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Advances in Pacific Basin Business, Economics, and Finance, Volume 4 - book by Lee, Cheng-Few

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TABLE OF CONTENTS: List of contributors. Switching arch models of stock market volatility in Taiwan (S-W. Chen, J-L. Lin). The determinants of capital structure for small and medium enterprises in Taiwan (H-C. Kuo, L-H. Wang and S-S. Wu). On the predictive power of the Black-Scholes ... view more info and the price of this book.

Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics Volume 1 - book by Nijkamp, P.

DESCRIPTION: This first volume of the Handbook serves as a definitive reference source and teaching supplement for the field of regional economics, and for related fields such as geography, transportation economics, regional science and physical planning. It provides an advanced state-of-the-art sur... view more info and the price of this book.

Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics Volume 2 - book by Mills, E.S.

DESCRIPTION: This second volume of the Handbook presents professional surveys of all the important topics in urban economics. The first section contains 6 surveys on locational analysis, the second, 5 surveys of specific urban markets, and the third part presents 5 surveys of government policy issue... view more info and the price of this book.

Economics of Crime - book by Aasness, J.;Eide, E.;Skjerpen, T.

DESCRIPTION: In this volume the rational choice model is extended to a framework of norm-guided rational behaviour into which various theories of crime are incorporated. Based on this framework, a broad range of regression analyses of crime in various parts of the world is reviewed. Many general, me... view more info and the price of this book.

The Post Financial Crisis Challenges for Asian Industrialization - book by Hooley, R.;Yoo, J.H

DESCRIPTION: This volume features an in-depth analysis of the Asian financial crisis and its impacts on the economies of the region by thirty-five scholars and professionals working in the area. The volume contains a detailed analysis of the root causes of the crisis. Some of the authors pursue th... view more info and the price of this book.

Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics Volume 3 - book by Cheshire, P.C.;Mills, E.S.

DESCRIPTION: This volume is a follow-up to the earlier Urban Economics, Volume 2 of Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, edited by Edwin Mills. The earlier volume, published in 1987, focussed on urban economic theory. This new handbook, in contrast, focuses on applied urban research. The differ... view more info and the price of this book.

Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare Volume 1 - book by Arrow, K.J.;Sen, A.K.;Suzumura, K.

DESCRIPTION: The Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare presents, in two volumes, essays on past and on-going work in social choice theory and welfare economics. The first volume consists of four parts. In Part 1 (Arrovian Impossibility Theorems), various aspects of Arrovian general impossibility t... view more info and the price of this book.

New Economic Developments and their Impact on Arab Economies - book by Al-Kawaz, A.

DESCRIPTION: This book contains papers submitted to the International Conference on New Economic Developments and Their Impact on Arab Economies, held in Tunisia, 3-5 June 1998. The papers presented cover four main topics: Globalization and regionalization, water crises, technological changes and ec... view more info and the price of this book.

The Economics of Middle East Peace: A Reassessment - book by Roy, S.

DESCRIPTION: This special issue, sponsored by the Middle East Economic Association is the first thematic volume offered in this series. Devoted to the thorny topic of the economic dimensions of peace in the Middle East, it is hoped that this book will clarify some of the main issues confronting diff... view more info and the price of this book.

Colombia: An Opening Economy? - book by Callahan, C.M.;Gunter, F.R.

DESCRIPTION: Has the liberalization of the Colombian economy gone too far or not far enough? This second volume of studies on the Colombian economy seeks to shed some light on this difficult question. A variety of issues related to the economic opening or liberalization (commonly referred to as aper... view more info and the price of this book.

The Millennial City: Classic Readings on U.S. Urban Policy - book by Norton, R.D.

DESCRIPTION: How have America's largest cities managed to adapt to the economic and demographic changes of the late Twentieth Century? To shed light on the transition, this latest volume presents standout papers spanning the life of Research in Urban Economics. The work includes excerpts from a 1980... view more info and the price of this book.

Research in Economic Anthropology, Volume 20 - book by Isaac, B.L.;

DESCRIPTION: This volume contains 11 papers covering: 1) Women as Artisans from Colombia and the Phillippines; 2) Money and Witchcraft from Niger and Tanzania; 3) Resistance to Economic Development for Canada, Mexico and the US; 4) Changing Rural Economies from Guatemala and Kenya; and 5) Ethnoarcha... view more info and the price of this book.

Regional Resilence and Defense-Conversion in the United States - book by Norton, R.D.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS: From the Cold-War Kondratieff to the information age: Editor's Introduction (R.D. Norton). Part I. Firms. The U.S. experience in global perspective, Bonn International Center for Conversion. Commercialization of defense technology: the key success factors (A.J. Mar... view more info and the price of this book.

Restructuring Asian Economies for the New Millennium : Volume 9A - book by Behrman, J.;Dutta, M.;Husted, S.L.;Sumalee, P.;Suthiphand, C.;Wiboonchutikula, P.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS: Forward (T. Kiranandana). Preface (M. Dutta). Section One. Optimal monetary and exchange policy under global financial crisis (M.R.C.M. Sonakul). A macroeconomic core of open economies in Asia for progressive industrialization in the new millennium (M. Dutta). The ... view more info and the price of this book.

Restructuring Asian Economies for the New Millennium : Volume 9B - book by Behrman, J.;Dutta, M.;Husted, S.L.;Sumalee, P.;Suthiphand, C.;Wiboonchutikula, P.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS: Section Four. Microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic crisis: risk analysis of Asian non financial firms with comparisons to Latin America (S. Reynolds, S. Ratanakomut and J.P. Gander). A prediction of firms' financial distress using macro and micro variables: a... view more info and the price of this book.

Restructuring Asian Economies for the New Millennium : Volumes 9A & 9B - book by Behrman, J.;Dutta, M.;Husted, S.L.;Sumalee, P.;Suthiphand, C.;Wiboonchutikula, P.

DESCRIPTION: The Asian economic crisis and future development is a popular subject among academics and policy-makers worldwide. Several countries in Asia came to face severe economic recession in the wake of their financial and foreign exchange crisis which began in 1997. The recession was deep and ... view more info and the price of this book.

Research in Asian Economic Studies, Volume 8 - book by Hooley, R.;Abidin, M.Z;Ariff, M.;Dutta, M.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS: I. Introduction. The new industrial revolution in Asian economies (M. Abidin, R. Hooley). II. Macroeconomic Policy and productivity Performance. Reflections on economic growth in Asia and the Pacific (A. Harberger). The new industrial revolution in Asian economies:... view more info and the price of this book.

Research in Middle East Economics, Volume 2 - book by Pfeifer, K.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS: Preface. Introduction (K. Pfeifer). Part I. Human Resources. Poverty and inequality in Egypt (P.W. Cardiff). The employment crisis in Egypt: current trends and future prospects (R. Assaad). Factors affecting wage rates among bakery workers in the city of Isfahan, I... view more info and the price of this book.

International Urban Planning Settings: Lessons of Success - book by Williams, J.F.;Stimson, R.J.

DESCRIPTION: A group of academics and practitioners in urban planning and development present an array of essays, primarily focused on Pacific Rim cities, that analyze successful policies and programs in urban development and explain why they have worked. These essays identify a number of key themes... view more info and the price of this book.

The Economics of Women and Work in the Middle East and North Africa - book by Cinar, M.

DESCRIPTION: The Economics of Women and Work in the Middle East and North Africa brings together a series of excellent articles on a very important, but under-researched issue. The topics covered in this volume range from cross-country comparisons of women's economic situation, with an emphasis on e... view more info and the price of this book.

Social Dimensions in the Economic Process - book by Dannhaeuser, N.;Werner, C.

DESCRIPTION: The general theme of Social Dimensions in the Economic Process is an old one in economic anthropology. On the abstract end it involves, first, the degree of social content of individual transactions and, second, how economic processes relate to social structure. More specifically, the t... view more info and the price of this book.