Risk management and insurance

Understanding risk and its management are no longer exclusively the concerns of experts and insurance professionals. Everyone, at the personal and commercial levels, feels exposure to risks more viscerally after September 11, 2001. This 8th edition introduces the new worlds of risk and risk management ...

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 ...

Enciclopedia of diasporas

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 ...

Finite sample econometrics

ÍNDICE: 1.Introduction 2.Finite Sample Moments 3.Finite Sample Distributions 4.Regression Model 5.Models with Nonscalar Covariance Matrix of Errors 6.Dynamic Time Series Model 7.Simultaneous Equations Model

Credit, intermediation, and the macroeconomy

readings and perspectives in modern financial theory

This combination of explanatory discussion by leading financial economists and centrally important journal articles provides comprehensive and coherent coverage of the major issues in financial theory. It will help students to understand the functioning of the financial sector and the intermediary institutions that comprise it

Monetary Unions and hard pegs

effects on trade, financial development, and stability

Eds. Volbert Alexander, Jacques Mélitz, George M. Von Furstenberg This book analyses formal approaches to overcoming monetary divisions within countries and within integrating regions, focusing on the consequences of monetary union for trade among union members and their financial development and stability ÍNDICE:PART I ...

Arbitrage theory in continuous time

This accessible introduction to the mathematical underpinnings of finance concentrates on the probabilistic theory of continuous arbitrage pricing of financial derivatives, including stochastic optimal control theory, and Merton's fund separation theory. It includes a solved example for every new technique presented, numerous exercises, and ...

Economics of business policy

Introducción al estudio de la autonomía colectiva

La idea de concreción en el Derecho y en la ciencia jurídica actuales

Derecho comunitario

Esta obra pretende acercar al lector a este orden jurídico nuevo que, en la actualidad, impregna la vida social, política yeconómica. de todos los ciudadanos de la Unión Europea. El libro comienza por trazar la génesis y evolución histórica de las Comunidades Europeas, para, seguidamente ...

Manufacturing culture

the institutional geography of industrial practice

Why are firms in some regions or nations so successful at adopting particular new production technologies and work practices, while those in other places are not? What role do culturally defined characteristics, traits, and attitudes play in determining the degree of success in this process ...

Corporate finance, mergers & adquisitions

Commercial Law

Family law

The ultimate rule of Law

The Oxford handbook of jurisprudence and philosophy of Law

The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law brings together specially commissioned essays by twenty-six of the foremost legal theorists currently writing, to provide a state-of-the-art overview of jurisprudential scholarship. Each author presents an account of the contending views and scholarly debates animating their ...

The structure of regulatory competition

corporations and public policies in a global economy

In order to understand international economic regulations, it is essential to understand the variation in competing corporations' interests. This book's theoretical findings open a 'black box' in the literature on international political economy and elucidate a source of regulatory differences and similarities. Its counter-intuitive ...