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Cognitive economics

an interdisplicinary approach

The social sciences study knowing subjects and their interactions. A "cognitive turn", based on cognitive science, has the potential to enrich these sciences considerably. Cognitive economics belongs within this movement of the social sciences. It aims to take into account the cognitive processes of individuals ...

Understanding competitive advantage

the importance of strategic congruence and integrated control

This book is about competitive advantage and how it is created at the company level. Our theoretical starting point is that the alignment of strategies and control systems affects the firm's chances of successfully positioning itself in its chosen area of competition. The firm ...

Pure economics loss

Today, pure economic loss is probably one of the main problems in expanding tort law. In some countries, it is associated with uncontrollable and unforeseeable floods of claims to which there may be no end. In this book, leading authors shed light on the subject ...

Globalization of financial markets

causes of incomplete integration and consequences for economic policy

The internationalization of financial markets is one of the focal points in the discussion about recent globalization trends. These discussions suggest that capital can move freely between countries. However, there is ample evidence that national borders do matter and that there are many implicit and ...

The internationalisation of young high-tehc firms

an empirical analysis in Germany and the United Kindom

The huge economic and social impact of high-tech industries on the fortunes of nation states has been widely recognised in recent years. Therefore, government policies encouraging the creation of new technology-based firms have become a priority in virtually all advanced economies. One factor underpinning the ...

The role of multinational enterprises in globalization

This book offers a framework for analyzing the increased economic integration of countries which is mainly driven by multinational enterprises. They compete with other companies from different countries on many markets and through various channels. The book starts by discussing the stylized facts of the ...

Dynamics stochastic optimization

This volume considers optimal stochastic decision processes from the viewpoint of stochastic programming. It focuses on theoretical properties and on approximate or numerical solution techniques for time-dependent optimization problems with random parameters (multistage stochastic programs, optimal stochastic decision processes). Methods for finding approximate solutions of ...

Hedge fund of funds investing

an investor's guide

Hedge funds have rightly gained the attention of private and institutional investors in recent years, proving themselves as useful portfolio diversifiers and preservers of wealth while greatly dispelling their reputation as an "unsafe" investment. Yet investors attempting to navigate in the field of hedge funds ...

Competitive strategy

techniques for analyzing industries and competitors

Electrifying in its simplicity - like all great breakthroughs - COMPETITIVE STRATEGY captures the complexity of industry competition in five underlying forces. Author Michael Porter introduces one of the most powerful competitive tools yet developed: his three generic strategies - lowest cost, differentiation, and focus - which bring structure ...

Competitive advantage

creating and sustaining superior performance

COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE introduces a whole new way of understanding what a firm does. Porter's groundbreaking concept of the value chain disaggregates a company into 'activities', or the discrete functions or processes that represent the elemental building blocks of competitive advantage. Now an essential part ...

International relations since 1945

a global history

Apuleius

a latin sophist

Jews in a graeco-roman world

Money at its uses in the Ancient Greek World

European Union and the Race for Foreign Direct Investment in Europe

The purpose of the volume is to analyze the impact of European Union on inward foreign direct investment in Europe and to discuss what type of effects are being created by this race for FDI. The volume deals with two levels of discussion: First, by ...

Economic capital allocation with Basel II

Cost, benefit and implementation procedures

This book is a complimentary follow-on book to Operational Risk Control with Basel II. While the previous book focuses on operational risk, Economic Capital Allocation provides an overview of credit risk within the context of the Basel II accords. The book provides: -Comprehensive coverage of ...

Making sense of intellectual capital

designing a method for the valuation of intangibles

Peter Drucker has introduced us all to the knowledge era, where knowledge is the primary resource and intangibles (intellectual capital resources and assets) are now largely recognized as the most important sources of organizations' competitive advantage. With the recognition of the importance of Intangibles comes ...

Marketing wireless products

The city as an entertainment machine

This volume explores how consumption and entertainment change cities. But it reverses the "normal" causal process. That is, many chapters analyze how consumption and entertainment drive urban development, not vice versa. How? People both live and work in cities. And where they choose to live ...

European fixed income markets

money, bond, and interest rate derivatives

This book offers a clear, insightful perspective on the post-euro fixed-income markets of Europe. The introduction of the euro in 1999 cast a new focus on the financial markets of constituent euro-zone countries which have subsequently seen their domestic markets emerge as the second largest ...