Discapacidad y mercado de trabajo

Federalism and labour market policy

comparing different governance and employment strategies

Evolución contemporánea del gasto público en España

Financing human capital

a capital markets approach to student funding

Most higher education finance literature assumes that students cannot pledge their future earnings to finance their education in a free society. Investing in Human Capital challenges that assumption and explores human capital contracts as an alternative mechanism for financing higher education. Investing in Human Capital ...

Mujer y desarrollo en el siglo XXI

voces para la igualdad

Monetary policy, fiscal policies and labour markets

macroeconomic policymaking in the EMU

Three years after the birth of the European Monetary Union (EMU) economists are still divided in their assessment of the ability of its key institutions to provide macroeconomic stability and foster the reforms necessary to stimulate economic growth. In this collection, experts focus on issues ...

Building a dynamic Europe

the key policy debates

Edited by Jordi Gual. This succinct book provides a broad panorama of the key economic policy challenges facing the European Union today. The enlargement of the EU and its lacklustre performance over the last decade in terms of employment and productivity growth have prompted wide-ranging ...

Euros and europeans

monetary integration and the european model of society

Central banking in Eastern Europe

This book, written by a multinational team of experts, explores the changing face of central banking in Eastern Europe in the light of modern macroeconomic thinking, providing important and novel insights into the design of monetary policy institutions. With its authoritative content, this book will ...

The political theories of risk analysis

Structural economics

The interface of national accounting and economic analysis is something of a neglected area within economics. This important new book explains how national accounts can be used for economic modelling via input- output analysis - the main tool in the field. Structural Economics provides an accounting ...

The struggle over work

the "end of work" and employment alternatives for post-industrial societies

The future of work in advanced industrial democracies is the subject of intense debate and public concern. Despite predictions that working hours would fall and leisure time would rise as society progressed, the opposite has in fact occurred. This new book contains a twofold investigation ...

Unmaking Goliath

community control in the face of global capital

In an effort to counter the argument that cities and communities are always powerless in the face of footloose corporations who think nothing of leaving localities in the lurch, "Unmaking Goliath" asks two key questions: What can localities do in the face of heightened capital ...

Applied economics

thinking beyond stage one

The application of economics to major contemporary real world problems--housing, medical care, discrimination, the economic development of nations--is the theme of this new book that tackles these and other issues head on in plain language, as distinguished from the usual jargon of economists. It examines ...

The development of the financial sector in southeast Europe

innovative approaches in volatile environments

KfW has been assigned responsibility by the German government and several other donors for projects designed to reconstruct the financial landscapes of Southeast Europe. These activities are recognized as quite successful in building sustainable financial institutions that serve the small end of the market, with ...

Environmental and resource policy for consumer durables

A recent line of research in environmental and resource economics deals with the analysis of the so-called product-related environmental policy, i.e. the regulation of certain product characteristics which are mainly determined by producers and which influence the impact of consumption goods on the environment ...

Monetary strategies for joining the euro

In this book, well-known economists an policymakers look at the next step in the integration process for accesssion countries: accession to European Monetary Union

Money matters

essays in honour of Alan Walters

As a tribute to the exceptional contribution of Alan Walters to montary theory and plicy, this book draws together a distinguished cast of international contributors to write about money. In a series of essays they review controversies in monetary economics, and debate current policy issues ...

Explaining and forecasting the US federal funds rate

a monetary policy model for the US

This book has been written as a practical guide for finance markets professionals to explain US monetary policy and to make forecasts of future interest rate levels. Aimed at market players, familiar with US policy instruments, Explaining and Forecasting the US Federal Funds Rate will ...

Global governance of drug and pharmaceutical industries

transatlantic, trilateral and multilateral policy cooperation for drug safety

The recultion of drug safety and the governance of globalization in the pharmaceutical industry present growing challenges for govermments, the viotechnology sector and civil society. Currently, regulation and policy is driven by the interests of industrialized nations. However recent conflicts over patents, generics, and emerging ...