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  • Edward Elgar Publishing  (50)
  • Andersen, Hans Christian
  • Dombroski, Kelly
  • Nickel, Johanna (1916-1984)
  • Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing  (50)
  • Konferenzschrift  (41)
  • Industrial policy
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  • 1
    ISBN: 9781035305629
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 332 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Twenty-first century macroeconomics
    DDC: 338.927
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    Keywords: 1980-2006 ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Klimawandel ; Umweltschutz ; Welt ; Economic development Environmental aspects ; Macroeconomics ; Global warming ; Konferenzschrift ; Klimaänderung ; Umweltschutz ; Klimaschutz ; Wirtschaftspolitik
    Abstract: The authors and editors of this book challenge traditional assumptions about economic growth, and develop the elements of a reoriented macroeconomics that takes account both of environmental impacts and social equity. Policies including carbon trading, revenue recycling, and reorientation of private and social investment are analyzed, providing insight into new paths for economic development with flat or negative carbon emissions. These issues will be crucial to macroeconomic and development policies in the twenty-first century. What are the likely economic effects of climate change? What are the costs of substantial action to avert climate change? What economic policies can be effective in responding to climate change? The debate has broad implications for public policy. However, it also raises fundamental questions about economic analysis itself, and moves issues of environmental policy from the microeconomic to the macroeconomic level. Taking global climate change seriously requires a re-examination of macroeconomic goals. Economic growth has been closely linked to expanded use of energy, primarily fossil fuels. The assumption of continuing economic growth, in turn, leads economists to discount future costs, including the generational impacts of climate change. Challenging conventional concepts of growth implies different development paths both for rich and poor nations. This volume brings together contributions from scholars around the world to address these issues. Scholars, researchers and students of economics and development studies along with policymakers and non-governmental organizations will find this insightful book of great interest
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction / Jonathan M. Harris and Neva R. Goodwin -- Part I: The scope of the challenge -- 1. Understanding the challenge of global warming / Lloyd J. Dumas -- 2. The new climate economics: The stern review versus its critics / Frank Ackerman -- 3. Economics and climate change: Resilience, equity, and sustainability / Neva R. Goodwin -- 4. The right to development in a climate-constrained world / Paul Baer, Tom Athanasiou and Sivan Kartha -- Part II: Macroeconomic theory perspectives -- 5. The economic fundamentals of global warming / Duncan K. Foley -- 6. Energy productivity, labor productivity, and global warming / Lance Taylor -- 7. Macroeconomics and sustainable development: Applying the sustainomics framework / Mohan Munasinghe -- 8. Ecological macroeconomics: Consumption, investment and climate change / Jonathan M. Harris -- Part III: Policy options for responding to climate change -- 9. Cap and dividend: How to curb global warming while promoting income equity / James K. Boyce and Matthew Riddle -- 10. Policies for funding a response to climate change / Brian Roach -- 11. The new EU emissions trading scheme: A blueprint for the global carbon market? / Christian Egenhofer -- 12. Implementation of sustainable development in Poland / Andrzej Kassenberg -- 13. Climate change from the investor's perspective / Adam Seitchik -- Index.
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9781035305650
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 271 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New directions in modern economics series
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Monetary policy and financial stability
    DDC: 332.46
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    Keywords: 1995-2004 ; Geldpolitik ; Preisstabilität ; Globalisierung ; Keynesianismus ; Welt ; Monetary policy ; Keynesian economics ; Economic policy ; Banks and banking, Central ; Kaleckian Model of Growth and Distribution ; Monetary policy ; Keynesian economics ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Geldpolitik ; Neokeynesianismus
    Abstract: This book provides an enlightening glimpse into the deep theoretical traditions of post-Keynesian theory whilst also illuminating the richness and uniqueness of post-Keynesian economic policy. The editors have gathered together leading scholars and researchers to push the boundaries of post-Keynesian thinking. They address a number of important issues dealing with wage determination, income distribution and central bank governance. Many of these chapters share a common theme including a criticism of the usefulness of monetary policy in fighting or targeting inflation and the questions this raises for central bank governance. The book also focuses on open economy issues such as capital flows, globalization, FDI and the Washington Consensus. Monetary Policy and Financial Stability is required reading for students, scholars and researchers of economics, and for policymakers seeking rational alternatives to the current neo-classical orthodoxy
    Description / Table of Contents: Wage bargaining and monetary policy in a Kaleckian monetary distribution and growth model : making sense of the NAIRU / Eckhard Hein -- Price and wage determination and the inflation barrier : moving beyond the Phillips curve / Philip Arestis and Malcolm Sawyer -- Central bank governance, the euthanasia of the rentier and interest rate policy : a note on post-Keynesian monetary policy after Taylor / Louis-Philippe Rochon -- The macroeconomic governance of the European Monetary Union : a Keynesian perspective / Angel Asensio -- Inflation targeting and monetary policy governance : the case of the European Central Bank / Sergio Rossi -- Enforcing the IMF in the global economy : an institutional analysis / Jean-Pierre Allegret and Philippe Dulbecco -- Too much consensus could be harmful : assessing the degree of implementation of stabilization and structural policies and their impact on growth / Eric Berr, François Combarnous and Eric Rougier -- The political economy of global economic disgovernance / Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira -- Tobin, globalization and capital flows / Robert W. Dimand -- The impact of FDI on capital formation : the case of Mexico / Claudia Maya -- Financial liberalization, economic growth and rents / Domenica Tropeano -- The Argentine Jefes program : from a post-financial crisis emergency safety net to a long-run policy promoting development / Corinne Pastoret.
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  • 3
    ISBN: 9781035305407
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 428 pages) , illustrations, maps
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Entrepreneurship and innovations in functional regions
    DDC: 338/.04
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    Keywords: Entrepreneurship ; Innovation ; Regionalentwicklung ; Entrepreneurship ; Technological innovations ; Industrial location ; Unternehmen ; Innovation ; Forschung und Entwicklung ; Know-how-Transfer ; Regionalentwicklung ; Kongress ; Konferenzschrift ; Unternehmen ; Innovation ; Forschung und Entwicklung ; Know-how-Transfer ; Regionalentwicklung ; Kongress
    Abstract: In recent decades, the world has witnessed the emergence of a global knowledge economy in which functional regions increasingly play a role as independent and dynamic market places. These are integrated with other functional regions by means of flows of information, knowledge, and commodities. This contemporary and illuminating book provides a state-of-the-art overview of current research on innovation and entrepreneurship in functional regions. There are numerous questions regarding entrepreneurship and innovation in functional regions that have not yet been answered - until now. Some of the issues that the expert contributors in this field question are - How do firms compete and how do they develop their competitive strategies? How important are entrepreneurial actions and innovation? How important are firm size, firm maturity and corporate structure for innovation? Entrepreneurship and Innovations in Functional Regions will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of entrepreneurship, business economics, innovation and regional science
    Note: "The contributions forming the different chapters in this book were first presented and discussed at the Eight Uddevalla Symposium 2005 ... held at and hosted by the University West, Uddevalla, Sweden"--Pref , Includes bibliographical references and index , Introduction - Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Functional Regions / , Engineering Culture, Innovation, and Modern Wealth Creation / , Swedish Paradox Revisited / , Firm Location, Corporate Structure and Innovation / , Firm Size, Firm Maturity and Product and Process R&D in Swedish Manufacturing Firms / , University Educated Labour, R&D and Regional Export Performance / , Magnitude and Destination Diversity of Exports - the Role of Product Variety / , Differences in Survivor Functions according to Different Competitive Strategies / , Resource-Based Analysis of Bankruptcy Law, Entrepreneurship and Corporate Recovery / , Agglomeration Economies, Learning Processes, and Patterns of Firm Spatial Clustering / , Assiduous Firms in a 'Learning Region' - The Case of East-Wurttemberg, Germany / , Cluster Dynamics: Insights from Broadcasting in Three UK City-Regions / , Technology, Innovation and Latecomer Strategies: The Case of Mobile Handset Manufacturing Sector in China / , Enterprise Development Policy: Modelling the Policy Context / , Entrepreneurial Business Support Networks: A Leader Institution Perspective /
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  • 4
    ISBN: 9781035305414
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (400 pages)
    Series Statement: New horizons in regional science series
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Technological change and mature industrial regions
    DDC: 338.9
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    Keywords: 1950-2005 ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Regionalentwicklung ; Alte Industrieregion ; Regionalpolitik ; Welt ; Technological innovations Economic aspects ; Technological innovations Political aspects ; Technological innovations ; Industrial policy ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Regionalwirtschaft ; Regionalentwicklung ; Industriepolitik ; Technische Innovation
    Abstract: Technological Change and Mature Industrial Regions explicitly adopts an inter-disciplinary approach to analysing the structural transformation of mature regions. The major focus of the book is from an economics perspective, but it also employs sociological analyses, business history approaches and technological analyses. It critically considers the identification and development of regional capabilities and regional policy initiatives for mature industrial areas in the context of globalisation and technological change. Specific cases from a range of different countries help to distinguish which aspects of mature regions' technology, knowledge or structure are region-specific, and which are more generally applicable to mature industrial regions throughout the world. The book will prove to be invaluable for academic researchers as well as government and policy communities
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Part I: Mature regions: Technology, society and industrial structure -- 1. The problems of mature regions: An Introduction and overview / Mahtab Akhavan Farshchi, Odile E.M. Janne and Philip McCann -- 2. Regional capabilities and industrial regeneration / Nick von Tunzelmann -- 3. Multinational firms and technological innovation: The 'global versus local' challenge / Simona Iammarino, Odile E.M. Janne and Philip McCann -- 4. Interdependence among the Brazilian states: An input-output approach / Fernando Salgueiro Perobelli, Eduardo Amaral Haddad and Edson Paulo Domingues -- 5. The changing structure of trade and interdependence in a mature economy: The us midwest / Geoffrey J.D. Hewings and John B. Parr -- 6. Mature industries and declining regions: An analysis of the Spanish case / Josep-Maria Arauzo-Carod and Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal -- Part II: Mature region-industry case studies -- 7. Birmingham's marshallian knowledge: A constraining geo-historical context for domestic saloon manufacturers? / Peter Clark -- 8. Life after longbridge? Crisis and restructuring in the west midlands auto cluster / David Bailey and Seiji Kobayashi -- 9. Massachusetts medical devices: Leveraging the region's capabilities / Michael H. Best -- 10. Economic restructuring, regional 'visioning' and the role of universities: The outcomes of an automobile plant closure in southern adelaide, australia / Andrew Beer and Holli Thomas -- 11. Maturity or decline of Italian industrial districts / Ivana Paniccia -- 12. Knowledge spillovers and industrial transformation: The west midlands and saxony automotive clusters / Odile E.M. Janne and Mahtab Akhavan Farshchi -- Part III: Regional policy and mature industrial regions -- 13. A cost-benefit approach to the assessment of regional policy / J. Kim Swales -- 14. Regional policies in Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom: A shift in paradigm? / Ilaria Mariotti -- 15. Innovation policy after the 'celtic tiger' / Declan Jordan and Eoin O'Leary -- 16. Grants and the location of foreign direct investment: Evidence from the UK regions / Colin Wren and Jonathan Jones -- 17. Cluster policy implementation and evaluation in Slovenia: Lessons from a transition economy / Anja Cotič Svetina, Marko Jaklič and Hugo Zagorsek -- 18. Lagging regions and policy options: The case of greece in the European context / Yannis Psycharis and George Petrakos -- Index.
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  • 5
    ISBN: 9781035306114
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 442 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Studies of small and medium sized enterprises in East Asia 4
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Small and medium sized enterprises in East Asia
    DDC: 338.6/42095
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    Keywords: 1975-2004 ; Unternehmenserfolg ; Regionalentwicklung ; Branchenentwicklung ; KMU ; Ostasien ; Small business ; East Asia Economic conditions ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; Ostasien ; Australien ; Klein- und Mittelbetrieb ; Wirtschaftliche Lage ; Ostasien ; Südostasien ; Australien ; Klein- und Mittelbetrieb ; Wirtschaftliche Lage
    Abstract: This fourth volume in the Studies of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in East Asia series focuses on regional and sectoral dimensions in a number of regional economies and economic sectors. The contributors place special emphasis on the importance of SME networking and clustering initiatives and activities. They argue that these initiatives support and nurture the global competitiveness of local SMEs in various economic sectors across the East Asian region. The book goes on to illustrate the increasing recognition that important local, regional and sectoral dimensions of SMEs, activities require their own specific micro policy measures. This is significant as the vitality of many local regional economies depends upon the activities of these local SMEs. The importance and inherent potential of SMEs as small but significant players in national economies and industries is increasingly recognised by policymakers and scholars around the world. Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in East Asia will therefore strongly appeal to both academics and practitioners involved with business and management, Asian studies, industrial organization and entrepreneurship
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Part I. General issues -- 1. Introduction and overview - small and medium sized enterprises: Sectoral and regional dimensions / Charles Harvie and Boon-Chye Lee -- 2. The SME Policy Framework in ASEAN and APEC: Benchmarks, Comparison and Analysis / Chris Hall -- PART II. INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES AND LINKAGES -- 3. SME Export Competitiveness in Developing Countriesthrough Foreign Investment and Business Linkages / Philippe Régnier -- 4. The Internationalization of SMEs in European Transformation Economies: Lessons for East Asia? / David J. Pollard -- 5. Trust, Dependency and Reciprocity: Interconnections of Key Dimensions of Guanxi / Susan Freeman and Chandler Lim PART III: REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES -- 6. Export Performance in Small and Medium Enterprises: Sectoral and Regional Dimensions in NSW Australia / Ann Hodgkinson and Paul McPhee -- 7. Exploring the Consequences of Delayed Adoption of Electronic Commerce by Regional SMEs in Australia / Lin Crase, Peter Lamb and Evan Patullock -- 8. Reforming China's Cooperative Economy: Issues and Experiences / Jenny Clegg -- 9. SME Development Strategy in Vietnam / Charles Harvie -- 10. Innovation in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: A Study of Businesses in New South Wales Australia / Jane Olsen, Boon-Chye Lee and Ann Hodgkinson -- 11. SME Development in Malaysia: Domestic and Global Challenges / Ali Salman Saleh and Nelson Oly Ndubisi -- PART IV. INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVES -- 12. Support Mechanisms for SME Development in Indonesia: A Firm Level Survey in the Metalworking and Machinery Industry / Mitsuhiro Hayashi -- 13. Trade Reforms and the Survival of the Textiles, Clothing and Footwear Industries in Australia / Kankesu Jayanthakumaran -- 14. SME Market Entry: Barriers, Positioning and Performance in the Asia-Pacific Oil and Gas Industry / Brian Kenny and Paul Tobin -- 15. Strategic Competitiveness, Human Resource Strategy and Organizational Performance Linkage Amongst SMEs in the Malaysian Manufacturing Sector / Za'faran Hassan -- 16. The Role of Government in Fostering Sectoral SME Development: An Analysis of the Tourism Industry in Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore / Michael T. Schaper, Jack Carlsen and Ruth Taylor -- Index.
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  • 6
    ISBN: 9781035305520
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 358 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New dimensions in networks
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Cooperative networks
    DDC: 003
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    Keywords: Mathematische Optimierung ; Netzwerk ; Kooperation ; Operations Research ; System analysis ; Information networks ; Mathematical optimization ; Information networks ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; Rechnernetz ; Kooperation ; Netzwerk
    Abstract: Cooperative networks have gained a tremendous amount of attention over the last several years because of their existence not only in biological, social and economic arenas, but because of direct applications in many more areas such as communications, robotics and military sciences. This volume reflects a cross-fertilization of ideas from a broad set of disciplines and creativity from a diverse array of scientific and engineering research. While the benefits of networks in general have been recognized for quite some time, the idea of cooperative networks has several novel implications. Because distributed processing by heterogeneous nodes promises significant increases in system capability, performance and efficiency, research has intensified with a breadth of promising applications. Topics in this volume include networks of unmanned vehicles in uncertain environments, networks subject to eavesdropping and jamming, optimal node task-allocation, network complexity analysis, cooperative search involving multiple unmanned vehicles, and cooperative communications in ad-hoc networks, optimal control and optimization in man-in-the-loop scenarios. A broad array of readers, including faculty, graduate students and researchers interested in optimization, computer science, engineering, the social and behavioral sciences and related applications in cooperative systems will find this volume of great value
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Token-based approach for scalable team coordination / Yang Xu, Paul Scerri, Michael Lewis and Katia Sycara -- 2. Consensus controllability for coordinated multi-agent systems / Zhipu Jin and Richard M. Murray -- 3. Decentralized cooperative optimization for systems coupled through the constraints / Yoshiaki Kuwata and Jonathan P. How -- 4. Consensus building in cooperative control with information feedback / Wei Ren -- 5. Levy flights in robot swarm control and optimization / Yechiel J. Crispin -- 6. Eavesdropping and jamming communication networks / Clayton W. Commander, Panos M. Pardalos, Valeriy Ryabchenko, Oleg Shylo, Stan Uryasev, Grigoriy Zrazhevsky -- 7. Network algorithms for the dual of the constrained shortest path problem / Bogdan Grechuk, Anton Molyboha, Michael Zabarankin -- 8. Towards an irreducible theory of complex systems / Victor Korotkikh -- 9. Complexity of a system as a key to its optimization / Victor Korotkikh and Galina Korotkikh -- 10. Grasp with path-relinking for the cooperative communication problem on ad hoc networks / Clayton W. Commander, Paola Festa, Carlos A.S. Oliveira, Panos M. Pardalos, Mauricio G.C. Resende and Marco Tsitselis -- 11. Optimal control of an atr module - equipped mav/human operator team / Meir Pachter, Philip R. Chandler and Dharba Swaroop -- 12. An investigation of a dynamic sensor motion strategy / Nathan P. Yerrick, Abhishek Tiwari and David E. Jeffcoat -- 13. Market based adaptive task allocations for autonomous agents / Jared W. Patterson and Kendall E. Nygard -- 14. Cooperative persistent surveillance search algorithms using multiple unmanned aerial vehicles / Daniel J. Pack and George W.P. York -- 15. Social networks for effective teams / Paul Scerri and Katia Sycara -- 16. Optimization approaches for vision-based path planning for autonomous micro-air vehicles in urban environments / Michael Zabarankin, Andrew Kurdila, Oleg A. Prokopyev, Ryan Causey, Anukul Goel and Panos M. Pardalos -- 17. Cooperative stabilization and tracking for linear dynamic systems / Yi Guo -- Index.
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  • 7
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    ISBN: 9781035305667
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 281 pages) , illustration
    Series Statement: INFER advances in economic research
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The shadow economy, corruption and governance
    DDC: 338.5
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    Keywords: 1999-2004 ; Politisches System ; Institutionelle Infrastruktur ; Schattenwirtschaft ; Korruption ; Welt ; Informal sector (Economics) ; Corporations Corrupt practices ; Political corruption ; Informal sector (Economics) ; Corporations Corrupt practices ; Political corruption ; Konferenzschrift ; Schattenwirtschaft ; Regierung ; Korruption
    Abstract: This book contributes to the current debates on the shadow economy and related issues of tax evasion and corruption. The approach taken here is one that will develop a better understanding of these related issues, which are increasingly seen as impediments to country competitiveness and economic growth. Economists and policymakers are increasingly focused on how the shadow economy operates. The contributors discuss how effective corporate governance may help to reduce both the occurrence and effects of illegal activities. The book begins by considering institutional governance and how issues such as economic growth and development can be better understood by gaining a deeper understanding of the decision-making process. The importance of collective persuasion and collective decision-making in an institutional context is illustrated. The remainder of the work details a series of empirical studies outlining the role of governance and institutional capacity in assessing economic performance, the role of political competition in reducing corruption and measures of, and influences on, corruption in different countries around the world. Institutions such as the WTO, World Bank and the IMF will find much to engage them in this book as will policy makers in government and research policy agencies. It will also hold great appeal to academics (postgraduate and above) in the fields of political economy, economic development and international economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Part I: Overview -- 1. Governance and illegal activities: A survey of recent developments and issues / Michael Pickhardt and Edward Shinnick -- Part II: Key issues of institutional governance -- 2. The political economy of governance and development: Towards a new worldview / Ismail Adams -- 3. A dynamic theory of collective persuasion / Athanassios Pitsoulis -- 4. On the optimal sanction structure when individuals are imperfectly informed about the probability of apprehension / Tim Friehe -- Part III: Empirical studies on institutions, governance corruption and the shadow economy -- 5. Institutional capacity and the celtic tiger economy: Ireland in comparative perspective / Frank Barry -- 6. Reducing petty corruption: What role for a more competitive political system? / John K. Wilson -- 7. Shadow economies and corruption all over the world: What do we really know? / Friedrich Schneider -- 8. Determinants of shadow economy in tunisia and algeria: A firm-level analysis / Clara Delavallade -- 9. "it's a lot, but let it stay": How tax evasion is perceived across Italy / Carlo Fiorio and Alberto Zanardi -- 10. Why do individuals evade payroll and income taxation in Estonia? / Kenneth A. Kriz, Jaanika Meriküll, Alari Paulus, Karsten Staehr -- Index.
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  • 8
    ISBN: 9781782542087
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 315 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New horizons in international business
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Corporate strategies in the age of regional integration
    DDC: 658.4/012
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    Keywords: 1980-2005 ; Wirtschaftsintegration ; Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen ; Auslandsinvestition ; Multinationales Unternehmen ; Europa ; Ostasien ; International business enterprises Congresses ; International business enterprises Congresses ; Multinationales Unternehmen ; Auslandsinvestition ; Wirtschaftliche Integration ; Regionale Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; East Asia Congresses Economic integration ; Europe Congresses Economic integration ; East Asia Congresses Commerce ; Europe Congresses Commerce ; Konferenzschrift ; Europa ; Multinationales Unternehmen ; Strategisches Management ; Wirtschaftliche Integration ; Ostasien
    Abstract: This book presents various empirical analyses of cross border strategies adopted by global firms with a particular emphasis on the European and East Asian experiences. It also provides studies of the trends and prospects of regional economic integration, focusing mainly on East Asia. The book addresses the topic of economic integration from both a corporate perspective and a policy perspective. The contributors illustrate the powerful integrative effects of cross border strategies of global firms and their impact on the increasing economic interdependence between countries, as shown for example by production sharing within multinational corporate networks. For their part, governments and policy makers are endeavouring to influence the path of globalisation by means of international cooperation, among which the shaping of regional economic areas is an outstanding one. While Europe still stands unrivalled in terms of its regional integration achievements, East Asian countries are also trying to forge their own path by building preferential trade and investment links on a regional basis. Such attempts are still in their infancy, but they raise some healthy debates to which this edited book makes a valuable contribution. Corporate Strategies in the Age of Regional Integration will appeal to scholars and researchers of economics, business and regional studies
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Introduction / Jong-Kil Kim and Pierre-Bruno Ruffin -- Part I: Cross border strategies of global firms -- 2. Sectoral concentration of foreign direct investment in oecd countries / Ysabel Nauwelaerts and Ilke Van Beveren -- 3. European integration and inter-firm alliances: Some evidence from portuguese data / João Dias and Vítor Magriço -- 4. Fragmentation in Europe and east asia: Evidences from international trade and foreign direct investment data / Mitsuyo Ando and Fukunari Kimura -- 5. The determinants of local procurements by Japanese foreign affiliates: An estimation of factor demand function / Kozo Kiyota, Toshiyuki Matsuura, Shujiro Urata and Yuhong Wei -- 6. Outsourcing and skill upgrading in Japanese manufacturing: Destination effects evidenced from the international input-output tables / Iwao Tanaka and Eiichi Nakazawa -- 7. European retailing multinationals: Investment in asia and return effects / Marie-Laure Baron -- 8. Effect of globalization on logistics networks in east asia / Jong-Kil Kim and Jung-Wouk Woo -- Part II: Regional economic integration in east asia and Europe: Trends and prospects -- 9. Free trade agreements in east asian countries: What has been done and needs to be done / Jung Taik Hyun and Jin Young Hong -- 10. A two-hub trading bloc in east asia? / Lurong Chen -- 11. Exchange rate instability and trade integration: The case of asia / Kang-Soek Lee and Philippe Saucier -- 12. Economic power shift in east asia and its political-economic implications / Dong-Chon Suh -- 13. Mutual trade potential of central and eastern European countries: Evidence from hausman-taylor estimations / Fabienne Boudier-Bensebaa and Olivier Lamotte -- 14. The impact of trade integration on fdi flows: Evidence from the EU and asean+3 / Seyed Komail Tayebi and Amir Hortamani -- Index.
    Note: Papers presented at a conference held at the University of Le Havre (France) on Sept. 28-29, 2005 , Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 9
    ISBN: 9781035305513
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 380 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New horizons in regional science
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Entrepreneurship, industrial location and economic growth
    DDC: 338/.04094
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    Keywords: 1991-2003 ; Entrepreneurship ; Unternehmensgründung ; Unternehmenserfolg ; Unternehmenswachstum ; Betrieblicher Standort ; Investition ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; OECD-Staaten ; Entrepreneurship Congresses ; New business enterprises Congresses ; Industrial location Congresses ; Economic development Congresses ; Regional economics Congresses ; Entrepreneurship ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Standorttheorie ; Entrepreneurship ; Industrial location ; Konferenzschrift ; Unternehmen ; Unternehmenswachstum ; Standort ; Wirtschaftswachstum
    Abstract: This book examines the interrelations between entrepreneurship, industrial location and economic growth. Thus, it covers a wide range of topics, including: the economic impact of entrepreneurship; industry dynamics; growth and survival of firms; firm location and globalisation patterns; and agglomeration and growth. The chapters in the book demonstrate the need to adopt a broad perspective that combines insights from different strands of literature if we are to better understand these complex economic phenomena. In addition, the original empirical evidence from a range of different countries provides a sound foundation for developing appropriate guidance for policymakers. The contributions in this book will appeal to practitioners and policymakers interested in entrepreneurship, industrial location and industry dynamics. It will also be of interest to economic geographers, environmental scientists and local planners
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction -- 1. Entrepreneurship, industrial location and economic growth: An appraisal / Josep Maria Arauzo-Carod and Miguel Carlos Manjón-Antolin -- Part I: The economic impact of entrepreneurship -- 2. Entrepreneurial versus routinized regimes: Opportunity and the cost of experimentation / Michael Peneder -- 3. New firms and employment growth: Some empirical evidence / Josep Maria Arauzo-Carod, Daniel Liviano-Solís and Mónica Martín-Bofarull -- Part II: Industry dynamics -- 4. Demography of enterprises in Poland: Entry and exit rates in the manufacturing sector / Wojciech Rogowski and Jacek Socha -- 5. Creative destruction and transition: Evidence on firm demographics from Estonia / Jaan Masso, Raul Eamets and Kaia Philips -- 6. Sunk costs, industry dynamics and firm productivity / José Carlos Fariñas, Ana Martín-Marcos and Sonia Ruano -- Part III: Growth and survival of firms -- 7. Gibrat's law as a long-run regularity: Theory and evidence / Francesca Lotti, Enrico Santarelli and Marco Vivarelli -- 8. Growth, age and location in Spanish hotels / Mercedes Teruel-Carrizosa and Agustí Segarra-Blasco -- 9. A comparison of the determinants of survival of Spanish firms across economic sectors / Paloma López-García and Sergio Puente-Díaz -- 10. Product and process innovations and the likelihood of survival -- Raquel ortega-argilés and rosina moreno -- Part IV: Firm location -- 11. Cross-border business networks: The case of the basque eurocity corridor / Saioa Arando, Mikel Navarro and Iñaki Peña -- 12. Beyond the firm: Innovation and networks of high-technology smes / Rob Winters and Erik Stam -- 13. Accessibility, agglomeration and location / Ángel Alañón-Pardo, Josep Maria Arauzo-Carod and Rafael Myro-Sánchez -- Part V: Location and globalisation patterns -- 14. Individual and regional determinants of r&d location / Corinne Autant-Bernard -- 15. The impact of outward fdi on local employment and skill upgrading: Preliminary evidence from the Italian case / Ilaria Mariotti and Lucia Piscitello -- 16. A survival analysis of manufacturing firms in export markets / Silviano Esteve-Pérez, Juan A. Máñez-Castillejo, María E. Rochina-Barrachina and Juan A. Sanchis-Llopis -- Part VI: Agglomeration and growth -- 17. Innovation, co-operation, and labour mobility / Philip McCann and Jaakko Simonen -- 18. Agglomeration economies and firm survival / Jordi Jofre-Monseny -- Index.
    Note: "The papers collected in this book were presented at the "Workshop on Firm Demography and Industrial Location" held at the Rovira i Virgili University in November 2005 ... [and] hosted by the Grup de Recerca d'Industria i Territori (GRIT)"-- T.p. verso , Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 10
    ISBN: 9781781958957
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 218 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New horizons in environmental economics
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Economic modelling of climate change and energy policies
    DDC: 363.738/74011
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    Keywords: Klimawandel ; Umweltbelastung ; Umweltpolitik ; Energieeinsparung ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Wirtschaftsmodell ; Industrieländer ; Treibhausgas-Emissionen ; Emissionshandel ; Climatic changes Economic aspects ; Climatic changes ; Energy policy Economic aspects ; Energy policy Environmental aspects ; Environmental economics Congresses ; Energy consumption Environmental aspects ; Congresses ; Climatic changes Government policy ; Congresses ; Emissions trading European Union countries ; Congresses ; Environmental policy Evaluation ; Congresses ; Energy policy Evaluation ; Congresses ; Konferenzschrift ; Energiepolitik ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Klimaänderung
    Abstract: Climate change and energy consumption are at the forefront of current environmental debate. Whilst energy is essential to the functioning and survival of our societies, the environmental impact that energy consumption is having, particularly on climate change, is a growing concern and the design and practicalities of energy and energy-related environmental policies are under constant scrutiny. This innovative new book not only addresses the economic assessment of environmental and energy policies but also discusses the efficiency and distributional consequences these policies have for producers and consumers. With contributions from leading academics in the field, this comprehensive volume uses a variety of methodological approaches with which to explore a number of pertinent issues, including several studies on the EU Emission Trading System, as well as more advanced topics such as indeterminacy and optimal environmental public policies, energy-saving technological progress, oil shocks and energy transitions and policy design. Combining theoretical and empirical work, this timely book is a significant contribution to the existing literature and deals with issues at the frontier of current economic knowledge. Economic Modelling of Climate Change and Energy Policies is a unique and informative book and will have widespread appeal amongst scholars, students and policymakers
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Introduction and overview / Carlos de Miguel, Xavier Labandeira and Baltasar Manzano -- Part I: Some fundamentals -- 2. Growth and environment: On u-curves without u-turns / Sjak Smulders -- 3. Pollution markets: Some theory and evidence / Juan P. Montero -- Part II: The EU emission trading system -- 4. European greenhouse gas emissions trading: A system in transition / John Reilly and Sergey Paltsev -- 5. Harmonizing emission allocation. What are the equity consequences for the sectors in and outside the eu-trading scheme / Tim Hoffmann, Andreas Löschel and Ulf Moslener -- 6. The effects of a sudden co2 reduction in Spain / Xavier Labandeira and Miguel Rodríguez -- 7. An assessment of the consequences of the European emissions trading scheme for the promotion of renewable electricity in Spain / Pedro Linares, Francisco J. Santos and Mariano Ventosa -- 8. Efficient verification of firm data under the EU emissions trading system / Frauke Eckermann -- Part III: Advanced issues in climate change and energy policies -- 9. Induced technological change and slow energy capital stock turnover in an optimal co2 abatement model / Malte Schwoon and Richard S.J. Tol / / 10. Indeterminacy and Optimal Environmental Public Policies in an Endogenous Growth Model / Rafaela Pérez and Jesús Ruiz -- 11. Energy-saving technological progress in a vintage capital model / Agustín Pérez-Barahona and Benteng Zou -- 12. Oil shocks and the business cycle in Europe / Carlos de Miguel, Baltasar Manzano and José M. Martín-Moreno -- 13. Energy transitions and policy design in a gpt setting with cyclical growth through basic and applied R&D / Adriaan van Zon and Tobias Kronenberg -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 11
    ISBN: 9781782542230
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 399 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Advances in regulatory economics
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics (14 : 2006 : Bern) Liberalization of the postal and delivery sector
    DDC: 383
    Keywords: Postsektor ; Deregulierung ; EU-Staaten ; USA ; Postal service Congresses ; Delivery of goods Congresses ; Postal service Congresses ; Delivery of goods Congresses ; Konferenzschrift ; USA ; Europäische Union ; Post ; Deregulierung
    Abstract: Worldwide, postal and delivery economics has attracted considerable interest as the delivery sector undergoes rapid change and the debate on liberalization rages. This compendium of original essays has been selected from papers presented at the Rutgers University CRRI 14th Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics, May 31-June 3 2006. It explores the important new trends and issues in this rapidly changing field. The European Union's plan to open postal markets completely in 2009 has raised questions about t he role of regulation, funding for the Universal Service Obligation, the future of national Postal Operators and the principles that should govern the introduction of competition. The contributors - researchers, practitioners, lawyers and senior managers from around the world - address these questions in chapters that cover postal markets, pricing, efficiency and cost analysis, labor relations, and demand drivers. Examples are drawn from around the world. This timely book will be illuminating to practitioners and managers in the postal, express and delivery industry, as well as economists, regulators, competition lawyers, and marketers
    Description / Table of Contents: Information revolutions and modern postal service / James I. Campbell Jr -- Approaches to the USO under entry / Michael A. Crew and Paul R. Kleindorfer -- Partitioning the mailstream : analysis of an innovative approach to USO / Leon A. Pintsov, Andrei Obrea and Theresa Biasi -- From the size of the box to the costs of universal service obligation : a cross country comparison / Franois Boldron, Denis Joram, Lise Martin and Bernard Roy -- A welfare analysis of price controls with end-to-end mail and access services / Philippe de Donder, Helmuth Cremer, Paul Dudley nad Frank Rodriquez -- Dynamics of downstream entry in postal markets / Axel Gautier -- Economies of scale, density and scope in Swiss Post's mail delivery / Mehdi Farsi, Massimo Filippini and Urs Trinkner -- Measuring scale and scope economies with a structural model of postal delivery / Michael D. Bradley, Jeff Colvin, and Mary K. Perkins -- Efficient work-sharing discounts with mail heterogeneity / John C. Panzar -- Nonlinear pricing and worksharing in the postal market / Etienne Billette de Villemeur, Helmuth Cremer, François Boldron and Bernard Roy -- Efficiency analysis of delivery offices in the postal sector using stochastic frontier and data envelopment analyses / Alan Horncastle, David Jevons, Paul Dudley and Emmanuel Thanassoulis -- Economic analysis of the efficiency of Royal Mail units and the implications for regulatory policy / Richard Moriarty, Sophie Yorke, Greg Harman, John Cubbin, Meloria Meschi and Paul Smith -- From theory to practice : vertical relations in the French postal market / Xavier Ambrosini and Olaf Klargaard -- Postal deregulation and its impact on postal workers : a Canadian union perspective / Geoff Bickerton -- First steps towards new postal economics models for developing countries : learning from the Latin American experience / José; Ansón, Rudy Cuadra, Altamir Linhares, Guillermo Ronderos and Joélle Toledano -- The postal technology market and effects on purchasing strategy / William J. Dowling, Rpbert J. Curry, Robert A. F. Reisner and Bill Worth -- Economics of the U.S. postal service alternate access retail channels / Janet L. Webster, Dennis E. Stoker, Saadia Bukhari, Stephen Deering and Andrea M. Otis -- USO public financing at the crossroad between the "Monti package" and the forthcoming reform of the postal directive / Alessandra Fratini and Fabio Filpo -- Scenarios of mail receipt patterns across generations / Luis Jimenez, Anna Owsiany and Chrystal Szeto -- Microanalyses of mail demand drivers for large business customers / Peter Koppe and Christian Bosch -- Measuring the impact of direct mail on the brand / Joanne McNeish -- Consumer preferences and last mile pricing in the postal sector / Beat Friedli, Christian Jaag, Daniel Kráshenbúhl, Ole Bach Nielsen, Sóren-Michael Pihl and Urs Trinkner -- Microeconomic demand modelling for price elasticities / Frédérique Féve, Jean-Pierre Florens and Sophie Richard -- U.S. postal services as composite goods with hedonic properties / Lawrence Fenster, Diane Monaco, Edward S. Pearsall, Charles Robinson and Spyros Xenakis.
    Note: "Compendium of original essays ... selected from papers presented at the ... 14th Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics, May 31-June 3, 2006"--CIP data view , Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 12
    ISBN: 9781781956366
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 250 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Growth and cohesion in the European Union
    DDC: 337.1/42
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    Keywords: European Union ; European Union ; 1955-2005 ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Geldpolitik ; Finanzpolitik ; Arbeitsmarktpolitik ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; EU-Staaten ; Europäischer Stabilitätsmechanismus ; Monetary policy ; Monetary policy European Union countries ; Macroeconomics ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; Europäische Union Stabilitätspakt ; Fiskalpolitik ; Geldpolitik ; Europäische Union ; Arbeitsmarktpolitik ; Stabilität ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Finanzpolitik ; Wirtschaftswachstum
    Abstract: This book is a critical review of current fiscal and monetary policy in Europe and presents results of both empirical research and a discussion of the theoretical framework behind the policy of the European Central Bank and the Stability and Growth Pact. Macroeconomic policy is often hotly debated within the EU. However, the majority of policy discussions have started from a shared view of how the economy works. This shared neo-classical view is also known as the 'Brussels-Frankfurt consensus'. According to that consensus, European labour markets are too rigid in comparison to the US labour market. Hence, the prevalent view is that the European unemployment problem can be solved by increasing incentives; improving the returns on schooling and redefining the role and the necessity of labour market institutions. In this volume the authors argue that it is not at all clear which institutions cause labour market rigidities and to what extent. They note that the problem of unemployment requires a much broader set of solutions, including active labour market policies, policies concerning schooling and the development of skills. Growth and Cohesion in the European Union also highlights that these microeconomic policies will not in themselves provide the solution to what is essentially a macroeconomic problem. First and foremost the role of aggregate demand in the determination of unemployment has to be placed at the forefront of the debate. The extensive discussion of a broad variety of topics in the field of macroeconomic policy will ensure this book finds a welcome readership amongst researchers and academics of European studies and macroeconomics. Policy advisors will also find much to engage them as the book provides a critical view on the Brussels-Frankfurt consensus, currently so dominant amongst European policymakers
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction -- Part I: Monetary policy, fiscal policy and the stability and growth pact -- 1. The brussels-frankfurt consensus: An answer to the wrong question / William Mitchell and Joan Muysken -- 2. Whither stability pact? An assessment of reform proposals / Paola Monperrus-Veroni and Francesco Saraceno -- 3. Alternatives for the policy framework of the euro / Philip Arestis and Malcolm Sawyer -- 4. What drives ecb monetary policy? / Clemens J.M. Kool -- 5. Interest rates, debt, counter-cyclical policy and monetary sovereignty / Jan Kregel -- Part II: Labour markets and labour market policies -- 6. Institutions and the labour market: Examining the benefits / Tom van Veen -- 7. Institutions and unemployment in oecd countries: A panel data analysis / Lucio Baccaro and Diego Rei -- 8. The institutional determinants of labour market performance: Comparing the anglo-saxon model and a European-style alternative / Henri de Groot, Richard Nahuis and Paul Tang -- 9. Enhancing productivity: Social protection as investment policy / Chris de Neubourg and Julie Castonguay -- 10. Labour market adjustments and macroeconomic performance / Anna Batyra and Henri Sneessens -- Index.
    Note: "Centre of Full Employment and Equity." , Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 13
    ISBN: 9781781959152
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 241 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Advances in Chinese economic studies
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Wu, Yanrui, 1964 - Economic growth, transition, and globalization in China
    DDC: 338.951
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    Keywords: 1976-2030 ; Globalisierung ; Entwicklung ; Wirtschaftslage ; Wirtschaftsreform ; Politische Reform ; Wirtschaftsprognose ; China ; Globalization Congresses Economic aspects ; China Congresses Economic conditions 1976-2000 ; China Congresses Economic conditions 2000- ; Konferenzschrift ; China ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Wirtschaftsreform ; Globalisierung
    Abstract: This book addresses a number of important topics and issues associated with China's economic transition, growth and global integration. The chapters, by a distinguished group of scholars, provide a timely assessment of recent developments in the Chinese economy. The authors employ contemporary economic theory and the latest statistics to analyze the sources and spillover effects of China's growth, to investigate the relationship between growth and business cycle, and to shed light on China's growth prospects in the coming decade. In the context of growth, transition and globalization, the chapters also cover issues such as labour economics, urban efficiency, banking and macroeconomic management. Economic Growth, Transition and Globalization in China is a highly focused and unique work of direct policy relevance and is aimed at an international audience. It is an invaluable combination of rigorous theoretical work and empirical material. This timely book should be an important reference for researchers and students of Asian studies, and the Chinese economy, in particular. It will also appeal to business analysts
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Introduction / Yanrui Wu -- Part I: Economic growth and outlook -- 2. Sources of growth / Nazrul Islam, Erbiao Dai and Hiroshi Sakamoto -- 3. Inter-regional output spillovers / Nicolaas Groenewold, Guoping Lee and Anping Chen -- 4. Business cycle and growth / Yanrui Wu -- 5. Growth prospect during 2005-2020 / Shantong Li, Yongzhi Hou, Yunzhong Liu and Jianwu He -- Part II: Urban economy, migration and labour market -- 6. Performance of city economies / Yuk-shing Cheng and Sung-ko Li -- 7. Rural migrants and public security / Ingrid Nielsen and Russell Smyth -- 8. Job-matching efficiency / Sheng Yu -- Part III: Banking, exchange rates and globalization -- 9. Banking reform and macroeconomic management / Michael Thorpe -- 10. The exchange rate debate / James Laurenceson and Fengming Qin -- 11. Globalization and economic development / Abu Siddique -- Index.
    Note: Selected papers from the International Conference on "Transition, Growth, and Globalization in China," held July 7-8, 2005, in Perth, W.A , Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 14
    ISBN: 9781781958704
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (368 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Flexible working and organisational change
    DDC: 331.25/72/094
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    Keywords: Arbeitszeitgestaltung ; Familie ; Arbeitsbedingungen ; Europa ; Work and family Congresses ; Organizational change Congresses ; Sexual division of labor Congresses ; Hours of labor Congresses ; Part-time employment Congresses ; Telecommuting Congresses ; Quality of work life Congresses ; Konferenzschrift ; Bibliografie ; Arbeitsflexibilisierung ; Organisationswandel
    Abstract: Organisations and the nature of work have undergone fundamental changes in recent decades. At the same time, the traditional family pattern in Europe is being challenged by the growing number of dual-income families, and by the rise of women's employment. The central aim of this book is to consider to what extent changes in organisations and in the nature of jobs are compatible with the need, increasingly expressed by employees, for greater integration between work and family life. The book questions what sort of dilemmas modern and future employees face, in terms of shaping their careers and organising their lives at home. The authors formulate answers to these problematic questions by shedding light on relevant developments in the European labour markets, the European workplaces, in (flexible) working patterns, changing preferences for working hours and in gender relations at work. With a focus on future developments, this book will be of interest to labour market researchers and social policymakers in Europe, and also students in the social sciences, management (HRM) and social policy
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Part I: Change in a European context -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Work and family life in Europe: Employment patterns of working parents across welfare states -- 3. Organisational change, gender and integration of work and private life -- 4. New working arrangements and organisational change in the Netherlands -- 5. Occupational sex segregation and societal change -- Part II: Flexible working -- 6. Gender equality and the work-life balance: Policies and practices in the new economy -- 7. Flexibillisation, deregulation and working time: A gendered question: Evidence from Spain -- 8. Long-term effects of flexible work -- Part III: Working time, leave facilities and teleworking -- 9. Employers' and employees' preferences on working time in Finland -- 10. Do dutch employees want to work more or fewer hours than they actually do? -- 11. Internal and external career aspirations of men and women within their organisations -- 12. Assessing the use of parental leave by fathers: Towards a conceptual framework -- 13. It and telework -- Part IV: The integration of work and personal life -- 14. Looking backwards to go forwards: The integration of paid work and personal life -- 15. Flexible work and organisational change from a European perspective: Challenges for future research -- Index.
    Note: Revised papers from an international conference organized in June 2002 and held in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, to discuss the outcomes of the Netherlands' Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) funded research programme, "New organisational structures and workers of the future." , Includes index , Includes bibliographical references
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  • 15
    ISBN: 9781035305186
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 648 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Agricultural policy reform and the WTO
    DDC: 338.1/81
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    Keywords: World Trade Organization Congresses ; Agrarreform ; WTO-Recht ; Agraraußenhandel ; Außenwirtschaftspolitik ; Welt ; Agriculture and state Congresses ; Produce trade Congresses ; Agriculture and state Congresses ; Produce trade Congresses ; Konferenzschrift ; Übereinkommen zur Errichtung der Welthandelsorganisation 1994 April 15 ; World Trade Organization ; Agrarhandel ; Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations ; Agrarpolitik
    Abstract: Agricultural Policy Reform and the WTO provides insights into the effects of the Uruguay Round WTO agreement on agricultural policy and global markets, and considers what is at stake in the Doha Development Agenda Round. The contributors to the book deal with a broad range of topics, including the evolution of domestic and trade policies in the last ten years across developed and developing countries and proposals made in the agricultural negotiation regarding market access, export subsidies and domestic support; new issues emergent in agricultural trade negotiations are also explored, including: * interaction between national regulatory systems and the deepening integration of the international trade regime * intellectual property rights protection * food safety * quality regulations * antidumping trade protection. Finally, the future of international trade relations is discussed, in particular the implications of enforcing domestic regulations to comply with international rules. This rich collection of research and analysis will be invaluable to researchers, academics and policymakers with an interest in agricultural policy analysis and international economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Agricultural policy reform: Past present and future -- Part I: Agriculture and agricultural policy changes ten years after the uruguay round -- Part II: The three pillars of the WTO negotiations on agriculture -- Part III: Agricultural trade relations, WTO negotiations on agriculture and the developing world -- Part IV: The WTO and the future of international trade relations -- Index.
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  • 16
    ISBN: 9781782542001
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 300 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Human capital, trade, and public policy in rapidly growing economies
    DDC: 330.95
    Keywords: Humankapital ; Internationale Wirtschaft ; Produktivität ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Theorie ; Ostasien ; Human capital Congresses ; East Asia Congresses Economic conditions ; East Asia Congresses Commerce ; East Asia Congresses Foreign economic relations ; East Asia Congresses Economic policy ; Konferenzschrift ; Ostasien ; Wirtschaftswachstum
    Abstract: Human Capital, Trade and Public Policy in Rapidly Growing Economies argues that only two centuries ago, no society had ever enjoyed sustained growth in living standards. The contributors to this book aim to discover why the world today exhibits a predilection for perpetual self-improvement. In particular, the book focuses on the forces underlying long-lasting growth in East Asia's Newly Industrialized Countries (NICs). Drawing from the experiences of Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan, it questions whether public policy can contribute to removing barriers towards accumulation of wealth, and if so, what development policy should be put in place to remedy the existing distortions or market failure problems. Theoretical and empirical analyses are also used to broach other important issues, such as: * Why do some economies experience growth while others decline? * What are the major determinants of long-term growth and development? * Is human capital the main driving force? * Does international trade play a crucial role? This book will appeal to those with an interest in development and public policy
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Foreword -- 1. Introduction: A quick reference to growth theory -- Part I: Human capital -- 2. Market structure and innovation revisited: Endogenous productivity, training and market shares -- 3. Human capital formation and patterns of growth with multiple equilibria -- 4. On the relationship between fertility and public education in different stages of development -- 5. Productivity growth and catch-up in less-developed economies -- Part II: Trade -- 6. Total factor productivity and the catching-up process -- 7. Indeterminacy in a dynamic general equilibrium model of international trade -- 8. Evaluating the quantitative effects of import restrictions - an almost neoclassical benchmark -- 9. Innovation in a shrinking world -- Part III: Public policy -- 10. Long-run effects of financial policy in an endogenously growing economy -- 11. Credit rationing, public borrowing and endogenous growth -- 12. Government expenditure and social status in a two-sector model of endogenous growth -- 13. Economic growth and the environmental kuznets curve in Taiwan: A simultaneity model analysis -- Index.
    Note: A collection of original papers, the majority presented at the International Conference on Economic Growth held at the Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, in December 2000 , Examines the forces underlying economic growth in the East Asian newly industrialized countries of Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    ISBN: 9781035305049
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 296 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Developing an annuity market in Europe
    DDC: 368.3/7/0094
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    Keywords: Altersvorsorge ; Pensionskasse ; Lebensversicherung ; Finanzmarkt ; Soziale Sicherheit ; Europa ; Annuities ; Pensions ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; Europa ; Rentenfinanzierung ; Rentenmarkt ; Private Altersversorgung
    Abstract: On the premise that pension provision in Europe will dramatically change over the next few decades, this book concentrates on the funded component of pension wealth, and specifically on annuities - financial products that, on the basis of actuarial equivalence, allow the conversion of wealth into a lifelong stream of income. Developing an Annuity Market in Europe provides an analysis of how longevity and return risks are dealt with, besides considering key features from both household and insurance company perspectives. It takes account of the fact that annuity markets are expected to attract much interest in future years given the prospective cuts in public pension expenditure. In order to fill the gap between shrinking pensions and desired retirement consumption, the authors argue, annuities must be well regulated and supplied with financially attractive products. These conditions hardly exist today: thin markets and scant interest prevail, information is incomplete and imperfect, products show significant disparities. The contributors to this book explore the causes of present malfunctioning and examine the changes that may give annuities a new and vital function, which, along with greater competition and greater regulation may significantly alter the present scene of pension finance. Finally, the book offers an overview of regulatory issues including transparency, prudential provisions, appropriate levels of guarantees, and administrative costs. This important and timely book will be invaluable to anyone interested in annuities, from practitioners through to students, researchers and academics concerned in financial or public economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Annuities for an aging world -- 3. Issues in the regulation of annuities markets -- 4. Annuity risk: Volatility and inflation exposure in payments from immediate life annuities -- 5. Pension annuitization and social security claiming -- 6. Longevity risk in living benefits -- 7. Guaranteed annuity conversion options and their valuation -- 8. The behavior of UK annuity prices from 1972 to 2002 -- 9. Private annuities and public pensions in Germany -- 10. Mandated annuities in Switzerland -- 11. The market for annuities in Italy: Reality or chimera? -- Index.
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  • 18
    ISBN: 9781781956335
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (352 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Firms' investment and finance decisions
    DDC: 332.63
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    Keywords: Investition ; Unternehmensfinanzierung ; Unternehmen ; Betriebliche Investitionstheorie ; Betriebliche Finanzwirtschaft ; Theorie ; Welt ; Belgien ; Capital investments Congresses ; Corporations Congresses Finance ; Konferenzschrift ; Deutschland ; Industrie ; Investition
    Abstract: This book provides coherent theoretical and empirical analysis of firms' investment and financing decisions. It assesses the role of uncertainty, financial imperfections, corporate governance and taxation. Evidence is obtained using several unique and high quality microeconomic data-sets, which explore features seldom addressed. Overall, the empirical results confirm theoretical precedents. Some firms are indeed financially constrained, for fixed investment as well as for R&D projects. The 'free cash-flow' hypothesis holds, that is managers divert excess funds away for their own interests, but less so in closely controlled companies. In accordance with the real option theory, the results suggest that uncertainty leads firms to adopt a 'wait and see' strategy which eventually reduces investment, especially for irreversible investment. Corporate governance features are shown to affect managers, discipline and companies' restructuring plans. Finally, different tax reforms are evaluated, and an alternative tax structure that would stimulate growth is proposed. Scholars, including those with an interest in microeconomics and econometrics, and staff within central banks and national and international organisations will also find the book of interest, as will policymakers and decision-makers concerned with the role of financing, corporate governance and taxation on firm's decisions
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Foreword by guy quaden -- Introduction -- 1. Lifting the burden: Fundamental tax reform and us economic growth -- 2. Structural modelling of financial constraints on investment: Where do we stand? -- 3. Capital market imperfections and investment: Evidence from belgian panel data -- 4. Investment, r&d and liquidity constraints: A corporate governance approach to the belgian evidence -- 5. Financing and investment interdependencies in unquoted belgian companies: The role of venture capital -- 6. Financing constraints, fixed capital and r&d investment decisions of belgian firms -- 7. Real options and investment under uncertainty: What do we know? -- 8. Development path and capital structure of belgian biotechnology firms -- 9. Investment, uncertainty and irreversibility: Evidence from belgian accounting data -- 10. The impact of uncertainty on investment plans: A survey data approach -- 11. Governance as a source of managerial discipline -- 12. Capital structure, firm liquidity and growth -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 247 pages) , illustrations
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    Keywords: Wirtschaftspolitik ; Außenwirtschaftspolitik ; Globalisierung ; Südkorea ; Globalization Congresses Economic aspects ; Korea (South) Congresses Economic policy 1960-1988 ; Korea (South) Congresses Economic conditions 1960-1988 ; Korea (South) Congresses Foreign economic relations ; Konferenzschrift ; Bibliografie ; Südkorea ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Globalisierung ; Außenwirtschaftspolitik
    Abstract: This book presents Korea's economic strategy to meet the emerging challenges, as it recovers from the 1997 financial crisis and moves on into the globalization and information era. For important policy areas, the authors evaluate existing policies, and offer proposals for new strategic direction that can achieve sustainable and equitable economic growth for Korea. A considerable majority of the contributing authors are involved in formulating economic strategy as policy advisors to the Korean government, and they bring to their chapters extensive experience and insights regarding Korean government policies that are rarely available to readers in such a comprehensive form. The book therefore offers a timely, practical, and unique analysis of all aspects of the Korean economy. Academics, policy practitioners, and others with interests in the Korean economy, Asian economies, development studies, and a broad sweep of other issues concerning structural reform will find in this volume a gold mine of detail and opinion
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Introduction: Korea's response to globalization -- Part I: Korean geopolitical economy in the 21st century -- Part II: Strategy for international trade -- Part III: Strategy for business, finance and investment -- Part IV: Strategy for primary industries -- Part V: Strategy for labor relations and social welfare -- Part VI: Strategy for an information- and knowledge-based economy -- Index.
    Note: "A collection of papers that were presented originally at the Third Biennial Conference of the Australian Centre for Korean Studies held at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia, 20-21 September 2001"--p. Ack , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    ISBN: 9781781957295
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 456 pages) , illustrations
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    Keywords: Internationale Wirtschaft ; Auslandsinvestition ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Geldpolitik ; Japan ; Monetary policy Congresses ; Japan ; Japan Wettbewerbspolitik ; Geldpolitik/Kreditpolitik ; Wirtschaftsunternehmen ; Unternehmenspolitik ; Politische Reformen ; Management (funktional) ; Unternehmensorganisation ; Außenhandel ; Direktinvestition ; Unternehmensfinanzierung ; Beschäftigung ; Wirtschaftslage ; Japan Congresses Commercial policy ; Japan Congresses Foreign economic relations ; Japan Economic policy 1989- ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Japan ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wirtschaft ; Währungspolitik ; Wirtschaftsbeziehungen ; Handelspolitik
    Abstract: The contributors to this book, from the US and Japan, explore the main issues involved in the international trade, foreign direct investment, and macro/financial relations of the United States and Japan and provide guidance to policymakers for measures to help overcome Japan's economic stagnation since the early 1990s. The book is divided into three parts. Part I contains an empirical analysis of trade diversion under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), a theoretical analysis of time in determining the structure and effects of trade with an application to Japan, and an empirical analysis of Japan's changing import behavior. Part II is focused on foreign direct investment (FDI), trade, and the behavior and structure of Japanese firms. Part III deals with macro/financial issues of current interest and importance in Japan. The analytical focus of the chapters is intended to enhance the understanding of the issues addressed and to provide some guidance to policymakers in the design of measures that will improve economic efficiency and welfare and help to overcome the economic stagnation that Japan has experienced in the past decade or more. Economists, political scientists and policymakers will find the analysis provided in this volume invaluable in understanding the Japanese economy and economic relations between Japan and the United States
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Introduction and overview -- Part I: Trade and related issues -- 2. Trade diversion under nafta -- 3. Time and trade: The role of time in determining the structure and effects of international trade, with an application to Japan -- 4. An analysis of Japan's changing import behavior -- Part II: Foreign direct investment, trade, and the behavior and structure of Japanese firms -- 5. Sources of variation in the productivity of Japanese manufacturers -- 6. Foreign direct investment in Japan: Empirical analysis based on the establishment and enterprise census -- 7. Exports and foreign direct investment accelerate corporate reforms: Evidence from Japanese micro data -- Part III: Macro/financial issues -- 8. Prospective Japanese economic recovery: Perspectives from European economic recovery in the 1930s -- 9. Japan's lost decade and weaknesses in its corporate governance structure -- 10. Zero-interest-rate policy, the forward-rate curve, and policy-duration effect -- 11. Demographic changes and their implications for Japanese household savings -- 12. Restoring full employment in Japan: Domestic and international policy considerations -- Index.
    Note: "This volume contains the papers and comments that were prepared in connection with a conference, 'Analytical issues in the trade, foreign direct investment, and macro/financial relations of the United States and Japan,' which was held at Keio University in Tokyo on May 18-19, 2001"--Pref , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 241 pages) , illustrations, maps
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    Keywords: Industrieregion ; Kommunale Entwicklung ; Toskana ; Industrial districts ; Industrial policy ; Industrial organization ; Economic development ; Industrial districts Italy ; Tuscany ; Industrial policy Italy ; Industrial organization Italy ; Economic development ; Italien ; Toskana ; Industrie ; Klein- und Mittelbetrieb ; Regionale Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Industrieregion ; Regionalwirtschaft
    Abstract: From Industrial Districts to Local Development introduces a set of papers representing the main contribution of the 'Florence school' to the recent literature on industrial districts. The authors illustrate that the revitalisation of the concept of industrial districts, returning to Alfred Marshall's nineteenth-century writings, is rooted in an unconventional interpretation of the economic development of Tuscany after the Second World War. Models of industrial organisation and empirical investigation of industrial tendencies are featured, and Alfred Marshall's concepts of the advantages of the geographical agglomeration of specialised small firms in industrial districts are reintroduced. The authors extend the analysis of purely economic effects of agglomeration, including social, cultural and institutional foundations of local development, and current case studies are presented. This book will appeal to scholars, lecturers and researchers focusing on industrial economics, development economics and economic geography. Its references to Italian political experiences will also be of interest to policymakers in both developed and developing countries
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Foreword / by Werner Sengenberger -- Introduction: An itinerary -- Part I: The development of tuscany: Industrial districts -- 1. Industrial districts in the development of tuscany -- 2. The 'tuscan model' and recent trends -- 3. The past in the present: Prato's people -- Part II: Inside the district: Clues for theoreticians -- 4. The governance of transactions in the industrial district: The 'commodity market' -- 5. The incentives to decentralised creativity in local systems of small firms -- 6. Trust, interlinking transactions and credit in the industrial district -- 7. On entrepreneurship, region and the constitution of scale and scope economies -- Part III: Towards local development -- 8. Local development in the experience of Italian industrial districts -- 9. Local governance and industrial districts' competitive advantage -- 10. The multiple paths of local development -- 11. Towards a geographical redefinition of the form of the state -- Index.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 295 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Intelligent management in the knowledge economy
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    Abstract: The knowledge economy is a notion that has been used, since the end of the last decade, to describe a new economic order perceived by scholars and practitioners. The authors argue that this order, triggered by new information and communication technologies, has resulted in a different set of challenges for effective management of the contemporary firm. Knowledge will play an important role in managing these challenges, with the onus being on new hardware and software as much as how businesses can be organised with regard to relationships with customers and suppliers. This book shows how 'intelligent management will be key to how internal operations can be organised in order to take advantage of opportunities brought about by new technologies. This change in management is discussed throughout the book from a wide array of perspectives ranging from contextual and philosophical aspects, through tools and methods to case studies concerning the organization of business, its management and application in the knowledge economy. Intelligent Management in the Knowledge Economy will be of great interest to academics and researchers of management - knowledge management in particular - ICT and organisational studies. Business practitioners will also find much to engage them within this book
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface / by Christian Tangkjær -- Intelligent management and knowledge: An Introduction -- Part I: Context and philosophy -- 1. Leaders for the knowledge economy -- 2. Presence and absence: An epistemological essay on knowledge management and technology -- 3. Elements of the dynamics of future organizations: A discourse on the imaginative and integrative deployment of information systems -- 4. Organizing the extended organization -- Part II: Tools and methods -- 5. Communities and activity systems in knowledge-intensive firms -- 6. The process warehouse: A data warehouse approach for business process management -- 7. Learning through online conversations: The case of online support systems -- 8. Knowledge reactivation mediated through knowledge carriers -- Part III: Management and applications -- 9. What is the business value of electronic commerce? How can it be optimized? -- 10. Global thinking or local commitment in multinational knowledge management and organizational learning -- 11. Management of artificial sellars: A metaphor for the automation of e-commerce -- 12. The bazaar model of organizing -- 13. Ict and the geography of innovative firms -- References -- Index.
    Note: Updated papers from an international conference held in 1999 , Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-283) and index
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    ISBN: 9781035304899
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxv, 246 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Competition and regulation in utility markets
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    Keywords: Versorgungswirtschaft ; Regulierung ; Deregulierung ; Wettbewerb ; Elektrizitätswirtschaft ; Gaswirtschaft ; Telekommunikation ; Großbritannien ; Electric utilities Congresses Deregulation ; Gas industry Congresses Deregulation ; Telecommunication Congresses Deregulation ; Competition Congresses ; Konferenzschrift ; Großbritannien ; Versorgungswirtschaft ; Energiewirtschaft ; Regulierung
    Abstract: This volume is the latest in an annual series, published in association with the Institute of Economic Affairs and the London Business School, which provides an up-to-date review of the state of utility regulation in Britain, with some relevant overseas comparisons. The book, edited and with an introduction by Colin Robinson, covers many of the major issues and significant developments in the field of regulation and competition policy. In each case, essays by expert contributors are followed by the views of the sector regulator. This volume will prove invaluable to practitioners, policymakers and lawyers involved in monopoly regulation, regulatory reform and deregulation
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction by colin robinson -- 1. Uk transport policy, 1997-2001 - stephen glaister, chairman's comments - tom winsor -- 2. Electricity: Regulatory developments around the world - stephen littlechild, chairman's comments - eileen marshall, cbe -- 3. Prospects for gas supply and demand and their implications with special reference to the UK - alexander g. Kemp and linda stephen, chairman's comments - callum mccarthy -- 4. The ingredients of effective competition policy - irwin m. Stelzer, chairman's comments - derek morris -- 5. Regulatory incentives and deregulation in telecommunications - leonard waverman, chairman's comments - david edmonds -- 6. An end to economic regulation? - robert w. Crandall, chairman's comments - penelope rowlatt -- 7. Mutualization and debt-only vehicles: Which way for rpi-x regulation? - david currie, chairman's comments - philip fletcher -- 8. International mergers: The view from a national authority - john vickers -- 9. Liberalizing postal services - john dodgson, chairman's comments - graham corbett -- Index.
    Note: Revised versions of papers and chairmens' comments from the eleventh annual series of Beesley Lectures on Regulation, held in the autumn of 2001 and jointly organized by the Institute of Economic Affairs and the London Business School , "In association with the Institute of Economic Affairs and the London Business School." , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    ISBN: 9781781957486
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (288 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Capital liberalization in transition countries
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    Keywords: Finanzmarktregulierung ; Systemtransformation ; Kapitalmobilität ; Kapitalbilanz ; Osteuropa ; Capital movements Congresses ; Capital movements Congresses ; Capital movements Congresses ; Capital movements ; Capital movements Europe, Eastern ; Capital movements Former Soviet republics ; Konferenzschrift ; Kapitalbewegung ; Kapitalverkehrsbilanz
    Abstract: This significant new book provides a succinct overview of the essential policy issues surrounding capital liberalization. The book compares the experiences of transition economies in Europe with those of advanced nations, allowing the reader to examine the changing international economic and financial environment within which transition countries have to liberalize. The book first deals with the critical issues concerning liberalization, including sequencing and financial market development. The authors move on to present an overview of the early liberalization experiences of advanced economies and East-Asian countries. This provides the context for a series of chapters reviewing liberalization progress in transition economies, in which international experts and senior officials analyze their own countries' experiences. The authors also emphasise the importance of financial market reform and the construction of a sound institutional framework if countries are to attract and productively use capital inflows. A stable financial system, whilst not infallible, is also crucial for minimizing the risk of financial crises of the type experienced by a number of countries during the 1980s and 1990s. The comprehensive scope of the subject matter and international contributions from a range of different perspectives will ensure this book is warmly received by academics and researchers with an interest in EU accession, transition economics and financial market reform. It will also serve as a useful guide to governments involved in capital liberalization in other parts of the world such as Latin America and Asia
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Capital account liberalization in the transition phase: An overview -- Part I: Policy issues and earlier experiences -- 2. Advanced country experiences with capital account liberalization -- 3. Sequencing capital account liberalization and financial sector stability -- 4. Managing capital account liberalization: Indonesia, Malaysia, Korea and Thailand -- 5. Recent codes-based liberalization in the oecd -- 6. Capital account liberalization and financial sector development in transition countries -- Part II: Transition country experiences -- 7. Capital account liberalization in ukraine -- 8. Capital account liberalization experiences in armenia -- 9. Capital flows and capital account liberalization in croatia -- 10. The liberalization of the capital account in Hungary: Experiences and lessons -- 11. Capital account liberalization and financial market reform in the republic of moldova -- 12. Capital account liberalization in Poland -- References -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781035305018
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 195 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New horizons in institutional and evolutionary economics
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von The economics of knowledge sharing
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    Keywords: Neue Institutionenökonomik ; Innovation ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Wissensmanagement ; Institutional economics ; Knowledge management ; Institutional economics ; Knowledge management ; Konferenzschrift ; Wissensmanagement ; Institutionenökonomie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Institutionenökonomie ; Wissensmanagement
    Abstract: The Economics of Knowledge Sharing claims that useful economic knowledge is the most important foundation for the development of a sufficiently strong process of innovation. Within the framework of new institutional economics, the book looks at the institutional conditions required for the interactive sharing and dissemination of knowledge in the development of economies. It outlines in four distinct parts the complex societal process of human interaction by which knowledge is effectively generated and used. The book first considers knowledge sharing institutions, differentiating between types of interaction and types of actors. Secondly, it examines the economic role of knowledge and cognition, asking how and why human actors gather knowledge. It goes on to revisit historical questions of knowledge and embeds them within the contemporary debate, before finally reflecting on the significant relationship between technology and knowledge sharing in the digital age. Opening up a new area of research encompassing the institutional framework of the innovation process, this pathbreaking volume will be of enormous interest to a wide-ranging audience including economists in the fields of theory, innovation research, new institutional economics, evolutionary economics, history of economic thought, and education policy. As knowledge sharing interactions are akin to other kinds of competition aside from economic, this book will also be warmly welcomed by social and political scientists specialising in a variety of related topics
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction -- Part I: Knowledge sharing institutions -- 2. The institutional economics of knowledge sharing: Basic issues -- 3. New institutional economics and knowledge sharing -- Part II: Knowledge and cognition -- 4. Motivation, learning, knowledge sharing and division of labour -- 5. Processes of knowledge sharing: From cognitive psychology to economics -- 6. The cognitive basis of institutions: An evolutionary aspect -- Part III: The knowledge issue in economics -- 7. Human capital, knowledge and knowledge sharing: A view from the history of economic thoughts -- 8. Knowledge, knowledge sharing and convention in keynes' thinking -- Part IV: The regulations for digital technology -- 9. The internet: Universal information infrastructure for the emerging knowledge society -- 10. Digitalization and regulation: The German case -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781781959923
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 433 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New thinking in political economy
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Ahrens, Joachim, 1963 - Governance and economic development
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    Keywords: Corporate Governance ; Neue Institutionenökonomik ; Industriepolitik ; Staatliche Einflussnahme ; Systemtransformation ; Entwicklungsländer ; Osteuropa ; Ostasien ; Corporate governance ; Corporate governance ; Corporate governance ; Industrial policy ; Industrial policy ; Industrial policy ; Post-communism ; Economic development ; Developing countries Economic conditions ; Europe, Eastern Economic conditions 1989- ; East Asia Economic conditions ; Entwicklungsländer ; Corporate Governance ; Osteuropa ; Governance ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Institutionenökonomie ; Entwicklungsländer ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Governance ; Politischer Wandel ; Institutionenökonomie ; Schwellenländer
    Abstract: The main theme of this study is the political economy of policy reform in less developed countries and post-socialist countries. Given the complexity of economic development and transition, Joachim Ahrens views failures in policy reform, poor public sector management, rent-seeking, corruption, and over-centralization as systematic, though not exclusive, instances of institutional failure. This interdisciplinary study looks for ways of constructing effective market-enhancing governance structures that provide appropriate incentive systems to cope with such failures. No blueprint is offered, but the book provides a conceptual governance framework that can be applied in a comparative way to analyze economic, political, and social obstacles to policy and institutional reform. The concept is not only used to analyze the politico-institutional foundation of policy reform in East Asia and Eastern Europe, but it also allows to elaborate country specific strategies to craft institutional safeguards that help overcome impediments to development and transition. This innovative book, which overcomes the conventional perspective of a government-market dichotomy, will be of interest to researchers, students, policymakers and all those concerned with the impact of the dialectic interaction between political and economic forces on economic development
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Introduction: Market, state, and economic development -- Part I: Policy reform, institutions, and economic performance -- 2. The washington consensus and its limits -- 3. From new political economy to new institutional economics -- 4. Institutional change and economic performance -- Part II: Governance: Theory and practice -- 5. Governance and economic performance: Conceptual considerations -- 6. Governance in practice: Evidence from less developed countries and economies in transition -- 7. Rethinking effective governance: Politico-institutional structures and economic development in comparative perspective -- Appendix -- References -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781782543701
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 318 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Studies of small and medium size enterprises in East Asia series v. 1
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    Keywords: KMU ; Globalisierung ; Ostasien ; Asiatisch-pazifischer Raum ; Finanzkrise ; Small business Congresses ; Globalization Congresses Economic aspects ; Financial crises Congresses ; Small business Congresses Finance ; Unternehmenskultur ; Klein- und Mittelbetrieb ; Globalisierung ; Regionalentwicklung ; Regionalplanung ; Wirtschaftskrise ; Währungspolitik ; Direktinvestition ; Technologietransfer ; Informationstechnik ; Kommunikationstechnik ; Electronic Commerce ; Beschäftigung ; Soziales Netzwerk ; Asien ; Konferenzschrift ; Ostasien ; Internationalisierung ; Klein- und Mittelbetrieb
    Abstract: The 1997 financial and economic crisis in East Asia provided the catalyst for an important reappraisal of the Small and Medium sized Enterprise (SME) sector across the region. In this timely book, a distinguished group of contributors discusses the role of SMEs in the globalisation of the East Asian economies, and assess how the financial crisis has impacted on them. They focus on a number of key aspects of SMEs in the region, including: * financing issues * the role of entrepreneurship * the diffusion of technology in the region * Chinese small businesses * SME requirements for information technology * the opportunities afforded by electronic commerce * regional labour markets and their impact on SMEs. Globalisation and SMEs in East Asia will appeal to academics and researchers of Asian economies and studies, globalisation and those interested in industrial organisation
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1. The Study of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in East Asia / Charles Harvie and Boon-Chye Lee -- 2. The Asian Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Regional SMEs / Charles Harvie -- 3. SMEs in the Globalised Developing Economies: Some Asia-Pacific Examples / Henry Wan, Jr. -- 4. SMEs in Southeast Asia: Issues and Constraints in the Pre- and Post-Crisis Environments / Henry Sandee -- 5. Trade Finance for East Asian SMEs and the Asian Financial Crisis / Donald G. Ross -- 6. Financing Issues: SME IPOs in China and Australia / Gurmeet S. Bhabra, John G. Powell, Jing Shi and Tian Ze -- 7. Small and Medium Enterprises: Evaluating Foreign Direct Investments in the Presence of Political Risk / Boon-Chye Lee and John G. Powell -- 8. The Role of SMEs in the Diffusion of Technology among East Asian Economies / Tim Turpin -- 9. Requirements for SME Information Technology / Craig Van Slyke, Christopher Conca and Kenneth Trimmer -- 10. Electronic Commerce and Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in East Asia / Boon-Chye Lee -- 11. SMEs and Regional Labour Markets: Major Trends Since 1997 / Peter van Diermen -- 12. From Miracle to Crisis and Beyond: The Role of Entrepreneurship and SMEs in Asia / Hock-Beng Cheah -- 13. Small Chinese Businesses after the Asian Crisis: Surviving and Reviving / Constance Lever-Tracy and David Ip -- 14. Connections, Culture and Context: Business Relationships and Networks in the Asia-Pacific Region / Liz Fulop and David Richards -- 15. Franchising: An Interdependent Alternative to Independent SMEs / Leo Paul Dana, Hamid Etemad and Richard W Wright.
    Note: Papers presented at an international conference, organized by the International Business Research Institute of the University of Wollongong, Australia, held in Wollongong on June 16-17, 2000 , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    ISBN: 9781782543916
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    Series Statement: New horizons in environmental economics
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    Keywords: Landwirtschaft ; Umweltschutz ; Agrargenossenschaft ; Agrarpolitik ; Institutioneller Wandel ; EU-Agrarpolitik ; Europa ; Agriculture Congresses Environmental aspects ; Agricultural ecology Congresses ; Agriculture and state Congresses ; Sustainable development Congresses ; Mitgliedsstaaten ; Umwelt ; Ökologie ; Internationaler Umweltschutz ; Internationale Kooperation ; Umweltschutz ; Maßnahme ; Ressourcenmanagement ; Völkerrechtlicher Vertrag ; Effektivität ; Beispiel ; Europäische Union EU-/EG-Länder ; Umwelt/Ökologie ; Landwirtschaft ; Internationaler Umweltschutz ; Internationale umweltpolitische Zusammenarbeit ; Umweltschutzmaßnahmen ; Ressourcenschutz ; Ressourcenmanagement ; Internationales Umweltschutzabkommen ; Effizienz/Effektivität ; Beispielhafte Fälle ; European Union EU-/EC countries ; Environment/ecology ; Agriculture ; International environmental protection ; International environment policy cooperation ; Environmental protection measures ; Resource protection ; Natural resources management ; International environmental agreements ; Efficiency/Efficacy ; Exemplary cases ; Landwirtschaftliche Nutzfläche Boden (Produktionsfaktor) ; Natur ; Wasser ; Wasserressourcen ; Pestizide ; Problemlösungskapazität internationaler Akteure ; Agricultural areas Land (factor of production) ; Nature ; Water ; Water resources ; Pesticides ; Problem solving capacity of international actors ; Konferenzschrift ; Europäische Union ; Landwirtschaft ; Umweltpolitik ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Kooperation
    Abstract: Although the history of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is dominated by a process of centralisation, growing pressures to integrate agri-environmental problems into the CAP have revealed the need to embrace decentralised approaches in an efficient federal structure. Indeed, in recent years it has become increasingly evident that the agricultural sector must undergo fundamental changes in order to enter an era of sustainable development. The authors do not believe that this will be an easy process, not only because agricultural policies in Europe are dominated by specific interest groups, but primarily because integrating environmental aspects into the CAP requires difficult institutional change at different levels. Centralised decision making at the EU level has characterised recent agricultural policy and the authors argue that centralised and hierarchical governance structures may fail to produce adequate solutions if they are not linked to regional and more diverse institutional arrangements. They demonstrate how these new institutional arrangements should be designed and how this change can be organised. In particular, they highlight the need for cooperation, and the participation of farmers, as a strategy to cope with agri-environmental issues and resource management problems. Addressing the value of co-operative strategies to achieve sustainable development and cope with agri-environmental problems, this book will be of great interest to agricultural economists and those with an interest in ecological reforms of agricultural policies. It will also be particularly relevant to policymakers within EU nations, as well as policymakers within the countries of Eastern and Central Europe who will be amongst the first to be admitted to the EU in the next wave of expansion
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Part I: Theoretical approaches and institutional foundations of environmental co-operation -- Part II: Designing and managing environmental co-operatives: The dutch experience -- Part III: Governance structures and learning processes for changing agricultural practices -- Part IV: Implementation of agri-environmental policies as an issue of collective action -- Part V: The role of co-operative arrangements in implementing environmental policies -- Part VI: Knowledge systems, stakeholders' interests and conflict resolution in protected areas -- Part VII: Promoting environmental protection by co-operative marketing of food products -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781035304172
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 225 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Neumann, Manfred, 1933 - 2016 Competition policy
    DDC: 338.6/048
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    Keywords: Wettbewerbspolitik ; Industrieökonomik ; Theorie ; Welt ; Competition ; Competition, International ; Competition Government policy ; Industrial policy ; Competition History ; Business cycles ; Wettbewerbspolitik ; Internationaler Wettbewerb ; Wettbewerbspolitik
    Abstract: Given the increase in large scale mergers throughout the world, this book addresses the growing problem of restricted competition through collusion and the perennial debate surrounding the use of government subsidies for industries to further national interests. The aims of the book are threefold; firstly, to elucidate the antecedents of competition policy in the US and Europe and to demonstrate how far a convergence of principles has developed. Secondly, to outline the theory of industrial organisation as a major tool to devise an appropriate policy, and thirdly, to discuss the practice of competition policy in the US, individual European countries and the EC as a whole, in terms of collusion, mergers and vertical restraints. Manfred Neumann comprehensively explores the economic arguments that justify the need for competition policy. He considers the historical development of competition policy and the relationship between competition policy and the objectives of governmental policy as a whole. In conclusion, he argues that competition policy should be regarded as a constituent part of economic and social policy. This enlightening and comprehensive book will be of great value to students, researchers and practitioners of law, corporate strategy and industrial and political economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Aims and scope of competition policy -- 2. Industrial economics as the foundation of competition policy -- 3. Containing restraints of competition -- 4. The social framework and competition policy -- References -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-210) and index
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    ISBN: 9781035304493
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 447 pages)
    Series Statement: Academia studies in Asian economies
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Economic analysis of substance use and abuse
    DDC: 338.4/336229
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    Keywords: Drogenkonsum ; Rauchen ; Alkoholkonsum ; Sucht ; USA ; Welt ; Substance abuse Economic aspects ; Substance abuse Cross-cultural studies Economic aspects ; Drug abuse Economic aspects ; Alcoholism Economic aspects ; Drug abuse Cross-cultural studies Economic aspects ; Alcoholism Cross-cultural studies Economic aspects ; Substance abuse Economic aspects ; Substance abuse Economic aspects ; United States ; Substance abuse Economic aspects ; Cross-cultural studies ; Drug abuse Economic aspects ; United States ; Alcoholism Economic aspects ; United States ; Drug abuse Economic aspects ; Cross-cultural studies ; Alcoholism Economic aspects ; Cross-cultural studies ; Substance abuse Economic aspects ; Developing countries ; Konferenzschrift ; Sucht ; Soziale Kosten ; Wirtschaftliche Betrachtungsweise
    Abstract: Currently developed countries pay much more attention to harmfully addictive substances than developing countries. However, the experience of developed countries is very relevant to the developing world since substance abuse is likely to impose a continually increasing burden of disease in this region in the near future. This book extends the frontiers of research on the economics of substance use and abuse in a variety of extremely significant ways. It focuses on the determinants and consequences of the consumption of cigarettes, alcohol, betel quid, and illicit drugs in the United States, Great Britain and Taiwan. The authors use a variety of empirical techniques to examine the roles of price, advertising, risk perception, time preference and forward-looking behaviour in consumption decisions and the effects of these decisions on labour market outcomes, unintended pregnancies and criminal violence. Economic Analysis of Substance Use and Abuse will be required reading for scholars of economic development and health economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Part I: Rational addiction -- Part II: Risk perception and time preference -- Part III: Costs of substance use -- Part IV: Criminal violence and substance use -- Part V: Demand analysis -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781781950227
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 247 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Evolution and path dependence in economic ideas
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    Keywords: Wirtschaftswissenschaft ; Ökonomische Ideengeschichte ; Evolutionsökonomik ; Theorie ; Evolutionary economics Congresses History ; Evolutionary economics History ; Congresses ; Konferenzschrift ; Wirtschaftstheorie ; Hysterese ; Evolutorische Wirtschaft ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Since the 1980s there has been a renewed interest in attempts to introduce a sense of history into economic literature. In this book, the authors argue that it is not possible to explain a state of the world without first analysing the processes that lead to that state. The contributions collected in this volume share a critical stance towards the timelessness and a historical theorizing of mainstream economics. Past states in the development of an economic process set the range of possibilities for future development and can be used to construct theories based on the irreversibility of economic time. Many of these notable contributors argue that the study of the history of economic thought is important in two ways. Firstly, because it provides important insights into the ways that economists of the past attempted to address the problems of history and secondly, because it helps us to understand the present state of economics as being itself the outcome of a path dependent process. Evolutionary economists, economic theorists and historians, as well as economists interested in the evolution of economic and other social institutions, will find this challenging collection of papers essential reading
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Evolution and path dependence in economic ideas: Past and present -- 2. Path dependence, its crisis, and the quest for 'historical economics' -- 3. The meaning of market: Comparing austrian and institutional economics -- 4. Schumpeter and the pendulum: How evolution was whipped out in the construction of canonical economics -- 5. Veblen and commons on private property: An institutionalist discussion around a capitalist foundation -- 6. Competition, competitive selection and economic evolution -- 7. Evolutionary themes in the austrian tradition: Menger, wieser and schumpeter on institutions and rationality -- 8. Reading edith penrose's the theory of the growth of the firm forty years on (1959-1999) -- 9. Economic analysis of human effort in organizations: A historical and critical perspective -- 10. Path dependence in scientific evolution -- 11. Reflections on the progress of heterodox economics -- Index.
    Note: An international conference of the European Association of Evolutionary Political Economy , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    ISBN: 9781782542643
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 257 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Asia-Pacific issues in international business
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    Keywords: 30.09.1999 ; Multinationales Unternehmen ; Auslandsinvestition ; Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen ; Asiatisch-pazifischer Raum ; Asien ; Australien ; Neuseeland ; Pazifischer Raum ; Ostasien Südostasien ; Australien ; Neuseeland ; Pazifischer Raum ; Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen ; Außenwirtschaft ; Export ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Direktinvestition ; Dänemark ; Vereinigte Staaten ; Japan ; Volksrepublik China ; Kleine und mittlere Unternehmen Marketing ; Internet ; Multinationales Unternehmen ; Taiwan ; Elektronikindustrie ; Bangladesch ; Urheberrecht ; Joint Venture ; International ; Hongkong ; Personalpolitik ; Management (funktional) ; Internationaler Vergleich/Ländervergleich ; East Asia Congresses Foreign economic relations ; Southeast Asia Congresses Foreign economic relations ; Pacific Area Congresses Foreign economic relations ; Australia Congresses Foreign economic relations ; New Zealand Congresses Foreign economic relations ; East Asia Foreign economic relations ; Congresses ; Konferenzschrift ; Ostasien ; Australien ; Neuseeland ; Außenwirtschaft
    Abstract: This timely book represents the latest research on a selection of key issues in international business in the Asia-Pacific region. In particular the contributors examine the internationalisation process, export expansion and performance, foreign direct investment and the management of international business relationships. More specifically, they analyse: * the growth patterns of Danish and US companies developing operations in the region * the impact of the internet, the competitiveness of the Australian wine industry, and the development and application of export performance measures * the factors influencing the location decisions of Japanese Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) and the investment risk perceptions of Australian MNEs * the multinational knowledge acquisition modes of Taiwanese electronics firms * the protection of intellectual property rights * the use of performance measures in international joint ventures * the human resource management practices of ethnic Chinese-owned enterprises compared to Anglo-American MNEs. This book will become a first point of reference for businesses in this region as well as scholars of international business and Asian studies
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Part I. The internationalisation process -- Part II. Export expansion and performance -- Part III. Foreign direct investment issues -- Part IV. Managing international business relationships -- Index.
    Note: A selection of papers presented at the annual conference of the Australia-New Zealand Business Academy, held September 30-October 2, 1999, and hosted by the Australian Centre for International Business at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781035304103
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 305 pages) , illustrations
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    DDC: 338.4/767/095
    Keywords: Manufacturing industries ; Industries ; Industrial policy
    Abstract: Manufacturing has played a key role in the economic fortunes of the East and South Asian regions. This timely book analyses patterns of rapid catch-up and relative stagnation in the manufacturing sector and links these to economic growth in the region. Dr Timmer describes the manufacturing performance of five Asian countries since the 1960s: China, India, Indonesia, South Korea and Taiwan. Over this period Asian industrial development is placed in an international perspective by comparison with the world productivity leader, the USA. The author uses new empirical data to assess the degree of structural change in the manufacturing sector and its importance for productivity growth. He then discusses conditions for economic growth and catch up, and reviews the role of industrial and technology policies in the promotion of industrial development in Asia
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. The catch-up hypothesis in retrospect -- 3. Industry-of-origin approach to international comparisons -- 4. A benchmark for relative productivity levels -- 5. Catch-up and relative stagnation in aggregate manufacturing -- 6. Catch-up and relative stagnation in manufacturing branches -- 7. Structural change and productivity growth -- 8. The impact of industrial and technology policies -- 9. Summary and conclusions -- References -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-300) and index
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    ISBN: 9781782543831
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 271 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: International studies in environmental policy making
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Market-based instruments for environmental management
    DDC: 336.2
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    Keywords: Umweltabgabe ; Ökosteuer ; Umweltpolitik ; Theorie ; Europa ; Japan ; Environmental impact charges Congresses ; Environmental impact charges Congresses ; Environmental management Congresses ; Environmental management Congresses ; Konferenzschrift ; Europa ; Japan ; Umweltbezogenes Management ; Produktpolitik ; Marketing ; Marktpolitik
    Abstract: Market-based instruments are becoming the environmental management tool of choice and have provided a new perspective on the conventional wisdom about policy instruments. This book analyses the complexities of designing and implementing market-based instruments using case study experiences from the Nordic countries, Japan, France, The Netherlands, Germany and Britain, where a range of green taxes have been introduced. The contributors examine the role of political processes in designing, introducing and implementing green taxes and charges and analyse the extent to which political concerns complicate the approach favoured by environmental economists. The authors then focus on the implementation of market-based instruments to achieve environmental objectives and offer an ex-post evaluation of different countries' experiences with economic instruments. This volume brings together contributions from political scientists and environmental economists and will prove invaluable for academics, practitioners and policymakers interested in the experiences of countries where market-based instruments are well established
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Part I: Introduction -- 1. Market-based instruments in environmental policies -- Part II: Politics and institutions -- 2. Designing and introducing green taxes -- 3. Environmental innovations from the standpoint of policy analysis -- 4. What the doctor should know -- Part III: Mbis in the policy process -- 5. Dialogue and economic efficiency -- 6. Efficiency and fairness -- 7. Explaining why the swedes but not the danes tax fertilizers -- 8. Considering feasibility and efficiency -- Part IV: Implementation problems of mbis -- 9. The limitations of economic instruments as stimuli for technical change, technological change and innovation -- 10. A socio-economic evaluation of the sox charge in Japan -- 11. Assessing the efficiency of economic instruments -- 12. The danish waste tax -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781782543572
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxvi, 288 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Smith, Heather, 1965 - Industry policy in Taiwan and Korea in the 1980s
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    Keywords: 1962-1996 ; Industriepolitik ; Industrialisierung ; Industrieforschung ; Fertigungsberufe ; Staatliche Einflussnahme ; Außenhandel mit Industriegütern ; Exportdiversifizierung ; Japan ; Industrial policy ; Industrial policy ; Taiwan ; Industriepolitik ; Geschichte 1980-1990 ; Südkorea
    Abstract: The growth in global competitiveness and interdependence has led to an increased interest in the role of industrial policy in achieving economic growth objectives. Heather Smith reignites the contentious debate of the role of the state using East Asian economic development in general with particular emphasis on Taiwan and Korea. Using quantitive techniques, the author analyses the view that industry policy interventions were a necessary factor explaining Taiwan's economic performance in the 1980s. Lessons for other countries attempting to upgrade their industrial structure are drawn from the comparative industrialisation experience of Taiwan and Korea, along with: * a comprehensive discussion of strategic industry policy with an application to East Asia. * discussion on the impact of the 1997-1998 financial crisis in Korea * a critique of the structuralist/revisionist literature in the light of the financial crisis. This highly topical study constitutes essential reading for governmental and non-governmental policymakers, business leaders and academics alike
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction: Winning with the market or governing the market? -- 1. The role of government in the industrialisation of Taiwan and Korea -- 2. Taiwan's industry policy in the 1980s -- 3. Korea's industry policy legacy -- 4. Picking winners or sustaining losers? -- 5. Did industrial policy really contribute to industrial upgrading? -- 6. Determinants of industrial competitiveness -- 7. Did industry policy interventions result in sustained productivity and export growth? -- 8. Revision of the revisionists: The 1997-8 Asian crisis -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-280) and index
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    ISBN: 9781782542308
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 340 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von The globalization of industry and innovation in Eastern Europe
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    Keywords: Industrie ; Innovation ; Wirtschaftliche Anpassung ; Internationaler Wettbewerb ; Osteuropa ; Industrial policy ; Structural adjustment (Economic policy) ; Europe, Eastern Economic policy 1989- ; Bibliografie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Osteuropa ; Industrie ; Innovation ; Internationaler Wettbewerb ; Anpassung
    Abstract: In this important book, industrial and enterprise reform over the last decade in Eastern Europe is critically reviewed in light of increasing Eastern integration into the global economy. The authors argue for the further globalization of Eastern European enterprise networks as a condition for recovery and growth in the region. Empirical evidence is provided from five industrial sectors (car industry, telecommunication, shipbuilding, computers, software), including case studies and international comparisons
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction -- Part I: Conceptual framework -- 2. An evolutionary view of post-socialist restructuring -- 3. Enterprise reform and competition analysis in the post-socialist context -- Part II: Empirical analysis and case studies -- 4. The reemergence of the automotive industry in eastern Europe -- 5. Local, regional and global production networks -- 6. Eastern European shipbuilding's cruise towards world markets -- 7. Food processing in western and eastern Europe -- 8. Restructuring -- Of the telecommunications sector in the west and the east and the role of science and technology -- 9. Software -- 10. The eastern European computer industry -- 11. Restructuring the computer and software industries in Poland -- Part III: Summary and outlook -- 12. Main findings and perspectives for innovation policies in eastern Europe and the west -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781782543978
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 141 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von The dynamics of eco-efficient economy
    DDC: 658.4/08
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    Keywords: Umweltmanagement ; Wettbewerb ; Wettbewerbsstrategie ; Umweltpolitik ; Welt ; Industrial management Congresses Environmental aspects ; Environmental policy Congresses Economic aspects ; Industrial management Environmental aspects ; Congresses ; Environmental policy Economic aspects ; Congresses ; Konferenzschrift ; Industriebetrieb ; Umweltbezogenes Management ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Umweltpolitik ; Wettbewerbsvorteil
    Abstract: Entrepreneurs and managers are increasingly aware that the environment can be both a threat and an opportunity to their current economic activities. This timely book discusses the question of environmental performance versus corporate practices and finds that environmental considerations can have a positive effect on business. The perception of the environment as a means to achieve competitive advantage for companies is a relatively recent phenomenon. The contributors address how to create institutional environments that stimulate businesses to integrate the environment in strategic decision making and thereby promote eco-efficiency. Together they build a convincing argument that the economy-environment trade-off is a false stalemate: societal and market forces may impact on the environment and on business in positive, neutral or negative ways. The authors use evidence from the United States and Europe to demonstrate that environmental considerations can have a positive effect on the competitive advantage of firms. This book draws together three fields - environmental economics, environmental regulation and strategic management - and will be of great interest to scholars and practitioners working in these areas
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. The eco-efficient economy: Threat or opportunity for companies? -- 2. Green and competitive: Ending the stalemate -- 3. Environmental policies in Europe -- 4. Combining economic growth with reducing pressure on the environment -- 5. Corporate environmental information and public policy -- 6. Strategic environmental management as an economic and ecological challenge -- 7. Comment: Integrating the environment in business practices -- Index.
    Note: Papers presented at a conference sponsored by the Belgian-Dutch Association for Institutional and Political Economy , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    ISBN: 9781035303885
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 202 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Industrial competitiveness in East-Central Europe
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    Keywords: Internationaler Wettbewerb ; Organisatorischer Wandel ; Strukturwandel ; Ostmitteleuropa ; Structural adjustment (Economic policy) ; Industrial policy ; Industries ; Competition, International ; Post-communism ; Manufacturing industries Europe, Central ; Europe, Central Economic conditions ; Structural adjustment (Economic policy) Europe, Eastern ; Industrial policy Europe, Eastern ; Industries Europe, Eastern ; Competition, International ; Konferenzschrift 1997 ; Osteuropa ; Wirtschaftsreform ; Industrie ; Wettbewerbsfähigkeit
    Abstract: Will the manufacturing industry in east-central Europe survive when the host countries join the European Union? This controversial book challenges the assumption, made by the European Commission, that industries in transitional economies should have little difficulty establishing and maintaining a competitive position after entry into the European Union. The analysis focuses on Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and the former east Germany. Issues discussed include: * changes in economic structures, the transformation of enterprises and financial restructuring * levels of competitiveness in the countries, the region and internationally * industrial policy in the region * levels and nature of investment * limits and sources of growth * integration into western Europe * dangers of over-hasty harmonization of macroeconomic conditions with the European Union The authors conclude that although the basic structures of a market economy are firmly established, the transition has not encouraged the development of more advanced industrial activities. They strongly suggest that there should be an active policy framework, based on international experience, specifically geared towards improving the international competitiveness of industry in east-central Europe
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. The tigers of tomorrow? Structural change and economic growth in east-central Europe -- 2. Competitiveness in east-central Europe -- 3. The macroeconomics of structural transformation -- 4. Financing enterprise restructuring -- 5. Investment and restructuring -- 6. Towards a competitiveness policy in Slovakia -- 7. The transformation of czech enterprises -- 8. Innovation and the east German transformation -- 9. Are the transformations complete?.
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    ISBN: 9781781959855
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 196 pages) , illustrations, maps
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Innovation and technological change in Eastern Europe
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    Keywords: Innovation ; Forschung ; Systemtransformation ; Osteuropa ; Technological innovations Congresses ; Europe, Eastern Economic conditions ; 1989- ; Europe, Eastern Congresses Economic policy ; Konferenzschrift ; Osteuropa ; Wirtschaftsreform ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Innovation ; Osteuropa ; Technische Innovation ; Wirtschaftspolitik
    Abstract: Research suggests that innovation and technological change are crucial for the economic recovery of the former centrally planned countries in Central and Eastern Europe. This book analyses the development of innovation systems and technology policy in this region from various perspectives, demonstrating not only its importance but also its complexity. Included in the book are discussions on: * the process of transforming the innovation systems in Central and Eastern Europe * a comparison of R&D between 'East' and 'West' * gradualism versus 'Big Bang' as the preferable strategy for reform * innovation at the firm level * productivity and competitiveness * the ability to identify and exploit external knowledge in adopting up-to-date technology The authors conclude that rebuilding innovation systems in Central and Eastern Europe will require considerable time, and that there is no 'best practice' or ideal strategy which can be clearly recommended. This book will be warmly welcomed by scholars working in the fields of transition studies, innovation and technology, as well as policy makers involved in designing technology policy in transition economies
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Innovation and transformation in post-socialist eastern Europe -- 2. Innovation systems in transition -- 3. Divergence or convergence in research and development and innovation between 'east' and 'west'? -- 4. The big bang as a motivating device -- 5. Innovation as a means of market entry and survival for firms from former socialist countries -- 6. Innovation and transformation -- 7. The inherited and emerging absorptive capacities of firms - results of a business survey in the Estonian electronics industry -- 8. Export reorientation and transfer of know-how and technology - the case of Hungarian manufactured exports -- 9. Human capital and innovation in eastern and western Germany -- 10. Innovation in manufacturing industry - an east west comparison -- Index.
    Note: Collection of contributions to a conference on "Innovation and Transformation," held at the Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany, in the late summer of 1996--Acknowledgements , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    ISBN: 9781035303762
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 247 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von The impact of Keynes on economics in the 20th century
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    Keywords: Keynes, John Maynard ; Keynesianismus ; Ökonomische Ideengeschichte ; Theorie ; Welt ; Keynesian economics ; Economics Congresses History 20th century ; Keynesian economics ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Keynes, John Maynard 1883-1946 ; Keynessche Theorie
    Abstract: The Impact of Keynes on Economics in the 20th Century reconsiders the nature and significance of Keynes's theories and economic policies. It provides important contrasting interpretations of Keynesian thought, and illustrates the diversity of Keynesianism in different European countries throughout the century. The book provides a blend of theoretical and historical discussions to evaluate the contents and implications of Keynesianism. It includes reappraisals of modern interpretations of Keynes's thought, the extent to which Keynesian ideas were anticipated in different European countries and the reactions to the Keynesian revolution. In addition the authors consider the impact of Keynesian thought on institutions which embraced, rejected or developed alternatives to this school of thought. The book is divided into three main parts. The first addresses Keynesian theory. The second part presents an overall picture of Keynesian-type policies and theories throughout Europe; many of these were not necessarily stimulated by Keynes but were the outcome of national traditions and on-going debates. The third part is devoted to how Keynesian policy has been used by government and non-governmental organizations in an attempt to deal with unemployment and deflation during the twentieth century. The Impact of Keynes on Economics in the 20th Century will be welcomed by historians of economic thought, economic historians and those interested in Keynesian and post-Keynesian developments in Europe during this century
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: Theory -- 1. J.m. Keynes's 'revolution - the major event of twentieth-century economics? -- 2. Mr keynes and the moderns -- 3. The conditions for the reinstatement of Keynesian policy -- Part II: Keynesianism in European countries (before and after the general theory) -- 4. Keynes and the French guardians of say's law -- 5. Keynes before and after the general theory -- 6. Keynes's economic ideas in Spain before the general theory -- 7. The analysis of wages and unemployment revisited -- 8. Keynesianism in Italy -- 9. Keynesian elements in a long-term analysis -- Part III: Institutional discussions of Keynesian policies -- 10. The rationalization of industry as a controversial remedy for unemployment -- 11. Pre-Keynesian themes at brookings -- 12. The ILO and the league of nations -- 13. The beveridge retort -- Index.
    Note: Contains a selection of the papers that were presented to the first annual conference of ESHET, held in Marseilles, 1997 , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    ISBN: 9781035303724
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 284 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: International studies in environmental policy making
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von International competitiveness and environmental policies
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    Keywords: Environmental policy Economic aspects ; Competition, International ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wirtschaft ; Internationaler Wettbewerb ; Umweltpolitik
    Abstract: Government policies to reduce environmental pollution and global warming are often criticized as damaging to the economy, particularly by reducing international competitiveness. This book addresses the issue by examining many of the policies concerned, and their effects on competitiveness. It demonstrates that well-designed, market-oriented environmental policies may be expected to improve both domestic and international competitiveness. The authors dismiss the fear that environmental policies will damage competitiveness by approaching the issue from four different perspectives: the economic analysis of competitiveness; a geo-economic approach to trade and foreign investment between Europe, NAFTA and Southeast Asia; studies of the effects of environmental policies on competitiveness; and the formal modelling of carbon taxation, international competitiveness and carbon leakage. The book also includes results from a global econometric model on the potential for carbon leakage, a detailed case study of German national policies, an examination of life cycle analysis and competitiveness, and an empirical study of green product development. This book will be of great interest to academics working in the field of environmental economics and researchers involved in environmental policy
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction / (T. Barker and J. Köhler) -- Part I: Reviews of the literature -- Part II: Macroeconomic simulations -- Part III: Economic analyses of countries and firms -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781035303496
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 252 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New horizons in environmental economics
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Climate change, transport and environmental policy
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    Keywords: 14.06.1995 ; Klimaschutz ; Umweltpolitik ; Nachhaltige Mobilität ; Föderalismus ; Wirkungsanalyse ; EU-Staaten ; USA ; Environmental policy Congresses ; Environmental policy Congresses ; Climatic changes Congresses Government policy ; Climatic changes Congresses Government policy ; Transportation and state Congresses ; Transportation and state Congresses ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Klimaänderung ; Verkehr ; Umweltpolitik ; Transport
    Abstract: This important new book presents a state-of-the-art assessment of how economic models can be used by different levels of government to combat environmental problems. It considers policies for climate change and transport that can be used at federal and confederal levels of government. The authors examine the unique aspects of environmental policy making in a multi-layered government using empirical case studies covering Europe and the US. They consider the causes of pollution at three levels - federal government, local government and industries and firms. Concentrating on greenhouse gas abatement and the transport sector, they use quantitative techniques to compare alternative policy solutions. This quantitative approach overcomes problems of some inconclusive theoretical prescriptions, which often depend on combinations of particular parameter values. In addition, this method makes it possible to investigate the costs and benefits of a particular solution, and the distribution effects between different groups. This approach also provides insights into the economic consequences of the application of local versus national or federal policies. Climate Change, Transport and Environmental Policy provides the necessary analysis required for environmental policy making in that it uses a quantitative approach to balance the costs and benefits of alternative policy options. Climate Change, Transport and Environmental Policy is an important addition to the literature and will be welcomed by environmental policymakers at the local, regional, national and international level as well as scholars and postgraduate students in environmental economics and public policy
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introductory -- 2. Alternative co2 abatement strategies for the European Union -- 3. National economic impacts of an EU environmental policy: An applied general equilibrium analysis -- 4. Environmental fiscal reforms in a federal Europe -- 5. Coordinated versus non-coordinated European energy/carbon tax solutions analysed with gem-e3 linking the eu-12 countries -- 6. Who's in the driver's seat? Mobile source policy in the us federal system -- 7. Deriving and selecting policy instruments to meet air quality standards in the European Union -- 8. Central versus local regulation of gasoline related automobile emissions: The contrasting cases of lead, co and precursors -- 9. Regional and federal interests in transport and environmental policy making: The case of Belgium -- contributors: J. Braden, c. böhringer, b. De borger, p. Capros, c. carraro, k. conrad, z. degraeve, c. denis, m. Ferris, m. Galeotti, p. georgakopoulous, j.v. Hall, w. harrington, g.j. Koopman, v. Mcconnell, s. Ochelen, s. Proost, d. Van regemorter, t.f. Rutherford, t. Schmidt, d. swysen, l. Teunen, m. Walls, s. Zografakis.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    ISBN: 9781035303489
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 215 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Clarke, Roger A., 1940 - Monopoly policy in the UK
    DDC: 338.8/2/0941
    Keywords: Großbritannien ; 1973-1995 ; Wettbewerbspolitik ; Monopol ; Großbritannien ; Monopolies ; Competition ; Industrial policy ; Großbritannien ; Monopol ; Wirtschaftspolitik
    Abstract: This book investigates monopoly policy in the UK from 1973-1995 using all of the monopoly cases which the Monopolies and Mergers Commission (MMC) reported on during this period. It provides a rigorous analysis of 14 detailed case studies, and focuses specifically on those cases where the MMC sought to introduce change through price controls, termination of anti-competitive practices or divestment. It assesses how effective such measures have been in combating problems such as monopoly pricing, collusion, predatory and discriminatory pricing and different forms of vertical restraint. From the evidence, the authors discuss the strengths and weaknesses of current policy and examine the scope for reform. This book will be of interest to students and researchers interested in competition policy, industrial organisation, the British economy and business strategy
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction -- Part I: An overview -- 2. Review of UK competition policy in general -- 3. Mmc investigations of monopoly -- 4. Methodology and selection of case studies -- Part II: The case studies -- 5. Monopoly pricing and price leadership -- 6. Collusive practices -- 7. Predatory pricing -- 8. Vertical restraints -- Part III: Conclusions -- 9. An overall assessment of the effectiveness of policy -- 10. The case for reform -- Appendix.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-206) and index
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    ISBN: 9781035303731
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 259 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Agriculture, trade, and the environment
    DDC: 338.1/84
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    Keywords: Landwirtschaft ; Umwelt ; Agrarproduktion ; Nachhaltige Entwicklung ; Handelsliberalisierung ; Agrarpolitik ; Welt ; EU-Staaten ; Agriculture and state ; Agriculture Economic aspects ; Sustainable agriculture ; Free trade ; Agriculture and state European Union countries ; Agriculture and state Environmental aspects ; European Union countries ; Konferenzschrift ; Europäische Union ; Agrarpolitik ; Agrarhandel ; Liberalisierung ; Landwirtschaft ; Umweltveränderung ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Europa ; Agrarpolitik ; Europa ; Landwirtschaft ; Umweltschutz ; Europa ; Landwirtschaft ; Nachhaltigkeit
    Abstract: This timely book focuses on the liberalization of agricultural policy and questions whether it is compatible with the goal of achieving economic and environmental sustainability in the European Union. It presents an invaluable contribution to the growing literature on the sustainability and policy aspects of trade liberalization, focusing on European agriculture. Agriculture, Trade and the Environment discusses quantitative methods for the assessment of agriculture-environment trade-offs for policy analysis at the firm, regional or national levels. It also presents the experience of countries in Europe, with particular regard to the impact of the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy and the repercussions of the Uruguay Round. Using a wide range of analytical and quantitative tools, country case studies examine agricultural areas in Austria, Scotland, Italy, Spain, Greece and Estonia. The authors then go on to look at future developments in an enlarged EU context. They conclude that efficient policies for environmental management in the EU need to be tailored to fit local conditions. Any attempt to impose uniform policies across a region as environmentally and economically diverse as Europe will have widely divergent and unintended consequences. This book will prove invaluable to academics and students with an interest in agricultural economics, environmental and ecological economics and the European Union
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction -- 1. Comparative statics on a two-country, one-commodity, two-factor agricultural trade model with process-generated pollution -- 2. Quantifying agriculture-environment tradeoffs to assess environmental impacts of domestic and trade policies -- 3. Decomposing the effects of trade on the environment -- 4. Effects of cap reform on the environment in the European Union -- 5. Consistency between environmental and competitiveness objectives of agricultural policies -- 6. EU agriculture and the economics of vertically-related markets -- 7. Are support measures and external effects of agriculture linked together? -- 8. Principles for the provision of public goods from agriculture -- 9. The impact of the uruguay round on the agro-food sector and the rural environment it Italy -- 10. The common agricultural policy and the environment -- 11. The productivity of agrochemicals in greece -- 12. Agriculture and the environment in transition -- 13. European agriculture and the cap.
    Note: Revised papers selected from the international conference "European agricuture at the crossroads: competition and sustainability" hosted by the Dept. of Economics of the University of Crete, in Rethimno, 1996 , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    ISBN: 9781035303571
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 400 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Advances in ecological economics
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Economy and ecosystems in change
    DDC: 333.7
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    Keywords: Umweltökonomik ; Umweltpolitik ; Nachhaltige Entwicklung ; Wissenschaftliche Methode ; Wirkungsanalyse ; Theorie ; Welt ; Entwicklungsländer ; Environmental economics ; Ecology Economic aspects ; Sustainable development ; Environmental policy Economic aspects ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Ökologie ; Umweltökonomie ; Umweltpolitik ; Nachhaltigkeit
    Abstract: Economy and Ecosystems in Change addresses ecological problems from an economic perspective, and provides policy suggestions for resource management and environmental sustainability based on integrated, multidisciplinary information, methods and applications. The book begins by introducing the different approaches and applications within ecological economics and clarifying new elements and fundamental principles. This initial discussion includes a comparison between ecological and environmental economics and the evaluation and function of ecosystems. The authors then examine the macroeconomy-ecosystem relationship with reference to national and global processes, focusing specifically on employment versus sustainability, trade, industrial transformation and rural development. In the third part there is an evaluation of whether ecosystems and economics can be treated independently; it is argued that the integration of these fields provides more complete insights and information for addressing the complex relationships between human activities and natural processes. Finally, the authors consider the institutional environment and policies affecting public ecosystems subject to economic uses. Using case study evidence, they conclude that public policy often supports an unsustainable use of resources. To counter this the authors propose policy and management options based on natural resource accounts, practical policy objectives and the precautionary principle. Economy and Ecosystems in Change will be of interest to ecological, environmental and resource economists and policymakers
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Ecological economics between theory and policy / (J. van den Bergh, J. van der Straaten) -- Part I: Economics, ecosystems, and uncertainty -- 2. Ecological economics: Paradigm or perspective / (K. Turner, C. Perrings, C. Folke) -- 3. Toward an integration of uncertainty, irreversibility, and complexity in environmental decision making / (S. Faucheux, G. Froger, G. Munda) -- 4. Emergent complexity and ecological economics / (S. Funtowicz, M. O'Connor, J. Ravetz) -- 5. Multi-criteria evaluation as a multidimensional approach to welfare measurement / (G. Munda) -- Part II. Macro-scale -- 6. Effective demand and weak sustainability: A macroeconomic model / (C.E. F. Young) -- 7. Theories of international trade and the environment: Comparison and critique / (C. van Beers, J. van den Bergh) -- 8. Trade, equity, and regional environmental sustainability / (J. Gowdy) -- 9. Sustainable agriculture and rural development in China: Past experiences and future potential / (F. Qu, A. Kuyvenhoven, N. Heerink, T. van Rheenen) -- 10. Structural change, growth, and dematerialization: An empirical analysis / (S. de Bruyn, J. van den Bergh, J. Opschoor) -- Part III. Ecosystem scale -- 11. Economic cultures and ecology in a small Caribbean island / (S. Cole) -- 12. Sustainability and rangeland management / (J. Arntzen) -- 13. Valuing ecosystem change: Theory and measurement / (S. Kask, J. Shogren, P. Morton) -- Part IV. Institutional scale: Policy and management options -- 14. Strategic planning for sustainable development in indonesia using natural resource accounts / (G.-M. Lange) -- 15. Limited knowledge and the precautionary principle: On the feasibility of environmental policies / (F. Hinterberger, G.Wegner) -- 16. Developing countries' primary exports and the internalizaiton of environmental externalities / (H. Kox) -- Index.
    Note: Papers presented at the third meeting of the International Society for Ecological Economics, held in San Jose, Costa Rica from October 24-28, 1994 , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    ISBN: 9781035303410
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 327 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Beyond market and hierarchy
    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Beyond market and hierarchy
    DDC: 330
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    Keywords: 00.10.1995 ; Wirtschaftsreform ; Institutioneller Wandel ; Theorie ; Welt ; Institutional economics Congresses ; Policy sciences Congresses ; Social systems Congresses ; Konferenzschrift ; Institutionenökonomie
    Abstract: This ambitious book presents a conceptual framework for an institutional approach to economic change and economic transformation. It sheds important light on two basic concepts: social complexity and interactive governance. The first part of the book develops the theoretical foundations for dealing with social complexity, economic governance and change. The second part describes the failures and successes of different forms of governance in different cultural and institutional contexts. A major theme in the book is the significance of social context and path-dependence in the management of economic change. The book will have particular appeal to economists and political scientists concerned with the political economy of economic change and the transition process
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Interactive governance and social complexity / (A. Amin and J. Hausner) -- 2. The foundational bearing of complexity / (R. Delorme) -- 3. Cognitive networks and self-organization in a complex socio-economic environment / (M. Orillard) -- 4. Collectivist versus individualist perspectives on the institutional transition process - some methodological remarks / (J. Lange-von Kulessa) -- 5. The governance of complexity and the complexity of governance: Preliminary remarks on some problems and limits of economic guidance / (B. Jessop) -- 6. The nature of institutional change: Managing rival dependencies / (R. van Tulder and W. Ruigrok) -- 7. 'Time-space embeddedness' and 'geo-governance' of cross-border regional modes of growth: Their nature and dynamics in east Asian cases / (N.-L. Sum) -- 8. Emergence of path-dependent mixed economies in central Europe / (B. Chavance and E. Magnin) -- 9. From patient to active agent: An institutional analysis of the Russian border town of vyborg / (R. Kosonen) -- 10. Transitional problems in the Russian agriculture sector: A historical-institutiona perspective / (S. Stahl) -- 11. The globalization of European research and technology organizations (rtos) / (M. Kluth and J. Andersen) -- Index.
    Note: "This book derives from the seventh annual conference of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE), held in Crakow in October 1995"--Pref , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781035303281
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 227 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Evolutionary economics and path dependence
    DDC: 330
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    Keywords: Evolutionsökonomik ; Institutionenökonomik ; Theorie ; Welt ; Evolutionary economics ; Evolutionary economics ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; Evolutorische Wirtschaft ; Evolutorische Wirtschaft
    Abstract: Evolutionary Economics and Path Dependence presents important new theoretical and empirical work on economic change, learning processes, institutional change, choice and path dependency. The theoretical section includes discussion of the microfoundations of path dependency, path dependency in industrial networks, path dependence and the theory of the firm, lock-in effects in relation to professional organizations, the notion of bricolage in relation to path dependency and new and neo-institutional perspectives on the theory of the firm. The empirical part focuses on institutional change in the communications and transport sectors of the economy. More specifically it shows how path dependency occurs and develops through various types of lock-in effects within institutions. This book will be essential reading for academics and students of economics and economic history wishing to keep up-to-date with research at the frontier of this exciting field
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: -- 1. Introduction / L. Magnusson and J. Ottosson -- 2. Mechanisms of evolutionary change in economic governance: Interaction, interpretation and bricolage / J.L. Campbell -- 3. Theory of the firm revisited: New and neo-institutional perspectives / J. Groenewegen and J. Vromen -- 4. Path-dependence of knowledge: Implications for the theory of the firm / B. Nooteboom -- 5. Strategic lock-in as a human issue: The role of professional orientation / M. Dietrich -- 6. The microfoundations of path-dependency / S. Rizzello -- 7. Paths in time and space - path-dependence in industrial networks / H. Hakansson and A. Lundgren -- 8. The making of national telephone networks in scandinavia. the state and the emergence of national regulatory patterns 1880-1920 / L. Andersson-Skog -- 9. Institutions as determinants of institutional change - case studies in the field of eec transport policy / J. Bergdahl and J.L. Östlund -- 10. Institutional change and European air transport, 1910-1985 / P.J. Lyth -- 11. Path dependence and institutional evolution - the case of the nationalisation of private railroads in interwar Sweden / J. Ottosson -- References -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-222) and index
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781035306015
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 212 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Economics and evolution
    DDC: 330
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    Keywords: Evolutionsökonomik ; Theorie ; Evolutionary economics Congresses ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; Evolutorische Wirtschaft
    Abstract: The evolutionary approach to economics can be traced back as far as the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the work of Darwin, Smith and Malthus. These ideas have gradually developed since that time through Marx, Veblen and Marshall, and have recently experienced considerable attention. This book considers the development of evolutionary economics and its place in economic thought today. The book begins with a concise history of evolutionary economics which develops to examine the variety of approaches within the subject. The discussion continues with a rigorous analysis of why, in contrast to popular belief, evolutionary economics is not alien to neoclassical economics, arguing that it may even be considered to complement neoclassical economics. Continuing along this theme the firm is discussed from an evolutionary and neoclassical standpoint. Leading on from this is a discussion of modern model building in evolutionary economics and its relationship with Schumpeter's developmental work. Model building is examined further in relation to endogenous technological change and economic growth, and the effect that technological change and innovation can have on the spatial distribution of new industry. This book will be of special interest to evolutionary and post Keynesian economists and those interested in technological change and innovation
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Variety in the garden of heterodox economics: An Introduction / (J.P.G. Reijnders) -- 2. Economics and evolution and the evolution of economics / (G.M. Hodgson) -- 3. Evolutionary economics: Precursors, paradigmatic propositions, puzzles and prospects / (J.J. Vromen) -- 4. Evolutionary economics and the theory of the firm: Assessments and proposals for research / (N.J. Foss) -- 5. Neo- and post-schumpeterian contributions to evolutionary economics / (E.S. Andersen) -- 6. Economic growth: An evolutionary perspective / (G. Silverberg and B. Verspagen) -- 7. New technology and windows of locational opportunity: Indeterminacy, creativity and chance / (R. Boschma and B. van der Knaap) -- Index.
    Note: Papers presented at the 16th annual conference of the Belgian-Dutch Association for Post-Keynesian Studies, held at Utrecht University, in Utrecht, The Netherlands, in Nov. 1995 , Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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    ISBN: 9781035303366
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 245 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New horizons in environmental economics
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Economic policy for the environment and natural resources
    DDC: 363.73/6
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    Keywords: Umweltpolitik ; Theorie ; Welt ; Environmental policy Economic aspects ; Air Pollution ; Environmental protection ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; Europa ; Umweltpolitik ; Umweltschutz ; Europa ; Luftverschmutzung ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Umweltschutz
    Abstract: Economic Policy for the Environment and Natural Resources presents some of the most important recent work on the theory and application of environmental policy at both the national and international level. At the national level it focuses on instruments for pollution control. At the international level it discusses measures to promote international cooperation for the protection of the environment. This book covers a wide range of major issues including the legal aspects of environmental protection, environmental policy under oligopolistic conditions, voluntary agreements as a policy instrument, participation in international coalitions and environmental policy in dynamic trade models. In discussing the applications of environmental policy, it includes issues such as the profitability of emission saving techniques, water management and acid rain models. This book will be essential reading for both policymakers and professional economists who are concerned with environmental policy
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Environmental protection, producer insolvency and lender liability / (M. Boyer, J.-J. Laffont) -- 2. Environmental feedbacks and optimal taxation in oligopoly / (C. Carraro, A. Soubeyran) -- 3. Environmental R&D, spillovers and optimal policy schemes under oligopoly / (Y. Katsoulacos, A. Xepapadeas) -- 4. Voluntary agreements in environmental policy: A theoretical appraisal / (C. Carraro, D. Siniscalco) -- 5. Environmental policy and the choice of the best available technology: An empirical assessment / (M. Boetti, M. Botteon) -- 6. Managing common access resources under production externalities / (A. Xepapadeas) -- 7. Issue linkage in global environmental problems / (H. Cesar, A. de Zeeuw) -- 8. Reflections on multilateral environmental agreements / (F. Stähler) -- 9. Standards versus taxes in a dynamic duopoly model of trade / (T. Feenstra, P. Kort, P. Verheyen, A. de Zeeuw) -- 10. International negotiations on acid rain in northern Europe: A discrete time iterative process / (M. Germain, P. Toint, H. Tulkens) -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781035305841
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 221 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von The economics of restructuring and intervention
    DDC: 338.9
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    Keywords: Wirtschaftspolitik ; Theorie ; Economic policy ; Economics History 20th century ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; Stabilitätspolitik ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Preis ; Lohn ; Wirtschaftspolitik
    Abstract: The Economics of Restructuring and Intervention carries forward the work of Marx, Kalecki, Keynes and Kaldor in analysing questions of growth, distribution and government intervention. It will be essential reading for all those wishing to understand the massive economic and political shifts as we enter the 1990s - the globalization of markets and production, continued growth of the Third World and East European debt, the emerging digital economy. Political debates thrown up by these economic, industrial and technological developments are subject to rigorous scrutiny and critique - from the employment effects of wage cuts to the calls for 'supply side socialism'
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction -- Part I: the global economy -- 1. The modern dialectic: Ideology and economic reality / (John Kenneth Galbraith) -- 2. The economic instability of the 1980s / (Ferdinando Targetti) -- 3. East European debt: A comparative perspective / (Hans van Zon) -- Part II: kalecki and kaldor -- 4. Kalecki and kaldor on development finance / (Laurence Harris) -- 5. Kaldor's vision of the growth and development process / (A.P. Thirlwall) -- 6. Analysing the operation of market economies in the spirit of kaldor and kalecki / (Malcolm C. Sawyer) -- Part III: Wages and prices -- 7. The search for a 'stylised fact' of cyclical wages / (Jonathan Michie) -- 8. Efficiency wages: Mark-up pricing and effective demand / (Peter Skott) -- 9. The economic of shortage: A post-kaleckian approach / (Malcolm C. Sawyer) -- Part IV: supply side socialism -- 10. Industrial restructuring and public intervention / (Nicholas Costello, Jonathan Michie and Seumas Milne) -- 11. Supply side socialism in the uk: A post-Keynesian perspective / (Philip Arestis).
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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