Legal academics

culture and identities

Nationalist Politics in Europe

The Constitutional and Electoral Dimensions

Financial modelling with jump processes

During the last decade, financial models based on jump processes have acquired increasing popularity in risk management and option pricing. Much has been published on the subject, but the technical nature of most papers makes them difficult for nonspecialists to understand, and the mathematical tools ...

Instituciones de Derecho privado

Tomo VI: Mercantil. Volumen 2º: Derecho de sociedades: Parte especial (I)

Commercial and mercantile courts litigation practice

The future of economic growth

as new becomes old

'How significant was the internet boom and bust? Robert Boyer brings significant and fresh insight to efforts to situate the meaning of the digital transformation through which we are living. With analytic discipline and historical perspective, Boyer provides an important interpretation that will be valuable ...

Recent developments in growth theory

This two volume collection examines the major developmen in growth theory over the past decade. Key papers by leading scholars cover new trends in theoretical and empirical research.

How cartels endure and how they fail

studies of industrial collusion

#This book is about one of the most elusive problems in industrial organization # why some collusive agreements flourish while others fail. It brings together, in one place, much of the best recent work in the literature on this topic. I think the book will become ...

Empirical industrial organization

This two volume collection presents the most important recent articles on empirical issues in industrial organization, related primirily to analysis of imperfect competition.

Global governance of drug and pharmaceutical industries

transatlantic, trilateral and multilateral policy cooperation for drug safety

The recultion of drug safety and the governance of globalization in the pharmaceutical industry present growing challenges for govermments, the viotechnology sector and civil society. Currently, regulation and policy is driven by the interests of industrialized nations. However recent conflicts over patents, generics, and emerging ...

Profetas del miedo

aproximación al terrorismo islamista

Profetas del miedo, ofrece una aproximación sencilla, y a la vez rigurosa, al terrorismo de inspiración islamista. En sus páginas se describen sus orígenes, sus objetivos y su probable evolución en el futuro cercano. Se indaga en la motivación de los terroristas suicidas y se ...

European collaboration in research and development

business strategy and public policy

#[This book] addresses the relevant topic of collaborations in research and development at two complementary levels. First, it focuses on their determinants, performance and impact through a survey of more than 500 companies in seven European countries and through case studies on several research joint ...

El objeto del veredicto en la L.O. 5/1995, de 22 de mayo, del Tribunal del Jurado

Sabido es, que el Jurado, en su configuración constitucional y desde una perspectiva jurídico-política, es concebido como un derecho del ciudadano a participar en la Administración de Justicia y un deber de colaboración con los Tribunales en la función de juzgar. El modelo de Jurado ...

Ius Gentium

Localised learning and cluster capabilities

organisation of knowledge and constitution of regional competitive adventage

Based upon a novel synthesis of theorecal fields, spanning from organisational economics, economic sociology and old institutionalism to the resoruce-based and knowledge-based approaches to the firm, localised learning and cluster capabilities offers a systematic and critical evaluation of the cluster thesis. The book's exposition ...

International handbook on the economics of education

This book is unique as it presents an academic and a practical aspect on managing pension funds to clarify the global debate on social security. The authors establish the basic choices in designating any system to help policy makers develop the system that achieves their ...

The welfare economics in public policy

a practical approach to project and policy evaluation

This outstanding text, a follow up to the authors' 1982 text, develops economic welfare theory in the context of application to public policy questions. The authors provide a complete treatment of economic welfare theory and ilustrate how this theory can be used to develop policy ...

International handbook of land and property taxation

Taxes on land and property exist all over the world in many forms and are an important source of finance for local governments. The extent to which local governments have control over property taxes is often an important determinant of their ability to make autonomous ...

The politics of regulation

institutions and regulatory reforms for the age of governance

This book suggests that the scope and breadth of regulatory reforms since the mid-1980s and particularly during the 1990s, are so striking that they necessitate a reappraisal of current approaches to the study of the politics of regulation. The authors call for the adoption of ...

Environmental policy and fiscal federalism

selected essays of Wallace E.Oates

Wally Oates is one of the most important scholars in both environmental economics and public finance and this new volume of his essays collects together his best recent research in both these areas, covering theory, research and policy. The first half of the book includes ...