strafprozessrechts aneignen müssen, und Rechtsreferendaren, die ihr Wissen auffrischen wollen, die Grundzüge des Strafprozessrechts. Die Darstellung folgt dem Ablauf des Strafverfahrens # von der Einleitung bis zum rechtskräftigen Abschluss. Zahlreiche ...

Römisches Recht

Das römische Privatrecht hat die europäischen Rechtssysteme der Gegenwart maßgeblich beeinflusst. Es spielt daher noch heute im Rahmen der europäischen Rechtsvereinheitlichung und der Rechtsvergleichung eine Rolle. Das Studium des römischen Rechts macht dem Studenten erfahrensgemäß beträchtliche Schwierigkeiten. Dem will das vorliegende Buch abhelfen. Gegenüber den ...

Monetary and fiscal policies in the Euro Area

This book studies the interactions between monetary and fiscal policies in the euro area. It carefully discusses the process of policy competition and the structure of policy cooperation. As to policy competition, the focus is on competition between the European central bank, the American central ...

Innovative comparative methods for policy analysis

beyond the quantitative-qualitative divide

Innovative Comparative Methods for Policy Analysis aims to provide a decisive push to the further development and application of innovative and specific comparative methods for the improvement of policy analysis. To take on this challenge, this volume brings together methodologists and specialists from a broad ...