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.

La ruta de los conventos vista por Seymour Chwast

Los amantes de la historia, la arquitectura o la religión, tienen una nueva puerta abierta a la riqueza patrimonial de la provincia de Sevilla gracias al libro que ha editado la Diputación dedicado a «La ruta de los conventos». Esta guía de viaje, ilustrada por ...

Repertorio bibliográfico de Xavier Zubiri

La Fundación de Xavier Zubiri de Norteamérica publica con satisfacción la nueva edición completa de la bibliografía de Xavier Zubiri, prepara por Rafael Lazcano. Esta obra de referencia práctica es el resultado de un enorme esfuerzo y dedicación de su autor durante los últimos años ...

Derechos colectivos de los funcionarios públicos

ÍNDICE: CAPÍTULO I: Unilateralidad y legalidad en el reconocimiento de los derechos colectivos de los funcionarios.- CAPÍTULO II: La representación de los funcionarios. 1. La LORAP como origen de las diferencias entre funcionarios y trabajadores. 2. Breves apuntes sobre la representación sindical de los funcionarios ...

Finite difference methods in financial engineering

a partial differential equation approach

Today's most complete and practical guide to finite difference methods and its applications to derivatives The application of finite difference methods (FDM), long popular in areas such as fluid mechanics and heat transfer, has become increasingly vital for pricing derivative products in today's ...

An introduction to fund management

"An Introduction to Fund Management" introduces readers to the economic rationale for the existence of funds, the different types available, investment strategies and many other related issues from the perspective of the investment manager. It gives an overview of the whole business and explores the ...

Ranking business schools

forming fields, identities and boundaries in international management education

International comparisons and rankings of universities and business schools have proliferated in recent years. Ranking Business Schools provides a welcome analysis of this development and its implications for the field of management education, theorizing the role of classifications such as rankings in forming and structuring ...

Institutions, development, and economic growth

Leading international economists discuss how and why institutions influence growth. This work talks about the empirical and theoretical studies that provide an overview and contribute to the current research. The determinants of economic growth and development are hotly debated among economists. Financial crises and failed ...

The exceptional manager

making the difference

Most businesses face the choice of either competing on the 'low road' of cost, or the 'high road' of innovation and value. Much the same goes for national economies and the UK is no exception. But how do businesses - and the people who manage them ...

El contrato de trabajo en la hostelería

encuadramiento y peculiariadades

ÍNDICE: Abreviaturas.- Prólogo.- PRIMERA PARTE: COORDENADAS OBJETIVAS Y SUBJETIVAS. Cap.1. Delimitación objetiva. a) Los entornos institucionales y empresariales. Cap.2. Delimitación subjetiva. a) El sujeto trabajador. b) El sujeto empleador.- SEGUNDA PARTE: SISTEMA DE RELACIONES LABORALES. Cap.3. La contratación laboral. Cap.4. El ...

Cycle representations of Markov processes

This book is a prototype providing new insight into Markovian dependence via the cycle decompositions. It presents a systematic account of a class of stochastic processes known as cycle (or circuit) processes - so-called because they may be defined by directed cycles. These processes have special ...

Strategy, economic organization, and the knowledge economy

the coordination of firms and resources

The rise of the knowledge economy has far-reaching implications for the nature of economic organization as well as firm strategy. Not surprisingly, thinking in management studies as well as in economics has been profoundly affected by these changes. Thus, management thinking in particular has been ...

Handbook mortgage backed securities

Frank J. Fabozzi is one of the world's foremost authorities on fixed income securities and derivative instruments, and the author or editor of dozens of widely acclaimed fixed income books, including The Handbook of Fixed Income Securities, which sold more than 25,000 copies ...

Panel data econometrics

theoretical contributions and empirical applications

Panel data econometrics has evolved rapidly over the last decade. Dynamic panel data estimation, non-linear panel data methods and the phenomenal growth in non-stationary panel data econometrics makes this an exciting area of research in econometrics. The 11th international conference on panel data held at ...

Revolutionary wealth

Revolutinary Wealth is about how tomorrow's wealth will be created, and who will get it and how. But twenty-first-century wealth, according to the Tofflers, is not just about money, and cannot be understood in terms of industrial-age economics. Thus they write here about everything ...

High-tech entrepreneurship

managing innovation variety and uncertainty

High-tech businesses form a crucial part of entrepreneurial activity - in some ways representing very typical examples of entrepreneurship, yet in some ways representing quite different challenges. The uncertainty in innovation and advanced technology makes it difficult to use conventional economic planning models, and also means ...

International trade and business

law, policy and ethics

International trade and business law courses are offered by most law schools and business departments. An increasing number of practising lawyers are required to provide expert advice on international business practices and export trade law. This book is an ideal sourcebook for students ans practitioners ...

Sovereign default risk valuation

implications of debt crises and bond restructurings

The J curve

a new way to understand why nations rise and fall

Locate nations on the J Curve - left for authoritarian, right for democratic. Then figure out how to force those on the left to open their societies, rather than encouraging them to shut them tighter by further isolating them. The West's isolation of Kim Jong-il ...