Innovation and the growth of cities

Recent developements in the econometrics of panel data

In this landmark collection, the editor has selected the most influential papers on the econometrics of panel data published in the period from 1992-2002, thus providing an update on developements in the field since the two volumes edited by G.S.Maddala. Topics covered in ...

Political pressure, rhetoric and monetary policy

lessons for the European Central Bank

Philipp Maier offers an examination of the extent to which governments and various interest groups have exerted pressure on central banks. The book looks in particular at the Deutsche Bundesbank - which acted as the blueprint for the European Central Bank (ECB) - and utilizes an original ...

Sustainability and endogenous growth

Since 1990, interest in growth theory in the context of the environment has increased dramatically, resulting in a vast array of articles and books applying different modelling approaches and focusing on a variety of diverse topics. Dealing with endogenous growth under environmental restrictions, Karen Pittel ...

Economic integration and development

has regionalism delivered for developing countries?

Questions related to the economics of regionalism became increasingly important beginning in the late 1980s, when regional groupings started to become for more popular as a tool of commercial policy. The goal of this text is to address the question of whether or not regionalism ...

The foundations of entrepreneurship

Recent changes in the world economy have made the pursuit of entrepreneurial opportunity increasingly important to wealth creation. Moreover, as business schools worldwide have embraced the study of entrepreneurship, a conceptual framework for the field is beginning to emerge. This text examines the people who ...

Economic foundations of private law

This reader brings together some seminal papers on law and economics, with special emphasis on the foundational contributions to the economics of property, contracts and torts. The growing influence of these writings in the judicial profession, and in the academic world, underscores the relevance and ...

Financial markets, money and the real world

The author highlights the central role that domestic and international financial markets play in determining the economic growth rate, unemployment rate and international payments position of capitalist economics. He explains why the primary function of financial markets is to create liquidity and demonstrates that a ...

Beyond rules in society and business

This provocative new book challenges traditional tenets about behavioral regulation in society as well as in business. Verner Petersen asserts that attempts to solve ethical problems by creating explicit guidelines, codes and rules discourage individual reflection and responsibility. Likewise, attempts to put important aspects of ...

The nature of economic growth

an alternative framework for understanding the performance of nations

This text charts development economics as it evolved from Adam Smith to "new" or endogenous growth theory. Thirlwall is critical of the latter, and its predecessor neo-classical growth theory, and tries to put back demand as a driving force in growth theory.

The economics of public choice

In this fully revised second edition of a popular text, Patrick McNutt presents more ideas and challenges to all those interested in political economy and public choice. Chapter 2 looks at the economic nature of contracts and reviews the "contractual form" by interpreting the Edgeworth-Bowley ...

Sustainability in action

Sectorial an regional case studies

Financial and monetary integration in the new Europe

convergence bertween the EU and Central and Eastern Europe

European monetary integration

past, present and future

This highly topical book examines the development and future prospects for economic and monetary union in Europe. European Monetary Integration examines the background to economic and monetary union from a historical perspective that distinguishes between national and supranational currency areas, and an optimal currency area ...

Variants in economic theory

Selected Works of Hal R.Varian

THal Varian, in the course of a long and distinguished career, has made a seminal contribution to many branches of economics. His path-breaking work on the development of economic theory, finance, industrial organization and econometrics is represented in this important new collection of key articles ...

Privatization and public policy.

Recent developements in game theory

Rational Behaviour and the Design of Institutions.

Concepts, Theories and Models..

Global Trading Arrangements in Transition.

Handbook on the globalization of the World Economy.