Monetary history, exchange rates and financial markets

essays in honour of Charles Goodhart.Volume 2

"Monetary History, Exchange Rates and Financial Markets" is a collection of original papers in honour of Charles Goodhart's outstanding contribution to monetary economics and policy. Its contributors - eminent international academics, central bankers and financial market regulators - provide an insight into an extensive set of ...

The international handbook on financial reform

Under growing pressure from within and outside their economies, countries around the world have embarked upon wide-ranging programmes of financial reform. This handbook provides country studies of contemporary developments in financial reform in a selection of both developed and developing countries from Western Europe, North ...

Traditional telecommunications networks

This reference work provides a thorough and up-to-date survey and analysis of recent developments in the economics of telecommunications. The handbooks serve both as a source of reference and technical supplement for the field of telecommunications economics. Volume I reviews the traditional literature to bring ...

An encyclopedia of macroeconomics

This is an authoritative reference source on macroeconomics, which embraces definitions of terms and concepts, conflicting ideological approaches and the contributions of major thinkers. It contains over 300 short entries and more than 100 specially commissioned main entries

Competition and regulation in utility markets

This volume is part of an annual series, published in association with the Institute of Economic Affairs and the London Business School, which provides an up-to-date review of the state of utility regulation in Britain, with some relevant overseas comparisons. The book, edited and with ...

International handbook on privatization

#The challenges of privatization are well described in this International Handbook. On the theoretical side, market efficiency gains are shown to be balanced with agency and market failure losses. Empirically, a wide range of case studies offer many lessons on best practices. The book should ...

Energy in a competitive market

essays in honour of Colin Robinson

#This is a stimulating, informative and remarkably varied collection of papers. It illustrates the great diversity of topics and analytic techniques that characterise the modern competitive energy sector. The papers are a testament to the distinguished and consistent contributions that Colin Robinson has made to ...

State and local finances under pressure

State and Local Finances Under Pressure explores the future of state and local government fiscal systems given the numerous pressures they face from economic, legal, technological, demographic and political forces. It explores how these multiple forces play out in terms of the changes state and ...

Controversies in monetary economics

revised edition

#This book provides an excellent overview of the controversies that have driven debate about monetary theory and policy over the last two centuries. I highly recommend the book for use in advanced undergraduate or graduate courses. This new edition revises and updates some of the ...

Evaluation in public sector reform

concepts and practice in international perspective

With an assembly of articles written by internationally renowned scholars and experts, Evaluation in Public Sector Reform is unique in its broad geographical range. It explores countries such as Australia, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden and the USA, as well as categorically addressing countries which have ...

Pension policy in an integrating Europe

#Pension systems as essential institutions are perpetually pressured to meet lofty welfare and insurance goals, while still satisfying fiscal and efficiency constraints. This book provides several European perspectives for reform options from key thinkers active in the policy arena. All seeking to save pensions from ...

Public policy in knowledge-based economics

Foundations and frameworks

Knowledge is a product of human social systems and, therefore, the foundations of the knowledge-based economy are social and cultural. Communication is central to knowledge creation and diffusion, and Public policy in knowledge-based economics highlights specific social and cultural conditions that can enhance the communication ...

The distribution of tax burdens

The Distribution of Tax Burdens brings together for the first time the most important published papers on tax incidence written in the past 50 years. The editors, two leading scholars in public finance, have written an authoritative introduction which provides a concise and thorough summary ...

The economics of poverty and inequality

This major two-volume collection focuses on the economics of distributional equity and the way general criteria for comparisons of income-distribution can be used to inform the analysis of inequality and poverty. The issues addressed include: # the nature of general ranking rules for comparing economic states ...

The economics of schooling and school quality

#Does education cause economic growth? Is education a kind of human capital formation? The human investment revolution in economic thought started in earnest over 40 years ago and then seemed to peter out in the 1970s and 80s. More recently, it has taken off again ...

Controlling public expenditure

the changing roles of Central budget agencies -better guardians?

#This is an excellent book that should be read by students and scholars of public budgeting. It contains a balance of works by some of the world#s experts in the field. The book is well-organized and the chapters are well- written, referenced and edited ...

Foundations of social capital

#As theoretical paradigms develop, there comes a time when they need careful synthesis, deep reflection and wise criticism. It is now that time for the arguments regarding social capital. Political scientists are fortunate that a scholar as pre- eminent as Elinor Ostrom, and her able ...

On creating competition and strategic restructuring

regulatory reform in public utilities

#The introductory chapter by the editors is extremely wide-ranging and therefore very useful for any reader not yet introduced to the manifold intricacies of this topic. What is remarkable about this chapter is that three aspects are dealt with at the same time: the driving ...

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 ...

Market failure or success

Recent years have seen the development of new theories of market failure based on asymmetric information and network effects. According to the new paradigm, we can expect substantial failure in the markets for labor, credit, insurance, software, new technologies and even used cars, to give ...