Rethinking regional innovation and change

path dependency or regional breakthrough

Beyond path dependency and competitive convergence: Institutional transfer from a discourse-analytical perspective.- Tacit knowledge, path dependency and local trajectories of growth.- Regional transformation and regional disequilibrium: New knowledge economies and their discontents.- Switching ties, recombining teams: Avoiding lock-in through project organization?- Knowledge- intensive services as ...

Handbook of new institutional economics

New Institutional Economics (NIE) has skyrocketed in scope and influence over the last three decades. This first Handbook of NIE provides a unique and timely overview of recent developments and broad orientations. Contributions analyse the domain and perspectives of NIE; sections on legal institutions, political ...

Globalization and urban development

Most research on globalization has focused on macroeconomic and economy-wide consequences. This book explores an under-researched area, the impacts of globalization on cities and national urban hierarchies, especially but not solely in developing countries. Most of the globalization-urban research has concentrated on the "global cities ...

An introduction to Markov Processes

This book provides a rigorous but elementary introduction to the theory of Markov Processes on a countable state space. It should be accessible to students with a solid undergraduate background in mathematics, including students from engineering, economics, physics, and biology. Topics covered are: Doeblin's ...

E-Merging media

communication and the media economy of the future

After the very successful ECC-Book on "E-conomy" this new report of the European Communication Council (ECC) analyzes from various perspectives the profound societal and economical change of the media economy, initiated by digitalization and networking. Against the background of the current media history, it highlights ...

Corporate social responsibility across Europe

discovering national perspectives of corporate citizenship

The effective tax burden on highly qualified employees

an international comparison

The dynamic macroeconomic effects of public capital

theory and evidence for OECD countries

This book analyzes the dynamic macroeconomic effects of public capital in industrialized countries. The issue of whether public capital is productive has received a great deal of recent attention. Yet, existing empirical analyses have been limited to a small set of countries. This book presents ...

Mathematics of financial markets

Recent years have seen a number of introductory texts which focus on the applications of modern stochastic calculus to the theory of finance, and on the pricing models for derivative securities in particular. Some of these books develop the mathematics very quickly, making substantial demands ...

Martingale methods in financial modelling

In the 2nd edition some sections of Part I are omitted for better readability, and a brand new chapter is devoted to volatility risk. As a consequence, hedging of plain-vanilla options and valuation of exotic options are no longer limited to the Black-Scholes framework with ...

The mathematics of arbitrage

This long-awaited book aims at a rigorous mathematical treatment of the theory of pricing and hedging of derivative securities by the principle of 'no arbitrage'. The first part presents a relatively elementary introduction, restricting itself to the case of finite probability spaces. The second part ...

Real world justice

grounds, principles, human rights, and social institutions

The concept of global justice makes visible how we citizens of affluent countries are potentially implicated in the horrors so many must endure in the so-called less developed countries. Distinct conceptions of global justice differ in their specific criteria of global justice. However, they agree ...

Challenges for Central Banks in an enlarged EMU

Dynammic general equilibrium modelling

computational methods and applications

Essays in dynamic general equilibrium theory

festschrift for David Caas

Implementing strategic environmental assessment

More countries are now using Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) than ever before. This timely and comprehensive Handbook describes the implementation of SEA in 18 countries around the world, as well as a critical analysis of different SEA methodologies. The Handbook starts by introducing key SEA ...

Indicator Systems for Sustainable Innovation

In the recent past, environmental innovations have led to a considerable reduction of many pollutants; however, further innovation is required to tackle remaining pollution sources. This work analyses the significance and the effects of framework conditions on innovation activities that contribute to the realisation of ...

Banking for family business

a new challenge for wealth management

What is Banking for Family Business? What's special about it? How does the Family Banker contribute to the creation of value for entrepreneur families? The book covers a wide spectrum of topics: it investigates the ways family bankers really work, the relations between private ...

Valuation and conservation of biodiversity

interdisciplinary perspectives on the Convention on Biological Diversity

Organised crime in Europe

concepts, patterns and control policies in the European Union and beyond

At the beginning of the 21st century organised crime has become a #hot# topic in public debate and on political agendas throughout Europe. To control organised crime, far- reaching legal and institutional reforms have been passed in all European states and ad hoc instruments have ...