International financial history in the twentieth century

system and anarchy

International Financial History in the Twentieth Century examines the history of the international financial system in terms of the current debate about globalization and its limits. In the nineteenth century, international markets existed without international institutions. A response to the problems of capital flows came ...

Business history around the world

This book offers the first in-depth international survey of current research and debates in business history. Over the last two decades enormous advances have been made on the history of business enterprise and business systems. Historians are documenting and analyzing the evolution of a wide ...

Decision making using game theory

an introduction for managers

Game theory is a key element in most decision making processes involving two or more people or organisations. This book explains how game theory can predict the outcome of complex decision making processes, and how it can help you to improve your own negotiation and ...

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 ...

Appointing central bankers

the politics of monetary policy in the United States and the European Union

Focusing on how the President and the Senate influence monetary policy by appointing Federal Reserve Board members, this book answers three questions about the appointment process and its effects. First, do politicians influence monetary policy via Federal Reserve appointments? Second, who influences the process--only the ...

Semiparametric regression

Semiparametric regression is concerned with the flexible incorporation of non-linear functional relationships in regression analyses. Any application area that benefits from regression analysis can also benefit from semiparametric regression. Assuming only a basic familiarity with ordinary parametric regression, this user-friendly book explains the techniques and ...

Data analysis and graphics using R

an example-based approach

Modern statistical software systems provide sophisticated tools for researchers who need to manipulate and display their data. Using such systems requires training both in the software itself and in the statistical methods that it relies on. Concentrating on the freely available R system, this book ...

Semiparametric regression for the applied econometrician

This book provides an accessible collection of techniques for analyzing nonparametric and semiparametric regression models. Worked examples include estimation of Engel curves and equivalence scales, scale economies, semiparametric Cobb-Douglas, translog and CES cost functions, household gasoline consumption, hedonic housing prices, option prices and state price ...

The monetary theory of production

In mainstream economic theory money functions as an instrument for the circulation of commodities or for keeping a stock of liquid wealth. In neither case is it considered fundamental to the production of goods or the distribution of income. Augusto Graziani challenges traditional theories of ...

Economics and the theory of games

The experience of crusading

The IMF and economic development

Why do governments turn to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and with what effects? This book argues that governments enter IMF programs for economic and political reasons, and finds that the effects are negative on economic growth and income distribution. By bringing in the IMF ...

Legislative deferreals

statutory ambiguity, judicial power, and american democracy

Benefit-cost analysis

financial and economic appraisal using spreadsheets

Benefit-Cost Analysis offers the perfect introduction to benefit#cost analysis. The book closely integrates the theory and practice of benefit#cost analysis using a spreadsheet framework. The spreadsheet model is constructed in a truly original way which contributes to transparency, provides a check on the ...

Reading humanitarian intervention

Human Rights and the use of force in International Law

States, Nations, and Borders

The Ethics of Making Boundaries.

This volume examines comparatively the views and principles of seven prominent ethical traditions on one of the most pressing issues of modern politics - the making and unmaking of state and national boundaries. The traditions represented are Judaism, Christianity, Islam, natural law, Confucianism, liberalism and international ...

Reaching the interactive customer

integrated services for the digital world

Through either direct exposure or media coverage of the online world, consumers have built certain expectations around interactivity. Activities like email, chat, and web browsing reinforce popular understanding how people use electronic devices to 'talk', 'find' and 'see' what's happening in the world around ...

Finance, intermediaries, and economic developement

This volume includes ten essays dealing with financial and other forms of economic intermediation in Europe, Canada, and the United States since the seventeenth century. Each relates the development of institutions to economic change and describes their evolution over time, as well as discussing several ...

Dimensions of private law

Categories and conceptos in Anglo-american Legal Reasoning.

Anglo-American private law (the law governing mutual rights and obligations of individuals) has been a far more complex phenomenon than is usually recognized. Attempts to reduce it to a single explanatory principIe, or to a precisely classified or categorized mar, scheme, or diagram, are likely ...

The legal protection of databases