The primary purpose of the book is to understand how China has used foreign investment to promote local development. It uses the case studies of five Chinese regions that have joint venture projects in the auto industry. The analysis covers two decades... Zobraziť viac
Cooke and Morgan explore important issues of corporate reorganization in the context of heightened global competition, focusing upon how firms associate with regional milieu. In-depth studies of inter-firm and firm-agency interactions are presented for... Zobraziť viac
Why do some privatisations apparently fail to produce expected positive results? This is a comprehensive book, originally published in 1998, on privatisation which focuses on micro-level behavioural issues and it uses exceptionally rich case evidence... Zobraziť viac
The majority of empirical research in economics ignores the potential benefits of nonparametric methods, while the majority of advances in nonparametric theory ignore the problems faced in applied econometrics. This book helps bridge this gap between... Zobraziť viac
Moral philosophers agree that welfare matters. But they disagree about what it is, or how much it matters. Wayne Sumner presents an original theory of welfare, investigating its nature and discussing its importance. He considers and rejects all notable... Zobraziť viac
Talks about the time varying betas of the capital asset pricing model, analysis of predictive densities of nonlinear models of stock returns, modelling multivariate dynamic correlations, flexible seasonal time series models, estimation of long-memory... Zobraziť viac
This volume, first published in 1998, presents developments in urban geography, club theory, local public finance, and international trade which contribute to the explanation of the modern opposing trends of integration and segregation. Zobraziť viac
Our lives have gradually become dominated by markets. They are not only at the heart of capitalistic economies all over the world, but also central in public debates. This insightful book brings together existing knowledge on markets from sociology,... Zobraziť viac
This distinctive book sets forth, on an advanced level, various methods for the quantitative measurement of important relationships at issue in the areas of the balance of payments and international trade and welfare. The results achieved in recent... Zobraziť viac
Top experts in the field discuss how to improve the effectiveness of foreign aid, proposing practical solutions to specific problems rather than a utopian master plan.The urgency of reducing poverty in the developing world has been the subject of a... Zobraziť viac
An engaging and comprehensive look at the intersection of financial innovation and the environment... Zobraziť viac
This book presents the econometric analysis of single-equation and simultaneous-equation models in which the jointly dependent variables can be continuous, categorical, or truncated. Zobraziť viac
Major survey of the history and culture of Roman Britain. Brings together specialists to provide an overview of recent debates about this period. Zobraziť viac
COMMUNICATION IN CULTURALLY DIVERSE CONTEXT offers an insight into an area of communication as an outcome of negotiated meanings within particular cultural contexts. The processed authentic texts enable the reader to gain the basic understanding of... Zobraziť viac
Earthquakes, droughts, floods, and storms are natural hazards, but unnatural disasters are the deaths and damages that result from human acts of omission and commission. Every disaster is unique, but each exposes actions-by individuals and governments... Zobraziť viac
Few periods in history compare to the Great Depression. Stock market crashes, bread lines, bank runs, and wild currency speculation were worldwide phenomena--all occurring with war looming in the background. This period has provided economists with a... Zobraziť viac
This book demonstrates that the state-contingent approach provides the best way to think about all problems in the economics of uncertainty, including problems of consumer choice, the theory of the firm, and principal agent relationships. The authors... Zobraziť viac
Reveals Lenin's dealings with Western business through a study of Russian railways. Zobraziť viac
Unter Szenarioplanung versteht man eine spezielle Methode der Vorhersage zukünftiger politischer, ökonomischer und demographischer Entwicklungen, die das Funktionieren eines Unternehmens beeinflussen können. Diese Technik wird hier von renommierten... Zobraziť viac
This book brings together a collection of papers that Robert M Stern and his co-authors have written in recent years. The collection addresses a variety of issues pertinent to the global trading system. One group of papers deals with globalization in... Zobraziť viac
