Sex trafficking

international context and response

Trafficking in persons, particularly the trafficking of women into sexual servitude (sex trafficking) has generated much attention over the past decade. This book provides a critical examination of the international and national frameworks developed to respond to this issue - focused both on the design of ...

Curso de teoría del Derecho

Next generation datacenters in financial services

driving extreme efficiency and effective cost savings

Financial markets are witnessing an unprecedented explosion in the availability of data, and the firms that survive will be able to leverage this information to increase their profit and expand their opportunities in a global world. Financial firms have two options: to build their own ...

State, power, crime

Eds. Roy Coleman...[et al]; Preface by Stuart Hall. 'Following the outstanding introduction by the authors there are fifteen excellent original articles devoted to an integrated theory of the relationship between the state and crime. This work is on the cutting edge of critical criminology ...

The no-nonsense guide to world food

Covering fast food, organic food, junk food, institutional food, and more, this guide shows how "real food" has become increasingly scarce, with production and distribution increasingly dominated in the West by agri-business. The guide goes on to present the alternatives that are emerging based on ...

Law and power in the Middle East

proceedings of the Fourth Carlsberg Academy Conference on Medieval Legal History 2007

This volume, the fourth in the series, contains the proceedings from the conference Law and Power in the Middle Ages and covers a wide range of topics from individual and local case studies to broader reflections the relationship between law and power, secular as well ...

Political institutions and financial development

Economists have long maintained that a well-developed and functioning financial system is a vital prerequisite to economic growth. Countries with robust banking sectors and securities markets - that is, countries in which credit cards, loans, mortgages, and the ability to issue stocks and bonds are available ...

The professional risk managers' guide to the energy market

Manage financial and investment risk on a global scale with the very best in the field. Announcing the Partnership of McGraw- Hill and The Professional Risk Manager's International Association, made up of the world's leading risk management scholars and practitioners, The Professional Risk ...

The new day trader advantage

sane, smart, and stable finding the daily trades that make you rich

With patience comes profitability - this is the creed of the new day trader. Investors are abuzz about the rebirth of the day trader: rather than trading volatile stocks multiple times in a single day, extremely active traders are now holding onto investments longer, relying more ...

Code red

an economist explains how to revive the healthcare system without destroying it

The U.S. healthcare system is in critical condition - but this should come as a surprise to no one. Yet until now the solutions proposed have been unworkable, pie-in-the-sky plans that have had little chance of becoming law and even less of succeeding. In "Code ...

Pricing interest-rate derivatives

a fourier-transform based approach

This book provides a modular pricing framework which allows the valuation of interestrate derivatives in a general jump-diffusion setup. Starting with a comparison of three Fourier-style pricing methodologies, the book covers the derivation of Fourier-transform based solutions for different interest-rate derivatives by using contour integration ...

Bond Portfolio optimization

The book analyzes how modern portfolio theory and dynamic term structure models can be applied to government bond portfolio optimization problems. The author studies the necessary adjustments, examines the models with regard to the plausibility of their results and compares the outcomes to portfolio selection ...

Create your own ETF hedge fund

a do-it-yourself ETF strategy for private wealth management

Many investors are intrigued by the profit potential of today's hedge funds, but most feel like they're on the outside looking in - due to the high investment requirements and complexity of these vehicles. Create Your Own ETF Hedge Fund will allow you to ...

Five strategies you need right now

What will count among the most urgent strategic issues facing your organizations in the next 5-10 years? And what should you be doing - today - to get ready? Get the answers from "Five Future Strategies You Need Right Now". Renowned strategist, consultant, and author George Stalk ...

Public finance and public policy

Gruber's "Public Finance and Public Policy" was the first text written from the ground up to reflect current realities of public finance, enhancing its survey of traditional topics with an emphasis on empirical work and coverage of transfer programs and social insurance. The new ...

Financial risk management with bayesian estimation of GARCH models

theory and applications

This book presents methodologies for the Bayesian estimation of GARCH models and their application to financial risk management. The study of these models from a Bayesian viewpoint is relatively recent and can be considered very promising due to the advantages of the Bayesian approach, in ...

Corruption, inequality, and the rule of Law

Corruption flouts rules of fairness and gives some people advantages that others don't have. Corruption is persistent; there is little evidence that countries can escape the curse of corruption easily - or at all. Instead of focusing on institutional reform, Uslaner suggests that the roots ...

Toxic Torts

science, Law, and the possibililty of justice

The relationship between science, law and justice has become a pressing issue with recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions beginning with Daubert v. Merrell-Dow Pharmaceutical. How courts review scientific testimony and its foundation before trial can substantially affect the possibility of justice for persons wrongfully ...

Development macroeconomics

Since it was first published in 1995, "Development Macroeconomics" has remained the definitive textbook on the macroeconomics of developing countries. Now, in this fully revised and updated third edition, Pierre- Richard Agenor and Peter Montiel cover the latest advances in this rapidly changing field, making ...

Bringing the jobless into work?

experiences with activation schemes in Europe and the US

Eds. Werner Eichhorst, Otto Kaufmann, Regina Konle-Seidl. Over the last decade, many industrialized countries shifted from passive unemployment and welfare benefit regimes and traditional active labor market and social policies to activation strategies by making benefit receipt conditional upon accepting job offers or participation in ...