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The structures of wages

an international comparison

Eds. Edward P. Lazear, Kathryn L. Shaw. The distribution of income, the rate of pay raises, and the mobility of employees is crucial to understanding labor economics. Although research abounds on the distribution of wages across individuals in the economy, wage differentials within firms remain ...

The Age of Aging

how demographics are changing the global economy and our world

The year 2008 marks the beginning of the baby boomer retirement avalanche just as the different demographics in advanced and most developing countries are becoming more pronounced. People are worrying again that developments in global population trends, food supply, natural resource availability and climate change ...

Marketing to the social web

how digital customer communities build your business

From Facebook and YouTube to blogs and Twitter-ing, social media on the Internet is the most promising new way to reach customers. "Marketing to the Social Web, Second Edition" helps marketers and their companies understand how to engage customers, build customer communities, and maximize profits ...

Getting China and India Right

strategies for leveraging the world's fastest-growing economies for global advantage

This book is the first strategic guide for multi-national corporations (MNCs) who are contemplating expanding into both China and India. Gupta and Wang explain how many MNCs view China and India solely from the lens of off-shoring and cost-reduction, and focusing their marketing strategies on ...

Seeing the elephant

understanding globalization from trunk to tail

Thanks to globalization, more countries depend on each other for trade, capital, and ideas than ever before. Yet politically, these countries are drifting further apart. In "Seeing the Elephant", author and emerging markets expert Peter Marber describes how increasing economic integration and the rise of ...

A fast-track to structured finance modeling, monitoring, and valutaion

jump start VBA

This book is designed to start with simple examples that progressively develop the reader's confidence to take on more complex tasks. There is very little theoretical discussion about computer science, operations research algorithms, mathematics, or finance. The thrust of the book is to teach ...

The travels of a T-Shirt in the global economy

an economist examines the markets, power, and politics of world trade

"The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy" has been lauded by the "New York Times", "Financial Times", and reviewers worldwide. Translated in fourteen languages, "Travels" has received numerous awards for its frank and nuanced discussion of global economic realities. Now updated and revised ...

The social network business plan

18 strategies that will create great wealth

All of us know that users of the Web do not read advertisements on the websites we visit, yet the online communities are emerging as the next great media rely solely on this method to produce revenue. In "The Social Network Business Plan", social network ...

Own the world

how smart investors create global portfolios

Global investing isn't new. In fact, investors have been looking to overseas markets for hundreds of years, and with good reason. A global portfolio bestows innumerable rewards on the savvy investor, yet we in the US remain woefully under exposed to foreign equities. Despite ...

Trade options online

In this fully updated book, options trading innovator George Fontanills arms you with the knowledge and skills you need to unleash the phenomenal power of your computer to become a successful online options trader. Following a concise review of the basics of online trading - including ...

Operational risk toward Basel III

best practices and issues in modeling, management and regulation

Ed. Greg N. Gregoriou. This book consists of chapters by contributors (well-known professors, practitioners, and consultants from large and well respected money management firms within this area) offering the latest research in the OpRisk area. The chapters highlight how operational risk helps firms survive and ...

Expert fraud investigation

a step-by-step guide

A fraud investigation is aimed at examining evidence to determine if a fraud occurred, how it happened, who was involved, and how much money was lost. Investigations occur in cases ranging from embezzlement, to falsification of financial statements, to suspicious insurance claims. "Expert Fraud Investigation ...

Earth

the sequel: the race to reinvent energy and stop global warming

"The New York Times" bestseller on how to harness the great forces of capitalism to save the world from catastrophe is now available with a new afterword. The forecasts are grim and time is running out but that's not the end of the story ...

Equity and the Law of trusts

This well-established and respected textbook has been relied upon by students and academic scholars for the last 40 years. Praised for the clarity of the writing, the comprehensive scope of the content and the high level of critical analysis, Professor Philip Pettit builds on the ...

Asset pricing theory

"Asset Pricing Theory" is an advanced textbook for doctoral students and researchers that offers a modern introduction to the theoretical and methodological foundations of competitive asset pricing. Costis Skiadas develops in depth the fundamentals of arbitrage pricing, mean-variance analysis, equilibrium pricing, and optimal consumption/portfolio ...

An introduction to mathematical analysis for economic theory and econometrics

Providing an introduction to mathematical analysis as it applies to economic theory and econometrics, this book bridges the gap that has separated the teaching of basic mathematics for economics and the increasingly advanced mathematics demanded in economics research today. Dean Corbae, Maxwell B. Stinchcombe, and ...

Playbooks and checkbooks

an introduction to the economics of modern sports

What economic rules govern sports? How does the sports business differ from other businesses? "Playbooks and Checkbooks" takes a fascinating step-by-step look at the fundamental economic relationships shaping modern sports. Focusing on the ways that the sports business does and does not overlap with economics ...

Tocqueville's political economy

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) has long been recognized as a major political and social thinker as well as historian, but his writings also contain a wealth of little-known insights into economic life and its connection to the rest of society. In "Tocqueville's Political Economy ...

Connections

an introduction to the economics of networks

Networks pervade social and economic life, and they play a prominent role in explaining a huge variety of social and economic phenomena. Standard economic theory did not give much credit to the role of networks until the early 1990s, but since then the study of ...

The Right to rule

how states win and lose legitimacy

Popular perceptions of a state's legitimacy are inextricably bound to its ability to rule. Vast military and material reserves cannot counter the power of a citizen's belief, and the more widespread the crisis of a state's legitimacy, the greater the threat to ...