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Risk management
Examines the expectations that underlie financial risk models and the practices and institutions they have engendered. This work includes subjects ranging from risk reporting and risk forecasting to enterprise risk management and the effect of behavioral finance on compensation systems. It seeks ...
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Personnel preparation
Advances in knowledge of effective strategies for the treatment of learning and behavioral disabilities are of little use without highly trained and effective personnel to implement these strategies. This volume discusses a wide range of important issues in the preparation of those personnel.
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Link analysis
This book provides methods, guidelines and examples to guide researchers and students through a research project, and reviewing a considerable body of previous work. It contains a complete link analysis methodology for information science and social science research. Case studies include academic...
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Forecasting in business and economics
Describes the major techniques of forecasting used in economics and business. This book focuses on the forecasting of economic data and covers a range of topics, including the description of the Box-Jenkins single series modeling techniques; forecasts from purely statistical and econometric model...
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Nonlinear economic dynamics
Nonlinear Economic Dynamics
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Eu and us banking in the 1990s
Provides an example of applied analysis of banking to students attending courses on financial markets and banking and financial integration. This book discusses the nature of banking in relation to 3 main areas in economic theory which are: market failure and the need for regulation; effects of d...
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Grounding grounded theory
In searching out the methodological principles on which grounded theory is built, the author reveals its main features as a qualitative research methodology for social research and the issues fundamental to understanding it. He also highlights the disagreements between the originators of grounded...
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Social welfare spending
Social Welfare Spending: Accounting for Changes from 1950 to 1978
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Modern information systems for managers
Offers several features to prepare executives for effective utilization of information systems. This book presents coverage of the information systems technology within the context of information systems and issues surrounding design and implementation of information systems including microcomput...
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Mathematics for economists
Focuses on two key components of microeconomics - optimization subject to constraints and the development of comparative statics. The book assumes familiarity with calculus of one variable and basic linear algebra, allowing coverage of additional topics like the chain rule and Taylor's theorem.
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The myceneaens and europe
This book presents a catalogue and discussion of the Late Bronze Age Minoan-Mycenaean agricultural, wood-working, met-allurgical and general purpose tools found in Europe.
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Bargaining and markets
The formal theory of bargaining originated with John Nash's work in the early 1950s. This book discusses the developments in this theory. It uses the tool of extensive games to construct theories of bargaining in which time is modeled explicitly, and also applies the theory of bargaining to the s...
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Ceramics, chronology and community patterns
This book should prove useful to scholars in a variety of ways, for it deals with culture-historical, methodological, and evolutionary issues from shedding light on Moundville’s development. In addressing matters of culture history, the study presents a detailed and well documented Mississippian ...
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Advances in librarianship
This volume focuses on how libraries have been changed by electronic communication of information and knowledge. his volume not only covers digital trends but also looks at issues of significance to librarians today in the areas of reference and management in its last three papers.
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Advances in librarianship
Covers various areas of public, college, university, primary and secondary schools, and special libraries. This is a useful reference source for developments in the field of libraries and library science. The articles featured have won national prizes.
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The methods and materials of demography
Presents an exposition of the methods used by technicians and research workers in dealing with demographic data. This book is concerned with the ways data on population are gathered, classified, and treated to produce tabulations and various summarizing measures that reveal the significant aspect...
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Progress in psychobiology and physiological psychology
Covers a broad range of contemporary topics in behavioral neuroscience. This book focuses on the mammalian suprachiasmatic nucleus system emphasizing inputs to the 'clock', their neurochemical phenotype, and outputs from the 'clock' to behavioral and other effector systems.
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Asymptotic theory for econometricians
An econometric estimator is a solution to an optimization problem. This book provides the tools and concepts necessary to study the behavior of econometric estimators and test statistics in large samples.
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Economics at the wheel
Talks about cars and driving, and the various problems that cars and drivers create for America. This book explains actual government policy intended to reduce the damage cars and drivers do to us, and it explains why these government policies are almost all failures because they attack the wrong...
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Macroeconomic theory
Include chapters such as: The Consumption Function, Government Debt and Taxes, and Dynamic Optimal Taxation. This book also features chapters dealing with difference equations, stochastic difference equations, and investment under uncertainty.
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The four asian tigers
Examines the geopolitical and economic contexts of the region's export-oriented industrialization. This book focuses on the global and regional elements of the economic system and geo-politics. It also focuses on the domestic actors and institutions which played critical roles in the miracle econ...
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Advances in librarianship
An essential reference source for developments in the field of libraries and library science. All areas of public, college, university, primary and secondary schools, and special libraries are given up-to-date, critical analysis by experts engaged in the practice of librarianship, in teaching, an...
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Communication and relational maintenance
Addresses the question, "How do people maintain their personal relationships?" This volume discusses the everyday processes used to maintain an on-going relationship. It looks at interpersonal communication, social-psychological factors relevant to maintenance, and the resolution of conflict.
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Advances in librarianship
All areas of public, college, university, primary and secondary schools, and special libraries are given up-to-date, critical analysis by experts engaged in the practice of librarianship, in teaching, and in research.
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Resource theory
Presents the developments in resource theory and gives a representative sample of contemporary research conducted within this theoretical perspective. This book provides empirical evidence supporting the cross-cultural validity of this framework. It talks about social exchange theory, cross-cultu...
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Big bets gone bad
In December 1994, Orange County became the largest municipality in US history to become bankrupt. How can a municipal investment pool, which is supposed to be safe, lose billions of dollars? What are derivatives and how did they contribute to this tragedy? This book presents a description of the ...
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Managerial economics
Managerial economics is the application of economic theory and quantitative methods (mathematics and statistics) to the managerial decision-making process. This book contains a chapter on game theory and on the time value of money and capital budgeting. It is intended for students with limited pr...
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The social impact of computers
Technology does not invite an examination of its own consequences. Issues concerning ethics and professionalism, privacy, autonomy, free speech, and ethics have often been recognized but rarely receive analysis and illumination they deserve. This book is a study in the success of the computer in ...
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Power laws in the information production process
Explains numerous informetric regularities based on a decreasing power law as size-frequency function, i.e. Lotka's law. It revives the historical formulation of Alfred Lotka of 1926 and shows the power of this power law, both in classical aspects of informetrics (libraries, bibliographies) and i...
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Communicating in the classroom
This volume brings together a multidisciplinary perspective of recent work, both theoretical and empirical, on the use of language for communicating in the classroom.
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Advances in librarianship
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The conceptual foundations of descriptive cataloging
Presents the general principles underlying the design of bibliographic databases. This book covers topics such as the impact of technology on catalogs and catalog codes, design objectives for online catalogs, standardization and integration in bibliographic control, and access to bibliographic in...
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