Urban and regional transportation modeling

essays in honor of David Boyce

Honoring David Boyce for his legendary contributions to the fields of transportation modeling and regional science, the chapters in this festschrift highlight and analyze state-of-the-art and state-of- the-practice methodologies and theories in transportation modeling, regional and urban planning. Authors from academia and industry, all experts ...

The world's wine markets

globalizacion at work

This is a useful work which provides a comprehensive overwiew of the world's wine markets. Its particular strengths are its golobal coverage, its focus on both production and consuption, and the large number of charts and tables with which the volume is replete. With ...

The new American regionalism

This book provides a broad quantitative analysis of the new facets of regionalism in the Americas. In particular, major aspects of the New American Regionalism are discussed in terms of two basic notions: the genuine political character of economic integration schemes, and the profound inter-connectedness ...

International money relations in the new global economy

These volumes contain the best articles political scientists have published in recent years on international monetery relations. They cover every conceivable topic of interest, incluiding the domestic politics of capital mobility, monetary institutions, and policy cooperation.

International conflict and the global economy

The relationship between the global economy and national segurity has been and enduring source of interest and debate. This volume contains a set of pioneering studies that paved the way for contemporary work on the political economy of national security as well as some more ...

Strategic business alliances

an examination of the core dimensions

Strategic Business Alliances examines key issues in the analysis, management and performance of international joint ventures using a sample of UK-European equity joint ventures. The authors consider the viewpoint of all configurations of the international joint venture # UK parent, European parent and joint venture management ...

Multinational firms' location and the new economic geography

The choice of location for the production plants of multinational firms is an important issue, not least because this decision is accompanied by so many fears brought into public debate. This book analyses how foreign direct investors choose their locations, whilst exploring the forces which ...

Law,economics and cyberspace

the effects of cyberspace on the economic analysis of law

This book is not only the best kind of law and economics, but it is the best kind of cyberspace law and economics. By framing the economic analysis around market failures, the authors demonstrate both the power and limits of economic analysis. And by applying ...

The law and economics of antitrust and intellectual property

an Austrian approach

Dina Kallay#s work is a pathbreaking application of Austrian economics to one of the most important regulatory issues facing globalizing economies # a refreshingly novel perspective on the intersection between intellectual property and antitrust law.# # Ronald J. Mann, University of Texas School of Law, US ...

Los consorcios administradores de zonas francas

el Consorcio de la Zona Franca de Vigo

Los Consorcios de Zonas Francas (entidades a quiénes se encomienda en nuestro país la gestión de tales áreas aduaneras exentas) aparecen como una de las más atípicas especies de entre las que integran la actual organización administrativa. Anclados todavía en normas que se remontan a ...

Responsabilidad de los establecimientos hoteleros por los efectos introducidos por los clientes

New perspectives on economic crime

Edited by Hans Sjögren and Göran Skogh Economic crime is, by definition, crime committed to gain profit within an otherwise legitimate business. Examples are illegal pollution, brand name infringement and tax evasion. The victims of such crimes may be private citizens, businesses and the state ...

Changing institutions in the European Union

a public choice perspective

This book makes a valuable, analytical contribution to recent debates on the ongoing institutional changes occurring within the European Union. It provides a comprehensive and diverse insight into a variety of areas, including in-depth studies of fiscal, monetary and voting issues, to help elucidate the ...

Saving social security

a balanced approach

While everyone agrees that Social Security is a vital and necessary government program, there have been widely divergent plans for reforming it. Peter A. Diamond and Peter R. Orszag, two of the nation#s foremost economists, propose a reform plan that would rescue the program ...

Restoring fiscal sanity

how to balance the budget

America will face persistent, annual deficits of over half a trillion dollars over the next decade. If current policies continue, these deficits will slow economic growth, reduce household incomes, and impose enormous burdens on the next generation. To address the problem, a team of Brookings ...

Lessons from deregulation

telecommunications and airlines after the crunch

Over the last several years, the value of stocks in both the airline and the telecommunications industries have dropped catastrophically. Since these industries were among the most important#and most visible#to have been unleashed from regulation in recent decades (albeit in widely differing degree ...

Introduzione all'egittologia

Comercio exterior agrario

fundamentos y análisis

The European Union

economics and policies

The European Union is designed for readers from all disciplines studying the EU, its economics and policies, and the effects of economic integration. Its wealth of information, detail and analysis will ensure that it is read by students, researchers and professional policymakers alike. The European ...

The new finance

overreaction complexity and uniqueness

This brief text makes the case for the inefficient market and the complexity and chaos on asset pricing, positioning the efficient market paradigm at the extreme end of a spectrum of possible states. It presents a comprehensive and organized collection of the evidence contradicting market ...