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Contemporary Issues in Commercial Policy - book by Kreinin, M.E. DESCRIPTION: New economic conditions brought about by political seachange, international trade agreements, and technological advances have posed new problems and challenges for many countries and trade communities. This book addresses a wide range of topical issues in commercial policy that will con... view more info and the price of this book. |
International Trade and the New Economic Order - book by Moncarz, R. DESCRIPTION: Problems of world trade are one of the many international economic challenges that still remain despite the development of the "new world order" over the past twenty years. Clearly, a workable economic order has not yet been achieved, and this book aims to explore the significance of va... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: "General-equilibrium" refers to an analytical approach which looks at the economy as a complete system of inter-dependent components (industries, households, investors, governments, importers and exporters). "Applied" means that the primary interest is in systems that can be used to pro... view more info and the price of this book. |
Economics of Technology - book by Granstrand, O. DESCRIPTION: The economics of technology has recently become established as a fast growing subject field. It commands a rapidly increasing interest, also among a new generation of scholars and students, catering to the old need to bridge the gap between economics and technology in practice. This vol... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: Defined and illustrated in this book is the measurement of productivity and the sources and effects of technological change for industries and enterprises. A general framework for analysis unites general assumptions about market structure and producer motivation with new econometric met... view more info and the price of this book. |
Relationships and Networks in International Markets - book by Gemunden, H.G.;Ritter, T.;Walter, A. DESCRIPTION: The book presents the most recent developments in international industrial and service marketing research, from a relationship and network perspective. While the latter perspective has a long tradition in Europe, "relationship marketing" has also in recent years become one of the domina... view more info and the price of this book. |
The New Research Frontiers of Communications Policy - book by Lamberton, D.M. DESCRIPTION: This timely volume provides a comprehensive view of the economic and social research frontiers of the telecommunications and information activities in the Information Age. New technologies and deregulation characterize this rapidly growing sector, which is assuming an increasingly inter... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: Travel & Tourism is the world's largest industry and generator of jobs, providing economic growth, investment and foreign trade on a global scale. This report, published by Pergamon in collaboration with WTTC and The WEFA Group, quantifies the financial contribution of Travel & ... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: This book is a collection of the best papers presented at the Seventh International Conference on the Management of Technology held in Orlando, Florida, February 16th to 20th 1998. All papers were evaluated by at least two referees and both referees needed to agree on the high quality o... view more info and the price of this book. |
Nonstationary Panels, Panel Cointegration, and Dynamic Panels - book by Baltagi, B.H. DESCRIPTION: This volume is dedicated to two recent intensive areas of research in the econometrics of panel data, namely nonstationary panels and dynamic panels. It includes a comprehensive survey of the nonstationary panel literature including panel unit root tests, spurious panel regressions and ... view more info and the price of this book. |
Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management, Volume 17 - book by Ferris, G.R. DESCRIPTION: Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management published monograph length conceptual papers designed to promote theory and research on important substantive and methodological topics in the field of human resources management and acts as a primary resource to both individuals and ... view more info and the price of this book. |
Advances in Global Leadership, Volume 1 - book by Mobley, W.H.;Gessner, M.J.;Arnold, V. DESCRIPTION: As organizations and leadership become more global, there are pressing needs for better developed conceptual models and definitions of what is meant by global leadership; better developed models, processes, and tools for developing global leaders; and a richer base of empirical evidence... view more info and the price of this book. |
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Organization Studies - book by Lindenberg, S.M.;Schreuder, H. DESCRIPTION: For the first time, prominent scholars of the major disciplines in organization studies come together to search for common ground. Economists, sociologists and psychologists put aside their disciplinary, their language and paradigm barriers, in seeking to address common problems and fin... view more info and the price of this book. |
Tourism: Towards a Behavioural Approach - book by Mansfeld, Y. DESCRIPTION: This monograph looks at the planning implications of a behavioural approach to the study of tourism. One of the main problems in planning tourism facilities is that of predicting tourists' expectations from these facilities and, hence, the potential of destinations to attract tourists. ... view more info and the price of this book. |
Ethics in Modeling - book by Wallace, W.A. DESCRIPTION: The use of mathematical models to support decision making is proliferating in both the public and private sectors. Advances in computer technology and greater opportunities to learn the appropriate techniques are extending modeling capabilities to more and more people. As powerful decis... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: The set of papers in this Handbook reflect the rich theory and wide range of applications of network models. Two of the most vibrant applications areas of network models are telecommunications and transportation. Several chapters explicitly model issues arising in these problem domains.... view more info and the price of this book. |
Fertility Dynamics - book by Tasiran, A.C. DESCRIPTION: This is one of the most comprehensive and statistically sophisticated economic studies of the fertility determining process. The volume examines the relationship between women's wage rates and men's income and fertility with duration analysis, using panel data from Sweden and the United... view more info and the price of this book. |
Marketing Strategies for Services - book by Kostecki, M.M. DESCRIPTION: What are the trends affecting the marketing of services? How is the current tendency towards customer orientation, globalization, deregulation and technological change determining the ways in which leading service firms conduct their marketing activities? Why is cross-sector fertilizati... view more info and the price of this book. |
Anthropology of Tourism - book by Nash, D. DESCRIPTION: This book is designed to give an overview and critical assessment of the developing field of tourism study in anthropology. It aims to engage the reader with questions that anthropologists have raised about tourist and the ways that they have dealt with them in their research. Basic res... view more info and the price of this book. |
Leisure Migration: A Sociological Study on Tourism - book by Borocz, J. DESCRIPTION: The book opens with an account of recent developments in the economic, political and cultural sociology of international tourism and goes on to analyse the relationships between international tourism and the broad economic determinants of the world system. The book aims to understand "l... view more info and the price of this book. |
Tourism and Religion - book by Vukonic, B. DESCRIPTION: The interrelationship of religion and tourism has barely been touched upon in scholarly research. This book aims to present and analyze this relationship from sociological, economic and anthropological perspectives. The religious tourist and categories of religiously motivated tourism a... view more info and the price of this book. |
Marketing Strategies: New Approaches, New Techniques - book by McDonald, M. DESCRIPTION: Marketing is continually having to adopt new approaches and techniques to respond to a changing business environment that is characterised by increasing consumer sophistication, deregulation, time-based competition, and lack of market growth. Such adaptive techniques have led to marked ... view more info and the price of this book. |
Vehicle Routing: Methods and Studies - book by Golden, B.L.;Assad, A.A. DESCRIPTION: This collection of original research papers is dedicated to the analysis and solution of vehicle routing problems. Vehicle routing is a branch of operations research that has attracted a great deal of research attention over the years. The accumulated body of knowledge has resulted in... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: One of the central problems in operations research and management science is how to quantify the effects of uncertainty about the future. This, the second volume in a series of handbooks, is devoted to models where chance events play a major role. The thirteen chapters survey topics in ... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: Collected together in this book are ten expository articles on the most important topics in optimization, written by leading experts in the field. The book provides a primary reference for those performing research in some area of optimization or for those who have an elementary basic k... view more info and the price of this book. |
Collective Choice and Social Welfare - book by Sen, A.K. DESCRIPTION: This book is concerned with the study of collective preference, in particular with the relationship between the objectives of social action and the preferences and aspirations of society's members. Professor Sen's approach is based on the assumption that the problem of collective choi... view more info and the price of this book. |
Measuring the Demand for Environmental Quality - book by Braden, J.B.;Kolstad, C.D. DESCRIPTION: The theory and practice of measuring consumer demand for environmental quality is comprehensively and practically reviewed in this book. It was perceived that there was a significant need for a book that was both theoretically rigorous yet could address the question of how to actually m... view more info and the price of this book. |
Measurement Error and Latent Variables in Econometrics - book by Wansbeek, T.;Meijer, E. DESCRIPTION: The book first discusses in depth various aspects of the well-known inconsistency that arises when explanatory variables in a linear regression model are measured with error. Despite this inconsistency, the region where the true regression coeffecients lies can sometimes be characterize... view more info and the price of this book. |
New Frontiers in Agricultural History - book by Kauffman, K.D. DESCRIPTION: This first volume in the series Advances in Agricultural Economic History, includes articles on the topics of Italian sharecropping, agricultural wage discrimination, factor endowment and contract choice, as well as new total factor productivity measures for the United States. TABLE O... view more info and the price of this book. |
Decision Inventory Package - book by Noori, H.;Anatol, F. DESCRIPTION: Advanced computer technology has resulted in the development of specialized inventory packages that have been successfully implemented by many institutions. These so-called "productivity packages" have gained popularity, but their use is limited in solving technical problems. For this r... view more info and the price of this book. |
The Political Economy of Government Debt - book by Verbon, H.A.A.;van Winden, F.A.A.M. DESCRIPTION: This analysis of the political economy of government debt is divided into two parts. The first part deals with theoretical issues. Topics covered include: behavioral aspects; long term debt strategy; the political economy of redistribution; a model of intergenerational redistribution; t... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: The chapters in this volume can be grouped into three parts. Part I provides an introductory course in the design and operation of computers and computer systems. It conveys a knowledge of the basic principles of computer systems along with perspectives on the history and future of comp... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: The essays collected in this volume present a broad survey of the state of the art in logistics systems research as viewed by a distinguished group of scholars. The book shows that logistics remains an active, vibrant subject of inquiry. The reasons for this continued development are t... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: This volume is a comprehensive treatment of a variety of public sector applications of OR methods. The papers are directed at bridging the gap between theory and practice, with an emphasis on a clear statement of where these methods have been used and were useful. The technical level is... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: Leading marketing scientists, with an MS/OR orientation, present in this book a state-of-the-art review of their area of expertise. The wide range of material spans the marketing discipline and represents excellent coverage of both what is known and what problem-areas present themselves... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: The Handbook of Finance is a primary reference work for financial economics and financial modeling students, faculty and practitioners. The expository treatments are suitable for masters and PhD students, with discussions leading from first principles to current research, with reference... view more info and the price of this book. |
European Economic Integration - book by Dewatripont, M.;Ginsburgh, V.A. DESCRIPTION: The effects and challenges of European integration are analyzed in this book, using a wide variety of research methods. Topics covered include macroeconometric and applied general equilibrium modelling, international trade and applied econometric analysis. Various contributions focus on... view more info and the price of this book. |
Handbook of Industrial Organization Volume 1 - book by Schmalensee, R.;Willig, R. DESCRIPTION: This handbook serves as a source, reference, and teaching supplement for industrial organization (or industrial economics), the broad field within microeconomics that focuses on business behavior and its implications both for market structures and processes, and for public policies towa... view more info and the price of this book. |
Handbook of Industrial Organization Volume 2 - book by Schmalensee, R.;Willig, R. DESCRIPTION: This handbook serves as a source, reference, and teaching supplement for industrial organization (or industrial economics), the broad field within microeconomics that focuses on business behavior and its implications both for market structures and processes, and for public policies towa... view more info and the price of this book. |
Explaining Economic Growth - book by Szirmai, A.;van Ark, B.;Pilat, D. DESCRIPTION: Presented in this volume is a collection of papers on economic growth and its explanations. Part I covers the central issues in the growth accounting tradition. It looks at the contribution of production factors to economic growth, such as capital, education and technical change, and at... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: The papers in this volume consider a general area of study known as network routing. The underlying problems are conceptually simple, yet mathematically complex and challenging. How can we best route material or people from one place to another? Or, how can we best design a system (e.g.... view more info and the price of this book. |
Labor Market Contracts and Institutions - book by Hartog, J.;Theeuwes, J. DESCRIPTION: This volume examines new theoretical developments in labour contracts and relates them to the actual content of such contracts, and to differences in labour contracts which depend on the specifics of the institutional environment in which they are negotiated. This study is done from an ... view more info and the price of this book. |
Global Telecommunications Strategies and Technological Changes - book by Pogorel, G. DESCRIPTION: The papers in this volume have been contributed by telecommunications professionals from all over the world. Telecom networks are flourishing even in the less-developed countries. The economic development in countries such as South-East Asia, is based on a swift implementation of techni... view more info and the price of this book. |
Macroeconomic Analysis of Environmental Policy - book by van Ierland, E.C. DESCRIPTION: The field of environmental economics has been developing quickly over the last few decades. Although environmental awareness is increasing day by day, and improvements in environmental policy are taking place, it will take a long time to solve these problems in a satisfying way.This boo... view more info and the price of this book. |
Panel Data and Labour Market Dynamics - book by Bunzel, H.;Jensen, P.;Westergard-Nielsen, N. DESCRIPTION: The contributions in this volume, by leading economists from major universities in Europe and USA, cover research at the front line of econometric analysis and labour market applications. The volume includes several papers on equilibrium search models (a relatively new field), and job m... view more info and the price of this book. |
Learning and Strategic Product Innovation - book by Gruber, H. DESCRIPTION: The aim of this book is to highlight a number of separate issues in the analysis of product innovation and the implications for firm behaviour. This is done by taking a close look at the semiconductor industry, where product innovation is undertaken frequently and the innovation cycles ... view more info and the price of this book. |
Principles of Macroeconometric Modeling - book by Klein, L.R.;Welfe, W.;Welfe, A. DESCRIPTION: Two important new developments have occurred that have significant impact on the evolution of econometrics, namely, the end of the Cold War and the emergence of the information revolution in nearly all economies of the world. The information revolution has had significant effect on dat... view more info and the price of this book. |
A Study of Economic Reform - book by Silverstone, B.;Bollard, A.;Lattimore, R. DESCRIPTION: The purpose of this volume is to study the economic reforms which took place in New Zealand during the decade, beginning 1984. The integrated chapters cover economic outcomes, sectors and policies. The papers, which have been written by some 19 economists from universities, research ins... view more info and the price of this book. |
International Environmental Economics - book by van Ierland, E.C. DESCRIPTION: International policy making in the field of environmental economics is developing rapidly. This book deals with the analysis of international trade, transboundary pollution and international negotiations on protecting the global environment. Focusing on climate change, international tra... view more info and the price of this book. |
Pricing and Price Regulation - book by Bos, D. DESCRIPTION: This clear, precisely written text presents an important branch of the modern, micro-economically based theory of industrial organization and of public finance, utilizing calculus only.Answers are provided to some pertinent economic questions, such as the pricing policies of vote-seekin... view more info and the price of this book. |
Financial Markets and Capital Income Taxation in a Global Economy - book by Roberti, P. DESCRIPTION: The book describes the developments and the evidence, the problems and the interrelationships among problems, the outlook, and the intricate balance between the national and the international dimensions of the policy issues faced by tax administrations in OECD countries in the field of ... view more info and the price of this book. |
Empirical Issues in Raising Equity Capital - book by Levis, M. DESCRIPTION: This volume covers issues of interest to corporate financiers, investment bankers, fund managers and investors involved in the process of raising long-term capital. The papers, which represent original contributions in their specific subject areas, cover a wide range of issues. These in... view more info and the price of this book. |
Agricultural Markets: Mechanisms, Failures and Regulations - book by Martimort, D. DESCRIPTION: This volume aims at covering the variety of issues lying at the intersection of the modern theory of Industrial Organization and of the more traditional Agricultural Economics. The book is divided into three main sections. Each of them includes contributions which are particularly relev... view more info and the price of this book. |
The Peace Dividend - book by Gleditsch, N.P.;Bjerkholt, O.;Cappelen, A.;Smith, R.P.;Dunne, J.P. DESCRIPTION: The papers collected in this volume demonstrate how different kinds of analytical approach can be used to anticipate the economic repercussions of systematic reduction of military spending. This volume will be of interest to economists; scholars in peace studies, international relations... view more info and the price of this book. |
Seasonality in Tourism - book by Baum, T.;Lundtorp, S. DESCRIPTION: Seasonal variation in demand is a reality for most tourism destinations. To challenge seasonality or to work within its constraints is a destination management issue that faces tourism planners throughout the world. It is an issue that is recognised particularly in regions of the extr... view more info and the price of this book. |
Advertising and Differentiated Products - book by Baye, M.R.;Nelson, J.P. DESCRIPTION: Volume 10 is entitled Advertising and Differentiated Products, and is part of the annual series "Advances in Applied Microeconomics". The series provides a forum in which researchers disseminate frontier research in applied microeconomics. The volume contains 11 chapters, which cover ... view more info and the price of this book. |
Advances in Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management, Volume 8 - book by Lee, Cheng-Few DESCRIPTION: This research annual publication intends to bring together investment analysis and portfolio theory and their implementation to portfolio management. It seeks theoretical and empirical research manuscripts with high quality in the area of investment and portfolio analysis. The content... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: TABLE OF CONTENTS: Volume 1A. Part 1: Agricultural Production. Production and supply (Y. Mundlak). Uncertainty, risk aversion, and risk management for agricultural producers (G. Moschini, D.A. Hennessy). Expectations, information and dynamics (M. Nerlove, D.A. Bessler). The agricultu... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: TABLE OF CONTENTS: Volume 1B. Part 2: Marketing, Distribution and Consumers. Agricultural commodity markets: spot, futures, options, forward contracts and derivatives (J. Williams). Storage and price stabilization (B. Wright). Food processing and distribution: an industrial organizat... view more info and the price of this book. |
Handbook of Agricultural Economics, Volume 1 : 2-Volume Set - book by Gardner, B.L.;Rausser, G.C. DESCRIPTION: TABLE OF CONTENTS: AUTHORS: Gardner, B.L.;Rausser, G.C. PAGES: 1400 pages PUBLISH DATE: 01/11/2001 ISBN Number: 0-444-82588-6... view more info and the price of this book. |
Competition Policies in Europe - book by Martin, S. DESCRIPTION: This volume contains chapters by different authors describing the development of competition policy in 10 European Union Member States, as well as the interaction of those policies with EU competition policy. The convergance of Member State competition policy to the EU approach is put i... view more info and the price of this book. |
Government for the Future - book by Andersson, A.E.;Harsman, B.;Quigley, J.M. DESCRIPTION: The aim of this volume is to encourage comparative explorations of the links between economic regionalism and government behaviour. At present, the relation between government and the economy is in a state of flux. In the old "developed" world, supranational organizations such as the EU... view more info and the price of this book. |
Structural Road Accident Models - book by Gaudry, M.;Lassarre, S. DESCRIPTION: DRAG (from un modele de la Demande Routiere, des Accidents et leur Gravite) is a complex computer model that simulates accident propensities under detailed conditions. The DRAG approach constitutes the largest road accident modelling effort ever undertaken. Gaudry is the creator and de... view more info and the price of this book. |
Competition and Convergence in Financial Markets - book by Black, S.W.;Moersch, M. DESCRIPTION: As Europe prepares for the introduction of a common currency, financial market players are moving to adapt to a new environment in which financial markets and institutions will be much more open to cross-border competition. Two different financial systems are responding to the challenge... view more info and the price of this book. |
Research in Public Administration, Volume 4 - book by White, J.D. DESCRIPTION: This volume clearly demonstrates the diversity of our field. Twenty-two scholars have contributed thirteen unique pieces of research on a wide variety of topics including public management innovation; organizational learning; revenue forecasting; finance; qualitative research and resear... view more info and the price of this book. |
Applying Kernel and Nonparametric Estimation to Economic Topics - book by Fomby, T.;Carter Hill, R. DESCRIPTION: Nonparametric estimation and inference is becoming increasingly popular in economics because of the advent of extensive computing power and the development of efficient computer algorithms. Papers in this volume present techniques that permit inference that is robust to deviations from... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: More than 70% of the planet Earth is covered by oceans where property rights are poorly defined and enforced. Since ocean resources are fully exploited (because of new technologies and population growth), convential regulatory methods (command and control) have failed to prevent pervas... view more info and the price of this book. |
Measuring Market Power - book by Slottje, D.J. DESCRIPTION: This is the first book completely dedicated to the measurement and definition of market power across a broad array of industries. It will provide economists and lawyers an insight into how anti-trust economists actually go about measuring market power in a given industry. A useful boo... view more info and the price of this book. |
Elites, Minorities and Economic Growth - book by Brezis, E.S.;Temin, P. DESCRIPTION: This book examines the relationship between elites, minorities, and economic growth. The novelty of the book lies in its focus on the interaction between social and economic changes during economic growth. This is an undeveloped subject because it crosses disciplinary lines. The first p... view more info and the price of this book. |
Project Finance in Asia - book by Lang, L.H.P. DESCRIPTION: In this book, the mysteries of the new 'Asian definition of project finance' have been unravelled, the richness and complexities of the constantly-evolving efforts have been explored, and contrasts the Asian adapted definition with the basic model of the West.While the book reviews the ... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: TABLE OF CONTENTS: Abbreviated Contents: Volume A: Framework, Households and Firms. Introduction to the Series. Preface. Introduction. Chapter 1. The General Framework. Part 1. Agents, Assets, Operations. Division into periods. Overall consistency. Part 2. Prices, Interest and Profit... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: TABLE OF CONTENTS: Abbreviated Contents: Volume B: Economic Growth and Short-Term Equilibrium. Introduction to the Series. Preface. Introduction. Chapter 5. Economic Growth: Normative Theory. Part 1. Modelling Growth. Discounting. Part 2. Constant Investment Rates. Tendency to a stea... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: TABLE OF CONTENTS: Abbreviated Contents: Volume C: Inflation, Employment and Business Fluctuations. Introduction to the Series. Preface. Introduction. Chapter 8. The Dynamics of Inflation and Employment. Part 1. Inflation as a Process. Costs, prices and wages: the spiral. Rational ex... view more info and the price of this book. |
The Economics of Complex Spatial Systems - book by Nijkamp, P.;Reggiani, A. DESCRIPTION: This book argues that complexity theory offers new departures for (spatial-) economic modelling. It offers a broad overview of recent advances in non-linear dynamics (catastrophe theory, chaos theory, evolutionary theory and so forth) and illustrates the relevance of this new paradigm o... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: This volume brings together a collection of research papers on financial sector reform and privatization in the transition economies of Eastern Europe and related issues in other transforming economies.It represents a selection of invited papers and best papers presented at various conf... view more info and the price of this book. |
Handbook of Development Economics Volume 1 - book by Chenery, H.;Srinivasan, T.N. DESCRIPTION: For this Handbook authors known to have different views regarding the nature of development economics have been selected. The Handbook is organised around the implications of different sets of assumptions and their associated research programs. It is divided into three volumes, each wit... view more info and the price of this book. |
Handbook of Development Economics Volume 3B - book by Behrman, J.;Srinivasan, T.N. DESCRIPTION: This third volume of the Handbook of Development Economics employs rigorous theoretical and empirical frameworks. It focuses on policy and includes material from unpublished and not generally available sources. In particular, it covers analytical and policy issues arising from the... view more info and the price of this book. |
Handbook of Development Economics Volumes 3A & 3B - book by Behrman, J.;Srinivasan, T.N. DESCRIPTION: This third volume of the Handbook of Development Economics employs rigorous theoretical and empirical frameworks. It focuses on policy and includes material from unpublished and not generally available sources. In particular, it covers analytical and policy issues arising from the ... view more info and the price of this book. |
Handbook of Monetary Economics Volume 1 - book by Friedman, B.M.;Hahn, F.H. DESCRIPTION: Due to the fundamental two-way interaction between the theoretical and the empirical aspects of monetary economics, together with the relationship of both to matters of public policy, any organization of material comprehensively spanning the subject is bound to be arbitrary. The 23 surv... view more info and the price of this book. |
Handbook of Monetary Economics Volume 2 - book by Friedman, B.M.;Hahn, F.H. DESCRIPTION: Due to the fundamental two-way interaction between the theoretical and the empirical aspects of monetary economics, together with the relationship of both to matters of public policy, any organization of material comprehensively spanning the subject is bound to be arbitrary. The 23 surv... view more info and the price of this book. |
Handbook of Natural Resource and Energy Economics Volume 1 - book by Kneese, A.V.;Sweeney, J.L. DESCRIPTION: The three volumes comprising the Handbook of Natural Resource and Energy Economics examine the current theory, and sample current application methods for natural resource and energy economics. Volumes 1 & 2 deal with the economics of environmental and renewable resources, and are di... view more info and the price of this book. |
Handbook of Natural Resource and Energy Economics Volume 2 - book by Kneese, A.V.;Sweeney, J.L. DESCRIPTION: The three volumes comprising the Handbook of Natural Resource and Energy Economics examine the current theory, and sample current application methods for natural resource and energy economics. Volumes 1 & 2 deal with the economics of environmental and renewable resources, and are di... view more info and the price of this book. |
Handbook of Natural Resource and Energy Economics Volume 3 - book by Kneese, A.V.;Sweeney, J.L. DESCRIPTION: The Handbook of Natural Resource and Energy Economics examines the current theory, and samples current application methods for natural resource and energy economics. This third volume of the Handbook deals primarily with non-renewable resources. It analyzes the economics of energy and m... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: The collection of chapters in the Handbook of Population and Family Economics and their organization reflect the most recent developments in economics pertaining to population issues and the family. The rationale, contents, and organization of the Handbook evolve from three premises. Fi... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: The collection of chapters in the Handbook of Population and Family Economics and their organization reflect the most recent developments in economics pertaining to population issues and the family. The rationale, contents, and organization of the Handbook evolve from three premises. Fi... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: The collection of chapters in the Handbook of Population and Family Economics and their organization reflect the most recent developments in economics pertaining to population issues and the family. The rationale, contents, and organization of the Handbook evolve from three premises. Fi... view more info and the price of this book. |
Banking in North America - book by Haar, J.;Dandapani, K. DESCRIPTION: The tremendous growth and expansion of global financial services have produced significant changes in the banking sector worldwide. North America, especially, has experienced far reaching changes due to both global and regional developments. NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Agreemen... view more info and the price of this book. |
The Role of the Academic Economist in Litigation Support - book by Slottje, D.J. DESCRIPTION: This book presents a series of chapters by several leading economists on how to perform economic analysis in support of litigation matters. For many years, academic economists consulted in litigation matters, but most did not discuss it as it was regarded as not 'pure economic research'... view more info and the price of this book. |
Emissions Permit Experiments - book by Isaac, R.M.;Holt, C. DESCRIPTION: This special volume is devoted to a single topic. In the past several years, many governments, including the United States and Canada, launched a major shift to what are sometimes called "incentive based" pollution control procedures. Because these proposed systems inherently required i... view more info and the price of this book. |
Advances in Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management, Volume 5 - book by Lee, Cheng-Few DESCRIPTION: TABLE OF CONTENTS: An option-based approach to portfolio performance evaluation (S. Smith, S.M. Kokosha). A chartist approach to stock exchange series (CASES) decomposition: theoretical justifications and empirical analysis (L. Becchetti, C. Becchetti). Put-call-forward exchange pari... view more info and the price of this book. |
Advances in Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management, Volume 6 - book by Lee, Cheng-Few DESCRIPTION: TABLE OF CONTENTS: List of contributors. Insider trading and variable information life (S.F. Bellezza). The long-run relationship between spot and futures prices of the S&P 500 index: evidence from cointegration tests (S. Rahman, A.F. Darrat). An empirical examination of the capi... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: This collection of 22 commissioned essays from scholars across numerous fields responded to the question: What are the most fundamental things you can say concerning the interrelations between the institutions of government and property? Contributing authors were asked to address this q... view more info and the price of this book. |
Training Exercises for Improving Sensemaking Skills - With Solutions - book by Woodside, A.G. DESCRIPTION: This book deals with the process of improving our sensemaking capabilities into how to: scan environments actively to gather data that is relevant to pressing issues; interpret usefully what we see — including recognizing and framing problems/opportunities and skills in transformi... view more info and the price of this book. |
Theoretical Foundations in Marketing Ethics - book by Robin, D.;Vitell, S.J. DESCRIPTION: TABLE OF CONTENTS: List of contributors. Theoretical foundations in marketing ethics: a look back (S.J. Vitell). Theoretical foundations in marketing ethics: a look ahead (D.P. Robin). The entitlement model: a morally bancrupt baseline for justification of marketing practices (S. Bak... view more info and the price of this book. |
Groups in Context - book by Wageman, R. DESCRIPTION: This book comprises the work of scholars who gathered in May, 1998 at a conference held at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business Administration. The conference was part of an ongoing series presenting cutting-edge research on teams. Presented first, are those articles that... view more info and the price of this book. |
Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management, Volume 19 - book by Ferris, G.R. DESCRIPTION: This series, publishes monograph length conceptual papers designed to promote theory and research on important substantive and methodological topics in the field of human resources management. TABLE OF CONTENTS: Overview (G.R. Ferris). Practical intelligence: implications for human re... view more info and the price of this book. |
Class, Economic Theory and State Practice - book by Zarembka, P. DESCRIPTION: TABLE OF CONTENTS: Part I. Class Relations, Economic Theory and State Practice. Class struggle and economics: the case of Keynesianism (M. De Angelis). State projects and the balance of class forces: an analysis of bank deregulation (D. Silfen Glasberg, D. Skidmore). Part II. Reagan... view more info and the price of this book. |
Research on Economic Inequality, Volume 8 - book by Slottje, D.J. DESCRIPTION: TABLE OF CONTENTS: Is the size distribution of income stationary? (P. Rothman). More than a dozen alternative ways of spelling Gini (Shlomo Yitzhaki). Ranking poverty gap distributions: further TIPs for poverty analysis (S.P. Jenkins, P.J. Lambert). "Three "I"s of Poverty" curves and... view more info and the price of this book. |
Inequality and Taxation - book by Zandvakili, S. DESCRIPTION: TABLE OF CONTENTS: Horizontal inequality and reranking (P.J. Lambert, X. Ramos). Measuring progressivity and inequality (J.-Y. Duclos). Tax elasticity, income redistribution and the measurement of tax progresssivity (N. Podder). Poverty and inequlaity comparisons of alternative tax s... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: An Introduction to the Law and Economics of Environmental Policy emphasises the importance of institutional design in addressing social problems. Three important issues concerning institutional design are:• policies• instruments• enforcement This volume surveys each of t... view more info and the price of this book. |
Fuels for the Future - book by Moroney, J.R. DESCRIPTION: The papers in this volume were presented at the Energy and Resource Workshop Series at Texas A&M University. Topics presented at the workshops were forums for the discussion of research concerning the economics of energy and other natural resources. Chapter topics include: new compe... view more info and the price of this book. |
Research in Public Administration, Volume 5 - book by Perry, J.L. DESCRIPTION: The papers in this volume focus on the broad issues of public sector reform. They address issue-oriented and comparative research such as: analysis of civil service systems at the theoretical level; reforming the wing of national level governmetns; the wave of public sector reform that ... view more info and the price of this book. |
Product Development Teams - book by Beyerlein, M.M.;Johnson, D.A.;Beyerlein, S.T. DESCRIPTION: Innovative breakthroughs, or even incremental improvements in products, are increasingly viewed as the key to business success. This work contains useful ideas for both practice and theory building from some of the world's leading thinkers on product development teams (PDT's). Chapters ... view more info and the price of this book. |
International Marketing and Purchasing - book by Ghauri, P.N. DESCRIPTION: The collection of papers presented in this volume are the results of research undertaken by a group of scholars examining the field of international marketing and purchasing (IMP). This group of researchers has been conducting IMP studies over the past two decades in a multi-country set... view more info and the price of this book. |
Safety in Medicine - book by De Mol, B.;Vincent, C. DESCRIPTION: Studies in the US suggest that about 4% of hospital patients are unintentionally harmed by treatment. These many thousands of "accidents" have received little research attention. This book assumes that medicine may benefit and learn from approaches to safety in other areas and will be a... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: Panel Data and Structural Labour Market Models is the latest volume in a series of four, reporting on the original work of an international group of scholars with research interests in the performance of the labour markets that condition the dynamic labour market experiences of individu... view more info and the price of this book. |
The United States and GATT - book by Beane, D.G. DESCRIPTION: This book examines the nature of the evolutionary relationship that developed between the United States and the GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) system, and considers the effects of this relationship on their individual evolution and development. These effects were felt, wi... view more info and the price of this book. |
The New World Order - book by Fatemi, K. DESCRIPTION: As the new millennium dawns, a new world order is taking shape. The political environment in which the global economy has to function is finally recovering from the bewilderment which followed the collapse of the bipolar system which had, in turn, come into being after World War Two. Th... view more info and the price of this book. |
Getting Better at Sensemaking - book by Woodside, A.G. DESCRIPTION: Volume 9 is a feast. The 16 contributions fill the mind with knowledge, skills, and insights useful for improving the executive's ability to do what needs to be done: scan environments better to find the weak signals on breakthrough technologies; shifts in customers' attitudes and behav... view more info and the price of this book. |
Developments in Australasian Marketing - book by McNaughton, R.B. DESCRIPTION: Developments in Australasian Marketing presents excellent examples of the exciting range of marketing research that is being carried out by marketing academics in the Australasian region. The volume contains eighteen chapters selected from presentations at the inaugural Australia/New Ze... view more info and the price of this book. |
Tourism Demand Modelling and Forecasting - book by Haiyan Song;Witt, S.F. DESCRIPTION: The phenomenal growth of both the world-wide tourism industry and academic interest in tourism over the last thirty years has generated great interest in tourism demand modelling and forecasting from both sectors. However, the tendency for researchers and practitioners engaged in quanti... view more info and the price of this book. |
Tourism Management - book by Ryan, C.;Page, S. DESCRIPTION: This book is an edited selection of key research papers published in the field of tourism management during the past ten years. It seeks to take stock of some of the seminal developments in the literature and to examine the evolution of thinking and the development of the subject area, ... view more info and the price of this book. |
Advances in Accounting Information Systems, Volume 6 - book by Sutton, S.G. DESCRIPTION: TABLE OF CONTENTS: List of contributors. Preface. Information Systems Practice and Theory. The impact of cross-functional team participation on voluntary use of an accounting information retrieval system (J.E. Hunton, D. Gibson). A critique of "The impact of cross-functional team par... view more info and the price of this book. |
Advances in Accounting Information Systems, Volume 5 - book by Sutton, S.G. DESCRIPTION: TABLE OF CONTENTS: Preface. Information Systems Practice and Theory. Information technology in accounting: assessing the impact on accountants and organizations (J.E. Hunton, L. Flowers). Does it pay off? Evidence from a multidimensional analysis (S. Bhattacharya et al.). Discussion ... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: The effects and impact of employee participation and employee ownership continue to be themes of enduring interest to social scientists from a range of disciplines. The analysis presented in this volume are representative of the best economics research being carried out in the study of ... view more info and the price of this book. |
Energy Supply and Demand - book by Moroney, J.R. DESCRIPTION: TABLE OF CONTENTS: Introduction (J.R. Moroney). Lifestyles of the energy rich: household energy conservation in the United States and consertation policy (D.A. Norman). Evidence of perfectly reversible price response in U.S. gasoline demand (E. Blackburne). U.S. highway fuel demand (... view more info and the price of this book. |
Team Leadership - book by Beyerlein, M.M.;Johnson, D.A.;Beyerlein, S.T. DESCRIPTION: This volume of the annual series on work teams focuses on leadership. A number of experts in academia and in business agree that leadership is the key to effective work teams. However, they do not necessarily agree on what is meant by "leadership", how leadership should be enacted, or ... view more info and the price of this book. |
The Tourist-Historic City - book by Ashworth, G.J.;Tunbridge, J.E. DESCRIPTION: The original publication of The Tourist-Historic City in 1990 reflected the growing importance of heritage to cities, and cities to the creation and marketing of heritage products, not least within tourism. In response to the continuing rapid growth of interest in this field, the concep... view more info and the price of this book. |
Air Pollution and Regional Economic Performance: A Case Study - book by Hall, Jane V. DESCRIPTION: Environmental regulation requires that substantial productive resources be diverted to efforts to improve environmental quality. Economic theory says that, all else being equal, regulation will consequently cause costs to rise with resulting losses in competitive advantage and a general... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: This volume will include scenarios of geophysical and economic impacts from global warming beyond a doubling of greenhouse gases. Analyses will examine geophysical, ecological, and economic impacts, physical and institutional lags, alternative scenarios with and without policy intervent... view more info and the price of this book. |
Health Policy Reform in the States - book by Cantor, J.C. DESCRIPTION: TABLE OF CONTENTS: Preface. Foreword. Cost analyses of the Arizona health care cost containment system: lessons from an eleven-year evaluation (C.W. Wrighton, N. McCall). Estimating the short-run impacts of an employer insurance mandate on small businesses (R.J. Hanley, J.J. McCoy). ... view more info and the price of this book. |
Public Provision and Performance - book by Blank, J.L.T. DESCRIPTION: Governments are searching for possibilities to improve efficiency and reduce cost of the public sector services. Privatising, deregulation, changing property rights have become popular policy items in recent politics. Although there has been much progress in methodological issues and th... view more info and the price of this book. |
Bank Crises: Causes, Analysis and Prevention - book by Kaufman, G.G. DESCRIPTION: The papers in this volume were presented at three invited sessions at the annual meeting of the Western Economic Association in Lake Tahoe, Nevada on June 30 and July 1, 1998. The comments of the speaker at each of these sessions are also included. The papers focus on the widespread ba... view more info and the price of this book. |
Research in Law and Economics, Volume 18 - book by Zerbe, R.O. DESCRIPTION: TABLE OF CONTENTS: The relative efficiency of common vs. civil law: transactions costs and vertical integration (J.H. Brown). Economic analysis and distributive justice (D. Buress, W. Rich). Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil? The effects of guideline sentencing on the behavior... view more info and the price of this book. |
Property Rights, Economics and the Environment - book by Kaplowitz, M.D. DESCRIPTION: TABLE OF CONTENTS: List of contributors. The intersection of law, economics, and environmental policy (M.D. Kaplowitz). Legal Economic Perspectives. Property rights and economics for helping address environmental problems (A. Randall). Regulatory takings and land use conflicts (D.W. ... view more info and the price of this book. |
Advances in Taxation, Volume 10 - book by Porcano, T.M. DESCRIPTION: Advances in Taxation publishes articles dealing with all aspects of taxation. Articles can address tax policy issues at the federal, state, local, or international level. The series primarily publishes empirical studies that address compliance, computer usage, education, legal, planning... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: This interdisciplinary series focuses on new, fresh ideas in services marketing and management and is committed to encouraging scholars new to the area of services to pursue innovative and interdisciplinary services-related research. Also encouraged is work that crosses the boundaries b... view more info and the price of this book. |
Advances in Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management, Volume 7 - book by Lee, Cheng-Few DESCRIPTION: TABLE OF CONTENTS: Evaluating the risk of portfolios with options (E.A. Sheedy, R.G. Trevor). Co-movement patter of daily stock returns: an analysis of dow and January effects (G.Y.N. Tang). Portfolio allocation and the length of the investment horizon (R.D. van Eaton). Markowitz mod... view more info and the price of this book. |
Microsimulation in Government Policy and Forecasting - book by Gupta, A.;Kapur, V. DESCRIPTION: This volume presents recent developments in microsimulation and public policy. Selected papers presented at an international conference on microsimulation, held in Maine in 1997 and recent thinking in the field of microsimulation as reflected in special contributions by some of the lead... view more info and the price of this book. |
Value, Capitalist Dynamics, and Money - book by Zarembka, P. DESCRIPTION: This volume begins with an introduction to Marx's theory of capitalism in his own words, with his examples modernized from use of shillings and pence as subdivisions of the Pound. Well-known 1901 work on the theory of crises in capitalism by Michael Tugan-Baranowsky is translated into ... view more info and the price of this book. |
Research in Law and Economics, Volume 19 - book by Zerbe, R.O.;Kovacic, W. DESCRIPTION: Research in Law and Economics is a highly respected source of proactive, original perspectives on law and economics. For the researcher, this latest volume offers a diverse set of papers, each one a constructive contribution. The papers address: how the Supreme Court can clarify and rat... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: This volume offers an up-to-date treatment of dynamic general equilibrium modeling. The book, written by some of the most experienced researchers in the field, contains a rich array of policy settings. The issues considered include trends in the policy use of dynamic general equilibrium... view more info and the price of this book. |
Elsevier's Dictionary of Advertising - book by Manoilova, S.G.;Konstantinova, D.H. DESCRIPTION: The dynamic business of advertising is quite fascinating as it encompasses an eclectic diversity of fields and activities. Spanning from matters of budgeting, discounts and commissions to creativity, the art of words and images, it communicates to consumers a viable, marketable message.... view more info and the price of this book. |
Research in Experimental Economics, Volume 8 - book by Isaac, R.M. DESCRIPTION: Volume 8 of Research in Experimental Economics provides a forum for papers incorporating laboratory experimental economics. These specifically include interdisciplinary papers, papers that report experimental design innovations, and papers that report detailed data. The paper by Isaac, ... view more info and the price of this book. |
Explaining Unemployment - book by Draper, D.A.G DESCRIPTION: Europe's notoriously high level of unemployment is one of the big puzzles of empirical macroeconomics. In recent years the unemployment rate has fallen in The Netherlands, but the overall level in OECD Europe remains high. An investigation into why Dutch economic policy has been relativ... view more info and the price of this book. |
Law and Economics in Civil Law Countries - book by Deffains, B.;Kirat, T. DESCRIPTION: The aim of the book is to highlight the law and economics issues confronting civil law countries. The following questions are addressed in this volume: to what extent have the existing codes in civil law countries been designed to incorporate economic considerations? Can the modificat... view more info and the price of this book. |
Trade and Investment in a Globalising World - book by Narula, R. DESCRIPTION: This volume of collected essays by eminent scholars in the fields of International Trade and Investment have been written and edited in honour of H. Peter Gray. Over a career in economics spanning almost 40 years, Peter Gray has been a prolific writer. He has made significant contributi... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: TABLE OF CONTENTS: Foreword. Section 1: The Reagan Administration. President Reagan and his key White House staff (first term). Reagan's Departments of State, Treasury, and Defense (first term). Reagan's White House staff and key Inner Cabinet (second term). Reagan's Department of Ju... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: TABLE OF CONTENTS: Foreword. The Reagan/Bush Supreme Court - a bench happily filled? Reaganomics-tax reform or "voodoo" economics? The Reaganite military buildup - an American folly? The "Red Specter" in the Caribbean-Grenada and the Iran-Contra Affair. AUTHORS: Burch, P.H. |
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DESCRIPTION: TABLE OF CONTENTS: AUTHORS: Burch, P.H. PAGES: 748 pages PUBLISH DATE: 01/01/1997 ISBN Number: 0-7623-0238-0... view more info and the price of this book. |
Economic Theory of Capitalism and Its Crises - book by Zarembka, P. DESCRIPTION: This work provides articles advancing the theoretical understanding of modern capitalism, including comparing post-Keynesian and Marxian conceptions of the endogenity of money, periodizing stages of capitalism, and understanding what "growth" means precisely beyond its common representa... view more info and the price of this book. |
Interconnected Worlds: Tourism in Southeast Asia - book by Teo, P.;Chang, T.C.;Ho, K.C. DESCRIPTION: One of the most significant changes in tourism in recent years has been the concept of interconnections, which is evident at various levels of tourism planning. Strategic alliances between rival companies, vertical integration between and across firms, collaboration between public and p... view more info and the price of this book. |
The Economics of Gender and Mental Illness - book by Marcotte, D.E.;Wilcox-Gok, V. DESCRIPTION: While gender has so often been found to be an important determinant of prevalence and outcomes of mental illness, economists have rarely focused on gender differences as a central element of their analyses. In this volume, we direct the focus of research in the economics of mental healt... view more info and the price of this book. |
Inequality, Welfare and Income Distribution: Experimental Approaches - book by Cowell, F. DESCRIPTION: The emerging literature on experimental methods in connection with economic inequality has shed fresh light on how to think about inequality, how important issues of equality are in comparison with other economic objectives and how individuals incorporate criteria of equality and fairne... view more info and the price of this book. |
Inequality, Welfare and Poverty: Theory and Measurement - book by Bishop, J.A.;Amiel, Y. DESCRIPTION: Research on Economic Inequality, Volume 9, Inequality, Welfare and Poverty: Theory and Measurement continues the series of original, timely and useful papers in applied welfare analysis. This volume contains fifteen papers on inequality theory, economic mobility, issues in empirical es... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: Supply Chain Management (SCM) has been a very visible and influential research topic in the field of operations research (OR) over the course of the last decade of the 20th century. The problems and experiences that emerged from business practices have stimulated many researchers to con... view more info and the price of this book. |
Field Experiments in Economics, 10 - book by Carpenter, J.;Harrison, G.W.;List, J.A. DESCRIPTION: Experimental economists are leaving the reservation. They are recruiting subjects in the field rather than in the classroom, using field goods rather than induced valuations, and using field context rather than abstract terminology in instructions. This volume examines the methodology o... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: This book tackles some of the major issues facing practitioners and researchers in the field of Management of |