Política monetaria

II: Enfoques alternativos

INDICE: 1.La teoría de la política monetaria y financiera (I): la teoría cuantitativa del dinero 2.La teoría de la política monetaria y financiera (II): el enfoque de J.M.Keynes 3.La teoría de la política monetaria y financiera (III): distintas corrientes keynesianas ...

Modeling pension system

The issue of unfunded public pension systems has moved to the centre of public debate all over the world. Unfortunately, a large part of the discussions have remained on a qualitative level. This book seeks to address this by providing detailed knowledge on modelling pension ...

Asymmetric information in financial markets

introduction and applications

Asymmetric information (the fact that borrowers have better information than their lenders) and its theoretical and practical evidence now forms part of the basic tool kit of every financial economist. It is a phenomenon that has major implications for a number of economic and financial ...

Ejercicios de microeconomía

cuestiones y problemas

La elaboración de un libro de Ejercicios de Microeconomía, resueltos y comentados la mitad de ellos, está pensada para un curso de Microeconomía básica, sin abordar, por tanto, aspectos de una mayor complejidad que son objeto de atención en ediciones destinadas a cursos superiores o ...

Análisis microeconómico

equilibrio parcial

Esta obra es el resultado de una larga experiencia docente universitaria. Los cambios sin procedentes que experimenta el mundo actual alcanzan también el proceso enseñanza-aprendizaje, tendiendo a fortalecer el protagonismo de los alumnos con una visión de la enseñanza mas centrada en ellos. Esto implica ...

Intermediate microeconomics

and its application

Intermediate Microeconomics and Its Applications provides a clear and concise introduction to the ways in which economists study the operations of markets. This well-known author's signature is to provide a text that is accessible to the students, but still enables them to learn "the ...

The entrepreneur

an economic theory

This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Mark Casson's "The Entrepreneur" presents a novel synthesis of the ideas of Joseph Schumpeter, Frank Knight and Friedrich Hayek, according to which the defining characteristic of the entrepreneur is the exercise of judgement in business decisions. The ...

Entrepreneurial wage dynamics in the knowledge economy

This title challenges the conclusions that link entrepreneurship to lower employee compensation. This challenge is based on theories of entrepreneurship, which view the role of small firms as existing in a dynamic context rather than a static framework. The evolutionary theory of entrepreneurship views the ...

Entrepreneurism

a philosophy and a sensible alternative for the market economy

Contrary to traditional belief, entrepreneurism is not just about making money, nor is it merely about starting up a venture or owning a small business - it is a way of life, applicable to all human economic activities. Living on a planet with finite resources, humanity ...

The economic dynamics of fuel cell technologies

Due to their environmental and efficiency characteristics fuel cells are promising technological solutions for many energy related applications (stationary power generation, vehicle propulsion, portable equipment). This book describes the economic dynamics of fuel cells by analyzing their diffusion perspectives as well as the strategic and ...

Managerial economics

theory and practice

Managerial economics is the application of economic theory and quantitative methods (mathematics and statistics) to the managerial decision-making process. This book will appeal to students with limited prior training in economics and quantitative methods. It assumes that students will have had mathematics training at least ...

Small and medium sized companies in Europe

environmental performance, competitiveness and management: international EU case studies

The environmental performance of SMEs (Small and Medium sized Enterprises) is an area of major policy concern. SMEs in Europe reports on factors influencing the environmental performance of SMEs across four European countries: the UK, Ireland, Germany and Italy. While there are a range of ...

Handbook of entrepreneurship research

an interdisciplinary survey and introduction

The purpose of the International Handbook of Entrepreneurship is to bring together leading scholars from each of these disciplines to provide an overview of what the issues are for entrepreneurship when viewed through the lens provided by the academic disciplines as well as a synthesis ...

Growth, industrial organisation and economic generalities

This compedium of essays brings together some of William Baumol's most distinguished and acclaimed papers with some that are more rare, including a discussion of the growth and innovation mechanism that accounts for the unprecedented growth performance of the market economies. Amongst many other ...

Competitiveness strategy in developing countries

a manual for policy anaysis

This text seeks to generalize the lessons across developing country and enterprise cases, and sheds light on which trade and industrial strategies and instruments work best, and which do not work, in relation to manufacturing competitiveness. INDICE Part I Introduction, Concepts and Benchmarking: 1. Ganeshan ...

Los desafíos de la competitividad

la innovación organizativa y tecnológica de la empresa española

Ed. Emilio Huerta Arribas. Conocer la naturaleza y extensión de los cambios tecnológicos y las innovaciones organizativas, describir las nuevas prácticas de gestión de los recursos humanos, analizar los factores asociados a su implantación y reconocer las estrategias que las empresas españolas utilizan para mejorar ...

A general theory of entrepreneurship

the individual-opportunity nexus

In this volume, Scott Shane extends the analysis of entrepreneurship by offering an overarching conceptual framework that explains the different parts of the entrepreneurial process - the opportunities, the people who pursue them, the skills and strategies used to organize and exploit opportunities, and the environmental ...

Genetic and cultural evolution of cooperation

Current thinking in evolutionary biology holds that competition among individuals is the key to understanding natural selection. When competition exists, it is obvious that conflict arises; the emergence of cooperation, however, is less straightforward and calls for in-depth analysis. Much research is now focused on ...

The principal agent model

the economic theory of incentives

The economics of asymmetric inormation has been the most important new tool of economic analysis and has proved powerful in explaining many aspects of the functioning of the economy.

Análisis del entorno económico de la empresa

Las empresas, los consumidores, los inversores, los políticos y, en general, todos los ciudadanos deben tomar continuamente decisiones económicas que se ven afectadas, en mayor o menor medida, por el grado de dinamismo del entorno económico del país en el que desarrollan sus actividades. En ...