Introducing Monte Carlo methods with R

Computational techniques based on simulation have now become an essential part of the statistician's toolbox. It is thus crucial to provide statisticians with a practical understanding of those methods, and there is no better way to develop intuition and skills for simulation than to ...

Trends and issues in global tourism

Eds. Roland Conrady, Martin Buck. This book offers insights into important trends and future scenarios in the global tourism and travel industry and analyses current challenges in the aviation and hospitality industry, destination management and general travel behaviour. Well-known notabilities share their points of view ...

Water footprint and virtual water trade in Spain

policy implications

Auts. Alberto Garrido...[et al]. CONTENTS: Introduction.- Literature review.- Methodology.- Data and Limitations.- Water Footprint of Spain.- Net Virtual Water 'Flow'.- Bringing the analysis to the policy context.- Summary and Conclusions.

The cooperative game theory of networks and hierarchies

Cooperative Game Theory.- The Core of a Cooperative Game.- Axiomatic Value Theory.- The Cooperative Potential.- Directed Communication Networks.- Cooperative Theories of Hierarchical Organizations.

Commercial Law of the European Union

The volume of European Union legal acts relating to commercial law is staggering. This book provides a clear and concise overview of the vast bulk of European Union business law, giving extensive coverage to both legislation and the decisions of the Court of Justice. The ...

Founding a company

handbook of legal forms in Europe

Eds. Michael J. Munkert, Stephan Stubner, Torsten Wulf. The book "Founding a Company - Handbook of Legal Forms in Europe" provides an easily accessible overview of the most important information any entrepreneur or manager needs when deciding for a legal form of the business. This makes ...

The global cybercrime industry

economic, institutional and strategic perspectives

This book is about the global cybercrime industry, which according to some estimates, is a US$1 trillion industry and is growing rapidly. It examines economic and institutional processes in the cybercrime industry, provides insights into the entrepreneurial aspect of firms engaged in cyber-criminal activities ...

Enterprise risk management models

Enterprise risk management has always been important. However, the events of the 21st Century have made it even more critical. The top level of business management became suspect after scandals at ENRON, WorldCom, and other business entities. Financially, many firms experienced difficulties from bubbles. The ...

Decentralized development in Latin America

experiences in local governance and local development

Eds. Paul van Lindert, Otto Verkoren. Table of Contents: Foreword: David Hulme.- Chapter 1: Paul van Lindert & Otto Verkoren: Local governance and local development in Latin America: views from above and below.- Section one: Urban perspectives.- Chapter 2: Axel Borsdorf & Rodrigo Hidalgo: From polarisation to ...

Designing public policies

an approach based on multi-criteria analysis and computable general equilibrium modeling

This book presents a methodological approach for the joint design of economic and environmental policies. The starting point is the observation that, in practice, policy makers do not usually have a well- defined objective, but they are typically concerned about a number of economic and ...

American immigration policy

confronting the nation's challenges

The mission of this book is to counter the apocalyptic vision of the American 'invasion' with a more balanced account of the consequences of immigration. The book will examine how the United States has dealt with immigration through enactment of various public policies over time ...

Essays on port economics

Eds. Pablo Coto-Millán, Miguel Ángel Pesquera, Juan Castanedo. The aim of this book is to offer a comprehensive overview of the economics of ports for scientists, students and professionals. The text is divided into five self-contained parts: the first chapter defines the demand for port ...

The economics of Foreign Exchange and global finance

CONTENTS: Foreign Exchange Markets and Foreign Exchange Rates.- Exchange Rate Regimes and International Monetary Systems.- International Parity Conditions.- Balance of Payments and International Investment Positions.- Open Economy Macroeconomics.- Balance of Payments Issues and Exchange Rate Movements.- The Mundell-Fleming-Model.- The Flexible Price Monetary Model.- The Dornbusch ...

Financial and insurance formulas

This survey contains more than 3,000 formulas and methods from the field of finance and insurance mathematics (as well as related formulas in mathematics, probability theory, statistics, econometrics, index numbers, demography, stochastic processes and time series). The formulas are mostly applicable in financial and ...

Economic dynamics

This fourth edition of Gandolfo' s masterful book on economic dynamics is the premier source on dynamic mathematical tools for economists, with illustrations from many areas of current economic research. Not only is the book valuable as an encyclopedic reference book for researchers but is ...

Price regulation and risk

the impact of regulation system shifts on risk components

Natural monopolies are not subject to the market-based principle of competition. Consequently, it is necessary to control companies in such monopoly positions with regard to their pricing. In the future, it will become more and more important to consider a possible change in the regulation ...

Nouvelles normes financiéres

s'organiser face à la crise

Dir. Christian Walter. La crise financière de 2008 a placé l'ensemble des règles comptables et prudentielles de la finance sur le banc des accusés. Or ces normes qui règlent la vie du monde financier ont subi une profonde refonte depuis les années 1990. Devant ...

The quintessence of strategic management

what you really need to know to survive in business

Having read this book: You will have a basic understanding of strategy and the process of strategic management. You will know the most important strategy tools (including the respective original literature) and how they interact. You will be aware of the focal areas and considerations ...

On the limits of Constitutional Adjudication

deconstructing balancing and judicial activism

Juliano Z. Benvindo investigates the current movement of constitutional courts towards political activism, especially by focusing on the increasing use of the balancing method as a 'rational' justification for this process. From the critical perception of the serious risks of this movement to democracy, this ...

National regulation of space activities

Ed. Ram S. Jakhu. This book comprehensively addresses all aspects of national space laws and regulations governing the conduct of space activities in fifteen space-faring nations. This is the first book of its kind that contains a compilation of materials written from a neutral and ...

Risk management in credit portfolios

concentration risk and basel II

Risk concentrations play a crucial role for the survival of individual banks and for the stability of the whole banking system. Thus, it is important from an economical and a regulatory perspective to properly measure and manage these concentrations. In this book, the impact of ...

Rational decision making

This textbook conveys methods that can improve decision making processes in various fields such as economics, politics, and medicine as well as in personal life. Exercises from daily life help the reader to understand the key insights from decision analysis.