What is the effect of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on Economic Growth? This book tackles the question at different levels of aggregation: from broad cross-country level analysis to a more de...więcej »
This book studies the way subjective beliefs are modelled in game theory, asset pricing and monetary economics. We first explicitly provide mathematical foundations for the common prior assumption ...więcej »
The land reform in Venezuela was introduced in 2001 and will according to its proponents decrease the country's oil dependency through increasing agricultural production. The law also intends to ...więcej »
Many alternative models have been developed lately to generalize the Black-Scholes option pricing model in order to incorporate more empirical features. Brownian motion and normal distribution have...więcej »
This book studies the welfare effects of external
capital flows in small open developing countries with
special emphasis on primary commodity export dependent
countries. Welfare cost of macroeconom...więcej »
Adaptive Learning in games of choice is the ability to learn from own and others' past behavior and a subsequent assimilation of this information in the decision structure in all subsequent peri...więcej »
Historically, environmental regulations are considered to be detrimental to economic growth and their implementation has been controversial among economists and environmental policymakers. This bo...więcej »
Econometrics has been a rather intimidating academic subject that both undergraduate as well as postgraduate students come across in courses of mainly economic nature. In spite of the daunting el...więcej »
Ever since it was founded, China's stock market has experienced a cycle of boom and bust. Some investors earn money from it, while many others suffer enormous losses. In recent years, the over...więcej »
Although in-situ conservation is increasingly considered an efficient way of conserving plant genetic resources, little is known about the incentives and constraints that govern conservation de...więcej »
The "Economics of Information Biasing (EIB)" focuses on information sharing strategies of individuals and their impact on institutions and human values. It introduces a simplified modeling of inst...więcej »
The supply of human capital in production activities
is a function of the quality and volume of education
services provided at the basic and tertiary levels in
the education system. Accordingly, th...więcej »
The study was designed to discuss the main features of contract vegetable production; to examine the vegetable supply chain, to estimate profitability of vegetables produced by contract and non-con...więcej »
This book introduces a new theoretical framework for the analysis of access pricing (the prices that networks charge each other for call completions) and the modeling of network interconnection com...więcej »
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is a Greenhouse Gas (GHG) offset mechanism which is a part of the Kyoto Protocol. It allows developed countries to reduce GHGs in developing countries. ...więcej »
Corporate governance is a process in motion, and the practice of corporate governance has developed radically in the last few years. All countries around the world are now aiming to issue new co...więcej »
India has a federal structure of governance with 28 states and 7 union territories. States are different in their geographical, economic, business, infrastructural, political and social aspects....więcej »
A broad expansion of the use of renewable energy in place of carbon-based energy, in addition to investments in energy efficiency, comprise a prominent strategy to slow or reverse the effects of...więcej »
This is a study pertaining to the determinants of demand for small island destinations that attract international tourism. The study specifies a dynamic econometric model that reflects causal li...więcej »
Convergence is a topic that is quite popular in development economics. There has been a great deal of research on this issue and specifically on convergence between and within post communist co...więcej »