Princeton University Press: 2605 books
Interest and Prices
Foundations of a Theory of Monetary Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
With the collapse of the Bretton Woods system, any pretense of a connection of the world's currencies to any real commodity has been abandoned. Yet since the 1980s, most central banks have abandoned money-growth targets as practical guidelines for monetary policy as well. How then can pure "fiat"...
Pricing the Planet's Future
The Economics of Discounting in an Uncertain World
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2012
Our path of economic development has generated a growing list of environmental problems including the disposal of nuclear waste, exhaustion of natural resources, loss of biodiversity, climate change, and polluted land, air, and water. All these environmental problems raise the crucial challenge of...
by Laura L. Veldkamp
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
Most theories in economics and finance predict what people will do, given what they know about the world around them. But what do people know about their environments? The study of information choice seeks to answer this question, explaining why economic players know what they know--and how the information...
by Louis Eeckhoudt, Christian Gollier, Harris Schlesinger
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2011
An understanding of risk and how to deal with it is an essential part of modern economics. Whether liability litigation for pharmaceutical firms or an individual's having insufficient wealth to retire, risk is something that can be recognized, quantified, analyzed, treated--and incorporated into our...
by Robert K. Dixit, Robert S. Pindyck
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2012
How should firms decide whether and when to invest in new capital equipment, additions to their workforce, or the development of new products? Why have traditional economic models of investment failed to explain the behavior of investment spending in the United States and other countries? In this...
Dark Markets
Asset Pricing and Information Transmission in Over-the-Counter Markets
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
Over-the-counter (OTC) markets for derivatives, collateralized debt obligations, and repurchase agreements played a significant role in the global financial crisis. Rather than being traded through a centralized institution such as a stock exchange, OTC trades are negotiated privately between market...
by Peter Davis, Eliana Garcés
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
This book combines practical guidance and theoretical background for analysts using empirical techniques in competition and antitrust investigations. Peter Davis and Eliana Garcés show how to integrate empirical methods, economic theory, and broad evidence about industry in order to provide high-quality,...
by Robert Shimer
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Labor Markets and Business Cycles integrates search and matching theory with the neoclassical growth model to better understand labor market outcomes. Robert Shimer shows analytically and quantitatively that rigid wages are important for explaining the volatile behavior of the unemployment rate in...
Digital Dice
Computational Solutions to Practical Probability Problems (New in Paperback)
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2013
Some probability problems are so difficult that they stump the smartest mathematicians. But even the hardest of these problems can often be solved with a computer and a Monte Carlo simulation, in which a random-number generator simulates a physical process, such as a million rolls of a pair of dice....
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Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
In even the most market-oriented economies, most economic transactions occur not in markets but inside managed organizations, particularly business firms. Organizational economics seeks to understand the nature and workings of such organizations and their impact on economic performance. This landmark...
The Reemergence of Self-Employment
A Comparative Study of Self-Employment Dynamics and Social Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
This book presents results of a cross-national research project on self-employment in eleven advanced economies and demonstrates how and why the practice is reemerging in modern societies. While traditional forms of self-employment, such as skilled crafts work and shop keeping, are in decline, they...
Credit Risk
Pricing, Measurement, and Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
In this book, two of America's leading economists provide the first integrated treatment of the conceptual, practical, and empirical foundations for credit risk pricing and risk measurement. Masterfully applying theory to practice, Darrell Duffie and Kenneth Singleton model credit risk for the purpose...
Liberty and Coercion
The Paradox of American Government from the Founding to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
American governance is burdened by a paradox. On the one hand, Americans don't want "big government" meddling in their lives; on the other hand, they have repeatedly enlisted governmental help to impose their views regarding marriage, abortion, religion, and schooling on their neighbors....
The Process Matters
Engaging and Equipping People for Success
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
We do business in a results-oriented world. Our focus on growth is laudable for its clarity, but one of its downsides is that firms can lose sight of the process: how business gets done and the individuals or employees through whom results are achieved. This leads to compromised decisions and unethical...