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Anomalies in the European REITs Market
Evidence from Calendar Effects
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
This book analyses calendar anomalies in the real estate industry with a focus on the European market. It considers annual, monthly and weekly calendar anomalies looking at a representative sample of European REITs and highlights the main differences amongst the countries.
Sraffa and the Reconstruction of Economic Theory: Volume Three
Sraffa's Legacy: Interpretations and Historical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
This book accounts for the work done around the two central aspects of Piero Sraffa's contribution to economic analysis, namely the criticism of the neoclassical theory of value and distribution and the construction of economic theory along the lines of the Classical approach.
Towards a New Understanding of Sraffa
Insights from Archival Research
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
This book provides fresh insights on Piero Sraffa's work, by examining previously unpublished papers from Sraffa archives. It offers new perspectives on the connection between Sraffa amd Marx, and examines Sraffa's approach to money, the role of equilibrium and of the surplus in economic theory.
Micro-blogging Memories
Weibo and Collective Remembering in Contemporary China
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
This book offers an in-depth account of social media, journalism and collective memory through a five-year analysis of Weibo, a leading Chinese micro-blogging platform, and prism of transitional China in a globalizing world.
How does society remember public events in the rapidly changing...
Networked Consumers
Dynamics of Interactive Consumers in Structured Environments
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
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.
Experimental Economics
Volume II: Economic Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
How do applications affect behavior? Experimental Economics Volume II seeks to answer these questions by examining the auction mechanism, imperfect competition and incentives to understand financial crises, political preferences and elections, and more.
Rethinking the Market Economy
New Challenges, New Ideas, New Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
This book explores the changing socio-economic and technological landscape of the 21 century and what it means. It adopts an industrial economic approach, whilst proposing a road map leading to the adoption of a 'societal market economy' model as an appealing and politically acceptable third-way between capitalism and socialism.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Higher education is increasingly important to the labor market success of individuals and the prosperity of nations, yet, as this book shows, public funding for higher education is declining. It presents innovative approaches to increasing funding for universities through closer ties with business and through privatization of universities.
The Politics of EU-China Economic Relations
An Uneasy Partnership
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
This book examines the political factors in the economic relationship between the European Union and China that help to explain the apparent stalling of the EU-China strategic partnership in policy terms. Written by two specialists with long experience of EU-China relations, this new volume draws...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2010
'How to combine the community, the market, and the state in the total economic system is probably the most important agenda for economists geared towards the reduction of poverty in developing economies'. - Professor Yujiro Hayami This volume brings together leading scholars from all around the world...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
An examination of the greening of the automotive industry by the path dependence of countries and carmakers' trajectories. Three sources of path dependency can be detected: business models, consumer attitudes, and policy regulations. The automobile is changing and the race towards alternative driving systems has started!
Energy Investments
An Adaptive Approach to Profiting from Uncertainties
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
This book examines what lies behind the uncertainties surrounding the fuel and power markets. Exploring the role of renewables and how they potentially disrupt or create opportunities, it challenges widely accepted wisdoms in investment. The author asks questions such as: Are “business as usual”...
Dynamics of Asymmetric Territorial Conflict
The Evolution of Patience
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
This book provides a comprehensive study of asymmetric territorial conflict combining game theory, statistical empirical analysis and historiographic analysis. Using the Israeli-Palestine conflict as a case study, it tests the model on a database of almost four hundred territorial conflicts.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
This book explains the causes and consequences of the intersection of two transformative global forces - trade and conflict – since 1500. The nine historical case studies – interspersed over 500 years and spanning the globe - make a major historical contribution to the enduring debate about whether trade makes peace more likely.