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Early Modern jewry

a new cultural history

"Early Modern Jewry" boldly offers a new history of the early modern Jewish experience. From Krakow and Venice to Amsterdam and Smyrna, David Ruderman examines the historical and cultural factors unique to Jewish communities throughout Europe, and how these distinctions played out amidst the rest ...

Principles of european Law. Vol.6

Injustified Enrichment (PEL Unj.Enr.)

Prepared by Christian von Bar and Stephen Swann. The Study Group on a European Civil Code has taken upon itself the task of drafting common European principles for the most important aspects of the law of obligations and for certain parts of the law of ...

The global M&A tango

how to reconcile cultural differences in mergers, acquisitions and strategic partnerships

Cross-cultural issues assume huge significance in any cross-national merger and acquisition activity. M&A is one of the key instruments of globalization and a critical route to business and economic growth and yet the vital cultural issues are all too frequently buried beneath management obsession ...

Of the limits of the penal branch of jurisprudence

Ed. Philip Schofield. Of the Limits of the Penal Branch of Jurisprudence, written in 1780-2, is the continuation of An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, and thus part of the introduction to the projected penal code on which Bentham worked in the ...

Cash CDO modelling in Excel

a step by step approach

With CD-ROM. This book is an introduction to the modelling of cash collateralised debt obligations ("CDOs"). It is intended that the reader have a basic understanding of CDOs and a basic working knowledge of Microsoft Office Excel. There will be written explanations of concepts along ...

Reforma de la arquitectura financiera internacional

Coords. José Antonio Alonso, Santiago Fernández de Lis, Federico Steinberg. Tras un largo año de tensiones en los mercados capitales, la quiebra de Lehman Brothers, en septiembre de 2008, puso al sistema financiero internacional al borde del colapso. La rápida reacción de las autoridades a ...

Marco teórico para la aplicación del enfoque basado en Derechos Humanos en la cooperación para el desarrollo

Coord. Celia Fernández Aller. El enfoque basado en derechos humanos es un marco conceptual y metodológico fundamentado normativamente en estándares internacionales de Derechos Humanos y operativamente dirigido a promover, proteger y hacerlos efectivos. Su novedad reside en definir un marco de acción, unas líneas estratégicas ...

Balancing the banks

global lessons from the financial crisis

The financial crisis that began in 2007 in the United States swept the world, producing substantial bank failures and forcing unprecedented state aid for the crippled global financial system. Bringing together three leading financial economists to provide an international perspective, "Balancing the Banks" draws critical ...

The known, the unknown, and the unknowable in financial risk management

measurement and theory advancing practice

Eds. Francis X. Diebold, Neil A. Doherty, Richard J. Herring. A clear understanding of what we know, don't know, and can't know should guide any reasonable approach to managing financial risk, yet the most widely used measure in finance today - Value at Risk ...

Labor markets and business cycles

"Labor Markets and Business Cycles" integrates search and matching theory with the neoclassical growth model to better understand labor market outcomes. Robert Shimer shows analytically and quantitatively that rigid wages are important for explaining the volatile behavior of the unemployment rate in business cycles. The ...

Reputation and power

organizational image and pharmaceutical regulation at the FDA

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is the most powerful regulatory agency in the world. How did the FDA become so influential? And how exactly does it wield its extraordinary power? "Reputation and Power" traces the history of FDA regulation of pharmaceuticals, revealing how ...

Working together

collective action, the commons, and multiple methods in practice

Advances in the social sciences have emerged through a variety of research methods: field-based research, laboratory and field experiments, and agent-based models. However, which research method or approach is best suited to a particular inquiry is frequently debated and discussed. "Working Together" examines how different ...

Economic sociology

a systematic inquiry

The sociological study of economic activity has witnessed a significant resurgence. Recent texts have chronicled economic sociology's nineteenth-century origins while pointing to the importance of context and power in economic life, yet the field lacks a clear understanding of the role that concepts at ...

Understanding the process of economic change

In this landmark work, a Nobel Prize-winning economist develops a new way of understanding the process by which economies change. Douglass North inspired a revolution in economic history a generation ago by demonstrating that economic performance is determined largely by the kind and quality of ...

Supreme power

Franklin Roosevelt vs. The Supreme Court

During Franklin Roosevelt's first term, a narrow conservative majority on the US Supreme Court struck down several key elements of the New Deal legislation. The ensuing fight engulfed the country. Roosevelt transformed the political and constitutional landscape, the New Deal was saved but the ...

Arte salvado

70 aniversario del salvamento del patrimonio artístico español y de la intervención internacional

Catálogo de la Exposición. Gran dormato con fotografías. La exposición Arte salvado.70 aniversario del salvamento del patrimonio artístico español y de la intervención internacional recupera y difunde una de las historias más apasionantes de la guerra civil: la protección y evacuación del patrimonio artístico ...

How judges think

A distinguished and experienced appellate court judge, Richard A. Posner offers in this new book a unique and, to orthodox legal thinkers, a startling perspective on how judges and justices decide cases. When conventional legal materials enable judges to ascertain the true facts of a ...

An introduction to International Criminal Law and procedure

Aut. Robert Cryer...[et al]. This market-leading textbook gives an authoritative account of international criminal law, and focuses on what the student needs to know - the crimes that are dealt with by international courts and tribunals as well as the procedures that police the investigation ...

The global cybercrime industry

economic, institutional and strategic perspectives

This book is about the global cybercrime industry, which according to some estimates, is a US$1 trillion industry and is growing rapidly. It examines economic and institutional processes in the cybercrime industry, provides insights into the entrepreneurial aspect of firms engaged in cyber-criminal activities ...

Enterprise risk management models

Enterprise risk management has always been important. However, the events of the 21st Century have made it even more critical. The top level of business management became suspect after scandals at ENRON, WorldCom, and other business entities. Financially, many firms experienced difficulties from bubbles. The ...