The scale and impacts of money laundering

Money laundering is a problem of some magnitude internationally and has long term negative economic impacts. Brigitte Unger argues that today, money laundering is largely linked to fraud and that it is not only small islands and tax heavens that launder, but increasingly industrialized countries ...

Untangling the US deficit

evaluationg causes, cures and global imbalances

From a situation of near zero in 1990, the US current account deficit has expanded to a record level of almost $900 billion in 2006. Debate about the deficit's causes and consequences has also grown. Is the deficit a product of American profligacy or ...

Keynes, the keynesians and monetarism

"Keynes, the Keynesians and Monetarism" is a major contribution to the continuing debate on macroeconomic policy-making. Tim Congdon has been a strong supporter of monetarist economic principles for over 30 years. His writings - in the newspapers and for parliamentary committees, as well as in academic ...

Globalisation, development and transitio

conversations with eminent economists

This unique book provides a comprehensive survey of the major economic issues that have helped shape the modern world. It includes discussions of the latest research findings in the international economic development literature and scrutinizes some of the most important debates in contemporary economics. Brian ...

Agglomeration, technology and business groups

"Agglomeration, Technology and Business Groups" critically reviews the reasons for the creation of business groups and examines their main characteristics. The authors demonstrate that any useful investigation of the organization and strategies of firms needs to take the business group as the basic unit of ...

Tax compliance and tax morale

a theoretical and empirical analisys

The european service economy

changes and policy implications for Europe

This book contributes to a better understanding of the service economy. By exploring the key dimensions, available empirical evidence and associated policy implications, the author comprehensively investigates the new challenges facing the global economy, including employment, productivity, innovation and competitiveness. The case of the European ...

Handbook on the economics of happiness

This book is a welcome consolidation and extension of the recent expanding debates on happiness and economics. Happiness and economics, as a new field for research, is now of pivotal interest particularly to welfare economists and psychologists. This Handbook provides an unprecedented forum for discussion ...

The technology imperative

The convergence of technology-based competitive capabilities among the world's economies has drastically altered the required economic growth strategies in industrialized nations. Based on a variety of corporate and government investment trend data and comparisons among national growth strategies, Gregory Tassey examines how this convergence ...

Regulatory impact assessment

towards better regulation?

Better state regulation is a key component of economic reform. This is the first book to comprehensively explore international experience in the use of Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA), which involves assessing the potential benefits and costs of any regulatory change. The authors reveal that RIA ...

Cluster policies in Europe

firms, institutions, and governance

This book provides a comprehensive and much-needed study of cluster policies in Europe. It focuses on one very important element that has so far been disregarded in the literature, namely, the extent to which the complex dynamics of multi-level governance are responding to the problems ...

Vertical relationships and the firm in the global economy

This book analyses the vertical relationships of firms in an international context. These relationships, Khalid Sekkat argues, have gained further relevance due to the notable increase in vertical specialization of production across borders in the past few years. The author discusses the objectives and instruments ...

The economics of services

development and policy

Jan Owen Jansson argues that conventional economic theory is very focused on material goods markets. By making the special character of services as market objects the starting point for the economic system analysis, he offers a new perspective on the problems facing mixed economies.

Modelling tax revenue growth

This book demonstrates how the reliable measurement of growth in tax revenues, both for a tax system and for its component taxes, is important for the design of tax policy. The need for discretionary changes in tax parameters (such as tax rates, income thresholds and ...

European merger control

do we need an efficiency defence?

During its first fifteen years, the EUs merger control system, unlike most others in the world, offered only minimal possibilities for taking efficiency gains into account as a mitigating factor that might offset the anti-competitive effects of a merger. This book examines the background to ...

The Elgar companion to health economics

The aim of The Elgar Companion to Health Economics is to take an audience of advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers to the frontier of research in health economics, by providing them with short and easily readable introductions to key topics. The volume brings together 50 ...

Innovation markets and competition analysis

EU competition Law and US antitrust Law

#The pace and scope of technological change is increasing, but some innovative technologies take years before they give rise to saleable products. Before they do, there is competition in ideas and research, but the ideas cannot be market tested, because there are no products or ...

Innovation strategies in interdependent States

essays on Smaller Nations, regions and cities in a globalized world

Examining the issues facing smaller regions and countries, John de la Mothe explores how innovation, strategy and interdependence shape their performance, competition, and futures. Innovation and interdependence are central elements of advanced and advancing economies. In our globalized world, the production of knowledge is continually ...

New frontiers in the economics of innovation and new technology

essays in honour of Paul A. David

Recent research on the economics of innovation has acknowledged the importance of path dependence and networks in the evolution of economies and the diffusion of new techniques, products, and processes. These are topics pioneered by Paul A. David, one of the world's leading scholars ...

Beyond the regulation approach

putting capitalist economies in their place

Table of Contents: 1 Early regulation approaches in retrospect and prospect 2 Fordism and post-Fordism 3 Fordism, post-Fordism and the capitalist state 4 Neo-conservative regimes and the transition to post-Fordism 5 A regulationist re-reading of East Asian newly industrializing economies : from peripheral Fordism to exportism ...