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Trade, Growth and Development
Essays in Honor of Professor T.N.Srinivasan
Inbunden, 1999
2639 kr
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In March 1998 professional colleagues and students of T.N. Srinivasan joined together at the Festschrift Conference at Yale to honor his work. The book contains nineteen of the contributions which were presented, reflecting the four closely related dimensions of trade and development. Part I deals …
Theory of Monetary Aggregation
Av William A. Barnett, A. Serletis
Inbunden, 2000
2564 kr
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In recent years, there has been renewed interest in index number and aggregation theory, since the two previously divergent fields have been successfully unified. The underlying aggregator functions which are weakly separable subfunctions of utility and production functions, are the building blocks …
Creation and Analysis of Employer-employee Matched Data
Av John Haltiwanger, Julia I. Lane m. fl.
Inbunden, 1999
2752 kr
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This book consists of a selected subset of papers presented at the International Symposium of Linked Employer-Employee Data, held in Washington DC, in May 1998 - to address the creation and analysis of such matched data in an environment that safeguards respondent confidentiality. The conference …
Panel Data and Structural Labour Market Models
Av H. Bunzel, Bent Christensen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2000
1528 kr
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Panel Data and Structural Labour Market Models" is the latest volume in a series of four, reporting on the original work of an international group of scholars with research interests in the performance of the labour markets that condition the dynamic labour market experiences of individual workers. …
Environmental Taxation and the Double Dividend
Inbunden, 2000
1528 kr
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Environmental Taxation and the Double Dividend" explores the welfare effects of environmental taxes in a second-best framework. It starts from a benchmark model which reveals that environmental taxes typically exacerbate pre-existing tax distortions, even if the revenues are used to cut other …
Regional Science Perspectives in Economic Analysis
A Festschrift in Memory of Benjamin H. Stevens
Inbunden, 2001
2186 kr
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This book contains contributions from friends of Ben Stevens, remembering and celebrating his life and his work. Following his untimely death, a set of special sessions were organized for the program of the November 1998 meetings of the Regional Science Association International, held in Sante Fe, …
Explaining Unemployment
Econometric Models for the Netherlands
Inbunden, 1998
1922 kr
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Europe's notoriously high level of unemployment is one of the big puzzles of empirical macroeconomics. In recent years, the unemployment rate has fallen in The Netherlands, but the overall level in OECD Europe remains high. An investigation into why Dutch economic policy has been relatively …
Optimal Growth Economics
An Investigation of the Contemporary Issues and the Prospect for Sustainable Growth
Inbunden, 2001
1833 kr
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Optimal Growth Economics" is concerned with the investigation of the contemporary issues in general economics, and growth economics and in the formulation of optimal growth programs, especially the issue of the sustainability of growth. This book proposes the development of optimal growth economics …
Functional Structure and Approximation in Econometrics
Av William A. Barnett, J.M. Binner
Inbunden, 2004
2148 kr
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Economic theory defines and constrains admissible functional form and functional structure throughout the economy. Constraints on behavioral functions of individual economic agents and on the recursive nesting of those behavioral functions often are derived directly from economic theory. …
Mimicing Tax Policies and the Labour Market
Av Johan J. Graafland, R.A. de Mooij
Inbunden, 1998
1922 kr
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In the Netherlands, CPB often adopts the MIMIC model to explore the structural labour market implications of changes in the tax and social-insurance system. This applied general-equilibrium model combines microeconomic theory with a rich institutional detail and a firm empirical basis. This book …
Economics of Art and Culture
Invited Papers at the 12th International Conference of the Association of Cultural Economics International
Inbunden, 2003
1811 kr
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This volume contains a large selection of the invited papers given at the Twelfth Conference of the Association of Cultural Economics International held in Rotterdam in 2002. Two sessions were devoted to what came to be called the cultural industries (movies, television, media, etc.). Two dealt …
Input-output Analysis of European Integration
Av Alex R. Hoen
Inbunden, 2002
1903 kr
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Trade theories predict and explain the consequences of economic integration. Generally, they show that freer international trade leads to specialisation, technological convergence and faster economic growth. This study compares the conclusions of the trade theories with empirical observations of …
Measuring Market Power
Inbunden, 2002
1865 kr
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Dedicated to the measurement and definition of market power across a broad array of industries, this text should provide economists and lawyers with an insight into how anti-trust economists actually go about measuring market power in a given industry. The "Contributions to Economic Analysis" …
Technological Change and the Dynamics of Industries
Theoretical Issues and Empirical Evidence from Dutch Manufacturing
Inbunden, 2002
1340 kr
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"Technological Change and the Dynamics of Industries" focuses on variances in the structural and dynamic properties of manufacturing industries. By exploring the theoretical and empirical literature in industrial economics, by using a longitudinal firm-level database, and by developing and …
Dynamics of Endogenous Economic Growth
A Case Study of the Romer Model
Inbunden, 2003
2205 kr
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This book is concerned with the methods by which the dynamics of endogenous economic growth systems may be analysed and numerically computed, and with the validation of such numerical computations through qualitative economic reasoning. The methods comprise linearization, phase-space analysis and a …
Dynamic General Equilibrium Modelling for Forecasting and Policy
A Practical Guide and Documentation of MONASH
Av Peter B. Dixon, Maureen T. Rimmer
Inbunden, 2002
2054 kr
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The "Contributions to Economic Analysis" series consists of a number of previously unpublished studies. The term economic analysis is used because it covers the activities of the theoretical economist and the research worker.
Applied Financial Econometrics in e-Commerce
Av Sardar M. N. Islam, K.B. Oh
Inbunden, 2003
1865 kr
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This title is concerned with the investigation of the contemporary financial issues of the e-commerce market.
Coalitions in Oligopolies
An Introduction to the Sequential Procedures
Av Maurray Brown, Shin-Hwan Chiang
Inbunden, 2003
1865 kr
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This book examines sequential coalition formation in oligopolies. Coalitions refer to mergers and acquisitions, cartels, and associations. The principal aim is the prediction and explanation of the coalition structure - whether an industry will emerge as a monopoly, say, or as a collection of …
Urban Dynamics and Growth
Advances in Urban Economics
Av R Capello, R. Capello m. fl.
Inbunden, 2005
1702 kr
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The volume aims to produce an updated collection of advanced theories and methods in the field of urban policies, and highlights modern urban policies that stem from them. Contributions stress the limits of previous theories and methods, and emphasize the new directions that are developed in the …
Economics of Time Use
Av Daniel S. Hamermesh, Gerard A. Pfann
Inbunden, 2004
2281 kr
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These studies are based on information on time use in nine countries. Such studies will become more common as more governments fund time-budget surveys and as economists realize the benefits of using this type of data. Each does something that either could not have been accomplished at all, or that …
Economic Growth and Social Welfare
Operationalising Normative Social Choice Theory
Av Matthew Clarke, Sardar M. N. Islam
Inbunden, 2004
1811 kr
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This book studies the relationships between economic growth and social welfare and the policy implications of these relationships for development. Understanding the relationships between economic growth and social welfare is an enduring issue within contemporary development economics and welfare …
New Directions in Macromodelling
Inbunden, 2004
1941 kr
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The monograph concentrates on recent developments in modelling economic processes on macro level. Namely there are two main areas of interest: co-integration analysis and the use of high frequency time series. Special emphasis is put on testing, application of VEqCM models to I(1) as well as I(2) …
Fostering Productivity
Patterns, Determinants and Policy Implications
Inbunden, 2004
1865 kr
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The main purpose of this book is to enhance the understanding of differences in productivity performance between countries and sectors and to improve our insight in the drivers of productivity levels and its growth. Due to demographics the speed-up of productivity growth will be of increasing …
Taxing the Hard-to-tax
Lessons from Theory and Practice
Av James Robert Alm, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez m. fl.
Inbunden, 2005
1427 kr
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The goal of this edited volume is to take a hard, objective look at the many different aspects of taxing the hard-to-tax, as well as the many different approaches that have been employed around the world. In the developed and developing world, taxing certain kinds of activities, sectors, or …
Tourism, Trade and National Welfare
Av Bharat R. Hazari, Pasquale Sgro
Inbunden, 2004
1427 kr
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Volume 265 of the Contributions to Economic Analysis book series covers, among others, subject areas such as Tourism and Trade; A Two-Sector General Equilibrium Model of a Small Open Economy; Non-Traded Goods and Tourism in the Pure Theory of Trade; Tourism, Taxes and Immiserization in a …
Environmental Policy, International Trade and Factor Markets
Inbunden, 2004
1884 kr
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This book examines the intricate relationship among trade and investment policies, as well as environmental regulations, especially for developing economies. Trade liberalization via tariff reduction and market reforms has contributed significantly to the growth of the world economy. Nonetheless, …
Unfunded Pension Systems
Ageing and Migration
Inbunden, 2004
1903 kr
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Pension systems in most industrialised countries are unfunded, i.e. they are pay-as-you-go financed and thus depend on a well-balanced ratio (old) recipients to (young) contributors. This so-called dependency ratio will worsen significantly in the next few decades due to two developments: ageing of …
Political Economy of Policy Reform
Essays in Honor of J. Michael Finger
Av D. Nelson
Inbunden, 2004
2111 kr
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This volume collects the papers from a conference in honor of J. Michael Finger on the occasion of his retirement from the World Bank. The papers cover a number of important issues in the analysis of policy reform and the political economy of policy reform. In particular, papers focus on the …
Modelling the Riskiness in Country Risk Ratings
Inbunden, 2005
2394 kr
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The importance of country risk is underscored by the existence of several prominent country risk rating agencies. These agencies combine information regarding alternative measures of economic, financial and political risk into associated composite risk ratings. As the accuracy of such country risk …
Nonlinear Time Series Analysis of Business Cycles
Av C. Milas, P. A. Rothman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
1615 kr
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The business cycle has long been the focus of empirical economic research. Until recently statistical analysis of macroeconomic fluctuations was dominated by linear time series methods. Over the past 15 years, however, economists have increasingly applied tractable parametric nonlinear time series …
