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Garantías a primera demanda

contratación internacional e interna

El presente trabajo se incardina en el ámbito del Derecho Uniforme del Comercio Internacional, disciplina jurídica que experimenta un notable crecimiento, cuyas normas materiales van paulatinamente substituyendo al tradicional sistema conflictual.

Economic growth and macroeconomic dynamics

recent developments in economic theory

The development of the endogenous growth model rekindled interest in growth theory. In contrast to the neo-classical model, long-run endogenous growth emerged as an equilibrium outcome, reflecting the behavior of optimizing agents in the economy. This book brings together a number of contributions in growth ...

The economics of self-employment and entrepreneurship

As self-employment and entrepreneurship become increasingly important in our modern economies, Simon C. Parker provides a timely, definitive and comprehensive overview of the field. In this book he brings together and assesses the large and disparate literature on these subjects and provides an up-to-date overview ...

The economics of overtime working

Numerous individuals throughout international labour markets work hours in excess of their standard contractual hours. Overtime working is a vital consideration in the employment and wage decisions of many households and firms. From a policy perspective, overtime is at the centre of interest in the ...

Growing public

social spending and economic growth since the eigteenth century.Vol.I.The story

Growing Public examines the question of whether social policies that redistribute income impose constraints on economic growth. Taxes and transfers have been debated for centuries, but only now can we get a clear view of the whole evolution of social spending. What kept prospering nations ...

Stochastic optimization in continuous time

Most of the current books on stochastic control theory are written for students in mathematics or finance. This introduction is designed, however, for those interested in the relevance and applications of the theory's mathematical principles to economics. Therefore, mathematical methods are discussed intuitively and ...

State space and unobserved component models

theory and applications

This volume offers a broad overview of the state-of-the-art developments in the theory and applications of state space modeling. With fourteen chapters from twenty-three contributors, it offers a unique synthesis of state space methods and unobserved component models that are important in a wide range ...

Macroeconomía

Global capital markets

integration, crisis, and growth

This book presents an economic survey of international capital mobility from the late nineteenth century to the present. ÍNDICE: Part I. Preamble: 1. Global capital markets: overview and origins: 1.1 Theoretical benefits.1.2 Problems of supernational capital markets in practice.1.3 The ...

Sectoral systems of innovation

concepts, issues and analyses of six major sectors in Europe

Innovation and technological change show different rates, types and trajectories depending on the sector in which they take place. Agents and institutions of a sector all exert a major influence on innovation. With contributions from nineteen experts in their field, this book proposes the framework ...

Building high-tech clusters

Silicon Valley and beyond

National economic growth is fueled by the development of high technology clusters such as Silicon Valley. The contributors examine the founding of ten clusters that have been successful at an early stage of growth in information technology. Their key finding is that the economics of ...

Prices,reproduction,scarcity

In this definitive and exhaustive study, Christian Bidard develops a theory of prices of production. This theory, of classical inspiration, breaks down the symmetry between producers and consumers and gives more importance to reproduction rather than scarcity. In his analysis of multiple-product systems, Bidard focuses ...

Wassily Leontief and input-output economics

Wassily Leontief (1905-1999) was the founding father of input-output economics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1973. This book offers a collection of papers in memory of Leontief by his students and close colleagues. ÍNDICE : 1. A portrait of the master as a ...

Data envelopment analysis

theory and techniques for economics and operation research

Using the neo-classical theory of production economics as the analytical framework, this book provides a unified and easily comprehensible, yet fairly rigorous, exposition of the core literature on data envelopment analysis (DEA) for readers based.in different disciplines INDICE 1. Introduction and overview; 2. Productivity ...

The political economy of Stalinism

evidence from the Soviet secret archives

This book uses the formerly secret Soviet state and Communist Party archives to describe the creation and operations of the Soviet administrative command system. It concludes that the system failed not because of the 'jockey'(i.e. Stalin and later leaders) but because of the ...

Gambling in America

costs and benefits

Gambling in America carefully breaks new ground by developing analytical tools to assess the benefits and costs of the economic and social changes introduced by casino gambling in monetary terms, linking them to individual households' utility and well-being. Since casinos are associated with unintended and ...

Las joyas de las reinas de España

la desconocida historia de las alhajas reales

El gran engaño

ineficacia y deshonestidad: Estados Unidos ante el siglo XXI

Manuel Aznar

periodista y diplomático

Pinochet

los archivos secretos

Peter Kornbluh, director del National Security Archive's Chile Documentation Project, ha conseguido que se desclasificaran más de 24.000 documentos secretos procedentes de la Secretaría de Estado y de la CIA, sobre la cobertura prestada por Nixon y Kissinger al general Pinochet y a ...