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 ...

Rights before Courts

a study of Constitutional Courts in postcommunist States of Central and Eastern Europe

Challenging the conventional wisdom that constitutional courts are the best device that democratic systems have for the protection of individual rights, Wojciech Sadurski examines carefully the most recent wave of activist constitutional courts: those that have emerged after the fall of communism in Central and ...

UN Law on international sales

the UN Convention on the international sale of goods

This book describes and analyses the rules and provisions of the United Nations Convention on the International Sale of Goods of 1980 - CISG. Since its coming into force in 1988, thousands of cases have been decided in more than 70 states that have enacted the ...

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 ...

Interest rate models

an infinite dimensional stochastic analysis perspective

Interest Rate Models: an Infinite Dimensional Stochastic Analysis Perspective studies the mathematical issues that arise in modeling the interest rate term structure. These issues are approached by casting the interest rate models as stochastic evolution equations in infinite dimensions. The book is comprised of three ...

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 ...

Governing Europe under a Constitution

the Hard Road from the european treaties to a european constitutional treaty

At the summit in Laeken in December 2001 the European Council opened the debate on the reform of the supranational structures through its 'Declaration on the Future of the European Union' and proposed a wide-ranging agenda. The European Convention, with the mandate of the European ...

Linear functional analysis

Providing an introduction to the ideas and methods of linear functional analysis, this book shows how familiar and useful concepts from finite- dimensional linear algebra can be extended or generalized to infinite- dimensional spaces. In the initial chapters, the theory of infinite- dimensional normed spaces ...

The challenges of tax reform in a global economy

Table of Contents: Ch. 1 Thinking about tax reform in the emerging global economy by James Alm and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Mark Rider Ch. 2 Taxation and income distribution : myth and realities by Arnold C. Harberger Ch. 3 Trade-offs between targeting and simplicity : lessons from ...

Welfare economics and social choice theory

Table of Contents: 1 Preferences and utility 2 Barter exchange 3 Welfare properties of market exchange 4 Welfare properties of "jungle" exchange 5 Economies with production 6 Uncertainty in exchange 7 Externalities 8 Public goods 9 Compensation criteria 10 Fairness and the rawls criterion 11 ...