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The Oxford Handbook of Bayesian Econometrics
ISBN: 9780199559084 / Angielski / Twarda / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bayesian econometric methods have enjoyed an increase in popularity in recent years. Econometricians, empirical economists, and policymakers are increasingly making use of Bayesian methods. This handbook is a single source for researchers and policymakers wanting to learn about Bayesian methods in specialized fields, and for graduate students seeking to make the final step from textbook learning to the research frontier. It contains contributions by leading Bayesians on the latest developments in their specific fields of expertise. The volume provides broad coverage of the application of...
Bayesian econometric methods have enjoyed an increase in popularity in recent years. Econometricians, empirical economists, and policymakers are incre...
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702,29 |
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New Insights Into the Theory of Giffen Goods
ISBN: 9783642217760 / Angielski / Miękka / 171 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One might expect that after their identification in the 19th century, all aspects of Giffen goods would have been studied by now. This appears not to be the case. This book contains the latest insights into the theory of Giffen goods. In the past, surprisingly few goods could be categorized as "Giffen." This may be because of a lack of understanding of the character of these goods. Therefore, the theories explained in this book may also produce a solid basis for further empirical research in the field. Experts throughout the world have contributed to this book, which predominantly pursues a...
One might expect that after their identification in the 19th century, all aspects of Giffen goods would have been studied by now. This appears not to ...
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402,53 |
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The Use of Management Projections for Valuations: A BVR Special Report
ISBN: 9781935081784 / Angielski / Miękka / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many of the companies appraisers work with don t have meaningful forecasts, and even if they do, they often contain unreliable assumptions. Appraisers are often faced with the choice between no forecast, adjusting a weak forecast or providing their own. All of these options have their downsides, and no one can accurately predict the future. But short of abandoning the income approach all together, there are steps appraisers can take to ensure they have provided a meaningful forecast in their valuation. This new report from BVR provides tips and strategies appraisers can use to address...
Many of the companies appraisers work with don t have meaningful forecasts, and even if they do, they often contain unreliable assumptions. Appraisers...
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556,75 |
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Economic Policies in a Time of Financial Crisis
ISBN: 9781611226867 / Angielski / Twarda / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The financial crisis that began in 2007 spread and gathered intensity in 2008, despite the efforts of central banks and regulators to restore calm. This title presents and discusses the economic policies which have been put into place by the United States government in order to address these problems.
The financial crisis that began in 2007 spread and gathered intensity in 2008, despite the efforts of central banks and regulators to restore calm. Th...
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910,93 |
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Business Aspects of Web Services
ISBN: 9783642224461 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Driven by maturing Web service technologies and the wide acceptance of the service-oriented architecture paradigm, the software industry s traditional business models and strategies have begun to change: software vendors are turning into service providers. In addition, in the Web service market, a multitude of small and highly specialized providers offer modular services of almost any kind and economic value is created through the interplay of various distributed service providers that jointly contribute to form individualized and integrated solutions. This trend can be optimally catalyzed... Driven by maturing Web service technologies and the wide acceptance of the service-oriented architecture paradigm, the software industry s traditio... |
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Networked Consumers: Dynamics of Interactive Consumers in Structured Environments
ISBN: 9780230280212 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Personal consumption accounts for two thirds of GDP, yet recent economic events have emphasised our limited ability to translate consumption patterns into policy. Steven Silver analyses this understudied area, exploring the network memberships that emerge from our everyday lives, and the consumption patterns these create.
Personal consumption accounts for two thirds of GDP, yet recent economic events have emphasised our limited ability to translate consumption patterns ...
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201,24 |
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Crises and Cycles in Economic Dictionaries and Encyclopaedias
ISBN: 9780415499033 / Angielski / Twarda / 678 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book investigates from the perspective of the major economic dictionaries the notions of economic crisis and cycles. It gives an extensive summary of a number of significant entries on this subject, with an introductory essay to each entry placing them (and the dictionary to which they belong) in their context, giving some details on the author of the dictionary entry, and assessing the entry's (and its author's) contribution. The broad picture (including the history of these encyclopedic tools) is examined in the introductory essays. Extra resources may be accessed at the... This book investigates from the perspective of the major economic dictionaries the notions of economic crisis and cycles. It gives an extensive sum... |
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Measuring Political Risk: Risks to Foreign Investment
ISBN: 9780754642299 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offering a fresh, transparent approach encompassing new material, this invigorating volume measures political risk - for instance the risk that foreign investment might face in any country. It also demonstrates how progress or regress made in good governance initiatives as conditionalities to aid can be assessed. Governments can monitor their own policy environment(s), and take remedial action if necessary. The methodology allows for measurement of previously un-quantified 'soft' factors that add to the risks foreign investors might face, demonstrating why these factors are of importance to...
Offering a fresh, transparent approach encompassing new material, this invigorating volume measures political risk - for instance the risk that foreig...
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695,99 |
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The Truth about Money
ISBN: 9780615561578 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Making Better Decisions: Decision Theory in Practice
ISBN: 9781444336511 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Making Better Decisions introduces readers to some of the principal aspects of decision theory, and examines how these might lead us to make better decisions.
Making Better Decisions introduces readers to some of the principal aspects of decision theory, and examines how these might lead us to make be...
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Financing Small Enterprises in Developing Nations: Learning from Experience
ISBN: 9781571052988 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This innovative work is designed to enhance understanding about the practical issues that investors, entrepreneurs and policy makers, as well as students of international development, must contend with in order to improve small business access to investment capital in developing countries. The volume contains a number of case studies that describe and analyze a number of actual small business investments in order to highlight the special risks, challenges, pitfalls, and commitments that are found in most developing country investment environments. The diversity of the cases, covering a range...
This innovative work is designed to enhance understanding about the practical issues that investors, entrepreneurs and policy makers, as well as stude...
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The Index Number Problem: Construction Theorems
ISBN: 9780199670581 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A theft amounting to L1 was a capital offence in 1260 and a judge in 1610 affirmed the law could not then be applied since L1 was no longer what it was. Such association of money with a date is well recognized for its importance in very many connections. Thus arises the need to know how to convert an amount at one date into the right amount at another date: in other words, a price index.
The longstanding question concerning how such an index should be constructed is known as 'The Index Number Problem'. The ordinary consumer price index represents a practical response to this need. However... A theft amounting to L1 was a capital offence in 1260 and a judge in 1610 affirmed the law could not then be applied since L1 was no longer what it wa...
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621,10 |
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Environmental Value Transfer: Issues and Methods
ISBN: 9789048170357 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The transfer of environmental values in time and space has increased rapidly with the widespread use of cost benefit analysis in project evaluation and regulatory assessments over the last three decades. Over the last 15 years, other policy uses like environmental costing, greening of systems of national accounts and natural resource damage assessments after oil spills and other pollution accidents have also contributed to the increased demand for environmental values. However, most early transfers were conducted in an uncritical manner, often lacking sound theoretical, statistical and...
The transfer of environmental values in time and space has increased rapidly with the widespread use of cost benefit analysis in project evaluation an...
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The Economics of Abundance: A Political Economy of Freedom, Equity, and Sustainability
ISBN: 9780566089404 / Angielski / Twarda / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This main thesis of this book is that our current capitalist economy can exist only on the basis of manufactured scarcity created by 'scarcity-generating institutions'. The text argues that, by analyzing how scarcity-generating institutions work and then reforming or dismantling them, we can enhance individual freedom.
This main thesis of this book is that our current capitalist economy can exist only on the basis of manufactured scarcity created by 'scarcity-generat...
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Democracy At Work: Workers' Self-Directed Enterprises
ISBN: 9781608462476 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Richard Wolff is the leading socialist economist in the country. This book is required reading for anyone concerned about a fundamental transformation of the ailing capitalist economy."Cornel West Richard Wolff s constructive and innovative ideas suggest new and promising foundations for a much more authentic democracy and sustainable and equitable development, ideas that can be implemented directly and carried forward. A very valuable contribution in troubled times. Noam Chomsky "Probably America's most prominent Marxist economist.""The New York Times" Capitalism as a... "Richard Wolff is the leading socialist economist in the country. This book is required reading for anyone concerned about a fundamental transforma... |
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Economic Fables
ISBN: 9781906924775 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "I had the good fortune to grow up in a wonderful area of Jerusalem, surrounded by a diverse range of people: Rabbi Meizel, the communist Sala Marcel, my widowed Aunt Hannah, and the intellectual Yaacovson. As far as I'm concerned, the opinion of such people is just as authoritative for making social and economic decisions as the opinion of an expert using a model." Part memoir, part crash-course in economic theory, this deeply engaging book by one of the world's foremost economists looks at economic ideas through a personal lens. Together with an introduction to some of the central concepts...
"I had the good fortune to grow up in a wonderful area of Jerusalem, surrounded by a diverse range of people: Rabbi Meizel, the communist Sala Marcel,...
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76,83 |
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History and Financial Crisis: Lessons from the 20th Century
ISBN: 9780415622974 / Angielski / Twarda / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One striking weaknesses of our financial architecture, which helped bring on and perhaps deepen the panic of 2008, is an inadequate appreciation of the past. 'History and Financial Crisis' attempts to broaden the range of historical sources used by policy makers to understand and treat financial crises.
One striking weaknesses of our financial architecture, which helped bring on and perhaps deepen the panic of 2008, is an inadequate appreciation of th...
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857,10 |
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Public Microeconomics: Efficiency and Equity in Public Policy
ISBN: 9780857932075 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book contains a concise, simple, yet precise discussion of externalities, public goods and insurance. Rooted in the first fundamental theorem of welfare economics and in noncooperative equilibrium, it employs elementary calculus. The book presents established theory in novel ways, and offers the tools for the application of the social welfare criteria of efficiency and equity to environmental economics, networks, bargaining, political economy, and the pricing of public goods and public utilities. This innovative, user-friendly textbook will be of use over a broad range of disciplines....
This book contains a concise, simple, yet precise discussion of externalities, public goods and insurance. Rooted in the first fundamental theorem of ...
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582,57 |
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The Capitalist Mode of Power: Critical Engagements with the Power Theory of Value
ISBN: 9780415661997 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited volume offers the first critical engagement with one of the most provocative and controversial theories in political economy: the thesis that capital can be theorized as power and that capital is finance and only finance. The book also includes a detailed introduction to this novel thesis first put forward by Nitzan and Bichler in their Capital as Power. Although endorsing the capital as power argument to varying extents, contributors to this volume agree that a new understanding of capital that radically departs from Marxist and Neoclassical theories cannot be... This edited volume offers the first critical engagement with one of the most provocative and controversial theories in political economy: the thesi... |
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734,66 |
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Growing Income Inequalities: Economic Analyses
ISBN: 9780230303423 / Angielski / Twarda / 325 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the widening gap between the wage packets of skilled and unskilled workers that has become a pressing issue for all states in the globalized world economy. Comparing the experiences of more and less developed economies, chapters analyse the underlying causes and key social changes that accompany income inequality.
This book explores the widening gap between the wage packets of skilled and unskilled workers that has become a pressing issue for all states in the g...
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201,24 |