Macroeconomics category: 2722 books
Financial Economics
A Concise Introduction to Classical and Behavioral Finance
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Financial economics is a fascinating topic where ideas from economics, mathematics and, most recently, psychology are combined to understand financial markets. This book gives a concise introduction into this field and includes for the first time recent results from behavioral finance that help to...
New Trends in Finance and Accounting
Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference on Finance and Accounting
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2016
This book presents the most current trends in the field of finance and accounting from an international perspective. Featuring contributions presented at the 17th Annual Conference on Finance and Accounting at the University of Economics in Prague, this title provides a mix of research methods used...
Hard Landing
The Epic Contest for Power and Profits That Plunged the Airlines into Chaos
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
In this updated paperback edition of a "rich, readable, and authoritative" Fortune) book, Wall Street Journal reporter Petzinger tells the dramatic story of how a dozen men, including Robert Crandall of American Airlines, Frank Borman of Eastern, and Richard Ferris of United, battled for control of the world's airlines. 416 pp. Radio drive-time pubilcity. 20,000 print.
by Joseph E. Stiglitz
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
A Nobel prize winner challenges us to throw off the free market fundamentalists and reclaim our economy.
We all have the sense that the American economy—and its government—tilts toward big business, but as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains in his new book, People, Power, and Profits, the situation...
by Ning Wang, Bin Zhang, Peiyong Gao
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
This book employs a qualitative analysis of China’s publicly financed construction sector, taking the system design as its point of departure and applying comprehensive evaluation techniques to create an index system for this type of construction – which in turn serves as a basis for quantitatively...
The Money Mafia
A World in Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Exposing perceived fault lines in our banking and financial systems and explaining how unemployment could be cut in half in two years and worldwide prosperity restored, this book argues the existence of exotic energy sources to replace fossil fuels and consequently recommends an immediate end to fracking...
The Good Society
The Human Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 1997
The legendary economist explains how a nation can remain both compassionate and fiscally sound, with “common sense raised to the level of genius” (The New Yorker).
This compact, eloquent book offers a blueprint for a workable national agenda that allows for human weakness without compromising...
Volatile Capital Flows in Korea
Current Policies and Future Responses
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Volatility in Korean Capital Markets summarizes the Korean experience of volatile capital flows, analyzes the economic consequences, evaluates the policy measures adopted, and suggests new measures for the future.
by Antonio Mele, Yoshiki Obayashi
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Fixed income volatility and equity volatility evolve heterogeneously over time, co-moving disproportionately during periods of global imbalances and each reacting to events of different nature. While the methodology for options-based "model-free" pricing of equity volatility has been known...
Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend
Examining Its Suitability as a Model
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Contributors discuss the Alaska Permanent Fund (APF) and Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) as a model both for resource policy and for social policy. This book explores whether other states, nations, or regions would benefit from an Alaskan-style dividend. The book also looks at possible ways that the model might be altered and improved.
by Farrokh Langdana, Peter T. Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
In the curricula of highly ranked MBA programs, two areas of discussion are conspicuously absent: International Trade, and Global Macroeconomic Policy. In this post-financial crisis environment, as the US and other advanced economies continue to experience sluggish growth, persistently high unemployment,...
by Jeffrey A. Dubin
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
Taxpayer compliance is a voluntary activity, and the degree to which the tax system works is affected by taxpayers’ knowledge that it is their moral and legal responsibility to pay their taxes. Taxpayers also recognize that they face a lottery in which not all taxpayer noncompliance will ever be...
Bootleggers & Baptists
How Economic Forces and Moral Persuasion Interact to Shape Regulatory Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2014
In Bootleggers & Baptists: How Economic Forces and Moral Persuasion Interact to Shape Regulatory Politics, economists Bruce Yandle and Adam Smith explain how money and morality are often combined in politics to produce arbitrary regulations benefiting cronies, while constraining productive economic activities...
Average Is Over
Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Renowned economist and author of Big Business Tyler Cowen brings a groundbreaking analysis of capitalism, the job market, and the growing gap between the one percent and minimum wage workers in this follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Great Stagnation.
The United States continues...