Discusses the politics of the global economy - about how firms prosper by understanding those politics, or fail by misunderstanding them. This book contains cases which can be used by instructors to build a framework of analysis that helps them to understand the challenges of international trade and master the opportunities they represent.
Discusses the politics of the global economy - about how firms prosper by understanding those politics, or fail by misunderstanding them. This book co...
Presents a discussion of the issues related to risk, volatility, value and risk management. This book examines ways to manage risk and compute value-at-risk for exchange risk associated to debt portfolios and portfolios of equity. It also covers the Basel II framework implementation and securitisation.
Presents a discussion of the issues related to risk, volatility, value and risk management. This book examines ways to manage risk and compute value-a...
Surveys major economic issues in the development of countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region since World War II. This book covers topics such as, patterns of growth, economic reform strategies, the role of OPEC and oil in development, water scarcity and agricultural policies, population, education strategies, and labor markets.
Surveys major economic issues in the development of countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region since World War II. This book covers t...
- The first book of its kind to cover institutional issues in gender empowerment on all five continents - Can be used as a textbook in Development Economics, Sociology, Women's Studies and International Development at universities at the postgraduate level and by government departments, international organizations such as the World Bank, the United Nations Development Program and other non-governmental organizations
- The first book of its kind to cover institutional issues in gender empowerment on all five continents - Can be used as a textbook in Development ...
Since the summer of 2007, credit markets in almost all industrial countries have been in substantial turmoil and this has become the focus of intense policy debates. The papers in this volume are contributed by the world's leading financial experts and constitute a thorough examination of the first credit market turmoil of the 21st Century. They provide an overview of the main causes, transmission mechanisms and economic implications of what by now has become a major systemic financial crisis. They assess the most important policy considerations and conclude about how to stabilize financial...
Since the summer of 2007, credit markets in almost all industrial countries have been in substantial turmoil and this has become the focus of intense ...
Gary R Saxonhouse was one of the leading world scholars on Japanese economy. Born in New York City in 1943, he attended Yale University, where he received his PhD in Economics in 1971. He joined the Faculty of Economics at the University of Michigan beginning in 1970, where he taught throughout his career. The selection of his published papers that comprises this two-volume publication is a testimony and tribute to his remarkable accomplishments and influence that were cut short by his untimely death in November 2006, following a battle with leukemia.Volume II features a selection of his...
Gary R Saxonhouse was one of the leading world scholars on Japanese economy. Born in New York City in 1943, he attended Yale University, where he rece...
In the last few decades, the forces giving rise to global markets have reached unprecedented heights. This important book explores the new role that markets are playing in developing countries, from the strategic perspective of a firm and from a public policy perspective. Most of the important works on marketing in developing countries were written before the globalization era. As such, many of the important questions that this book seeks to answer about the appropriateness of market-led development have not been posed: What are the distributional implications of markets? With privatization,...
In the last few decades, the forces giving rise to global markets have reached unprecedented heights. This important book explores the new role that m...
This is a collection of papers dedicated to the memory of well-known WTO staffer Bijit Bora who died suddenly in 2006. The papers include applied analysis of questions of policy in international trade in fields related to Bora's interests, including foreign direct investment, trade in services, competition policy, and trade and development. It contains previously unpublished papers by Bora himself on the impact of the WTO.
This is a collection of papers dedicated to the memory of well-known WTO staffer Bijit Bora who died suddenly in 2006. The papers include applied anal...
Alan Deardorff was 65 years old on June 6, 2009. To celebrate this occasion, a Festschrift in his honor was held on October 2-3, 2009, in the Rackham Amphitheater at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The Festschrift was entitled “Comparative Advantage, Economic Growth, and the Gains from Trade and Globalization: A Festschrift in Honor of Alan V Deardorff.” It was co-organized by two of Professor Deardorff's former students, Drusilla Brown of Tufts University and Robert Staiger of Stanford University, together with Robert Stern representing the University of...
Alan Deardorff was 65 years old on June 6, 2009. To celebrate this occasion, a Festschrift in his honor was held on October 2-3, 2009, in the Rackham ...
The global credit crisis of 2008-2009 was the most serious shock to the world economy in fully 80 years. It was for the world as a whole what the Asian crisis of 1997-1998 was for emerging markets: a profoundly alarming wake-up call. By laying bare the fragility of global markets, it raised troubling questions about the operation of our deeply integrated world economy. It cast doubt on the efficacy of the dominant mode of light-touch financial regulation and more generally on the efficacy of the prevailing commitment to economic and financial liberalization. It challenged the managerial...
The global credit crisis of 2008-2009 was the most serious shock to the world economy in fully 80 years. It was for the world as a whole what the Asia...