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Strategic countryside management
The complex and conflicting demands that society makes on the countryside have led to a strategic approach to its management. This work evaluates the key challenges facing managers and policy-makers in the British countryside, and examines a range of strategies for making the most of our natural ...
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Reframing the conceptual change approach in learning and instruction
Drawing from philosophical, historical, and psychological research, this book redefines conceptual change as it applies to learning and instruction. It addresses topics such as: foundations of conceptual change research, examines the influence that personal beliefs have on conceptual change, and ...
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International business law and lex mercatoria
Traditionally, legal problems arising in connection with international business transactions had to be solved by a national law. This view was challenged in post war scholarly writing and transnational practice.
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Advances in corporate finance and asset pricing
Incorporates estimation risk in portfolio choice and also covers a risk measure for retail investment products, understanding and exploiting momentum in stock returns. This book includes: Introduction - Corporate restructuring; mergers and acquisitions in Europe; and the performance of acquisitiv...
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European economic integration
Using a variety of research methods, this book analyzes the effects and challenges of European integration. Topics covered include macroeconometric and applied general equilibrium modelling, international trade and applied econometric analysis.
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Measuring the demand for environmental quality
Measuring the Demand for Environmental Quality
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Trade, growth and development
In March 1998, professional colleagues and students of TN Srinivasan joined together at the Festschrift Conference at Yale to honor his work. This book contains 19 of the contributions which were presented, reflecting the 4 closely related dimensions of trade and development. It deals with the va...
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The economics of open source software development
Open Source Software (OSS) development presents a contrast to traditional production and innovation methods and an unlikely contestant in the marketplace. The emergence of open source software has fundamentally changed the software business. This book serves as a useful reference for those intere...
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Impact of trade on labor
Proponents of free trade argue that a benefit for developing countries is that it provides economic opportunities for their asset-less workers. To what extent have workers benefited? This book attempts to piece together evidence on the effects of trade liberalization on labor markets in developin...
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The political economy of policy reform
This is a collection of papers from a conference in honor of J. Michael Finger on the occasion of his retirement from the World Bank. It covers a number of important issues in the analysis of policy reform and the political economy of policy reform including policy learning and the role of intern...
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Integrated land-use and transportation models
Examines the behavioural foundations, often simplistic, that have limited land-use and transportation models in the past, and recommends alternative assumptions, frameworks and methods. This work includes the ways to measure and represent the processes of decision-making that lead to the organisa...
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Patent activity and technical change in us industries
This book investigates the impact of USA patent activity on technical change in 35 industries given in the KLEM (Jorgenson, 1996) data set for the period 1958-1996. Four patent variables are introduced, namely total patent applications, total patents granted, unsuccessful patent applications and ...
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The personal income tax
The Personal Income Tax
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Transportation and traffic theory
Covers a range of aspects of the modelling of transportation processes as complex systems. This work includes contributions that deal with some aspect of human behaviour whether as travellers, drivers, passengers, operators, or regulators reflecting the strides being made in developing theories a...
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Handbook of transport and the environment
Devoted to the environmental impacts of transport. This work looks at the various aspects of the subject such as environmental concepts, both physical and economic. It also examines environmental concerns such as: global warming, air quality, noise, safety, amenity, and severance; political setti...
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Functional structure inference
The volume brings together fundamental new research in economics, including relevant significant innovations in microeconometrics, macroeconomics, and monetary and financial economics, thereby making substantive contributions to the literature. Most of the chapters were delivered as papers at a c...
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Intellectual property and doing business in china
An intellectual property (IP) system was established in China in 1985. Systematic studies of the subject are still scarce, especially from a corporate management perspective and this book attempts to fill in the gap.
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Transportation networks
Comprises twenty papers presented at the 4th Meeting of the EURO (Association of European Operational Research Societies). This work addresses the developments in the theory and applications of transportation science, particularly those based on OR methods such as optimisation, mathematical progr...
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Competition and ownership in land passenger transport
The International Conference series on Competition and Ownership of Land Passenger Transport (Thredbo Series) is an event that brings together academics, government policy makers, politicians, consultants and public transport operators to review the developments in the theme area. This book prese...
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Population change, labor markets and sustainable growth
Demographic changes (dropping birth rates, decline in population growth and rapid population aging), their economic implications, and possible policy responses are the subject matter of this volume. It draws on international experience to address these issues, but focuses on the experience of Jap...
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Public transport in developing countries
Examining the problems and characteristics of public transport systems in developing countries, this book discusses the alternative modes, management methods, and forms of ownership, control, regulation and funding, with particular emphasis on what is appropriate at different stages of developmen...
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Dynamics of endogenous economic growth
Concerned with the methods by which the dynamics of endogenous economic growth systems may be analysed and numerically computed, and with the validation of such numerical computations through qualitative economic reasoning, this book provides an examination of the transitional dynamics of the inf...
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Land use and transport
Shows the inter-relationships between transport and land use planning, emphasising the nature of their integration, and showing benefits of integration. This book demonstrates research findings and draws conclusions for application to policy and practice.
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Globalism and localism in telecommunications
The telecommunications industry is being transformed by contradictory forces: on the one hand, the trend toward global expansion by carriers, and on the other hand, fragmentation and entry in local communications. This volume discusses the complexities of the bi-polar forces and maps out the poli...
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Economics of the arts
The economics of art markets is an area open to econometricians, theorists, economic and art historians, labour economists, and students interested in the economic analysis of legal problems. This volume covers a number of issues including auction anomalies, the management of museums, the excess ...
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Business information needs and strategies
Presents an understanding of business information in the context of those who seek business information. This book contains information-seeking behavior that includes the underlying information needs that drive one to seek information, and the types of information used to resolve information needs.
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Shipping company strategies
About developing implementable strategies for shipping firms. This book takes a close look at the challenge of driving one's strategy towards niches, with a spotlight on how to find a viable business opportunity and develop a defendable strength there.
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Role of institutions in rural policies and agricultural markets
Focuses on the three areas of interest in institutions: policy implementation, market and supply chain organisation and management of rural resources and rural systems. The chapters cover insights on the significance of institutions on transaction costs, policy analysis, agri-environmental polici...
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The political economy of antitrust
Motivated by recent events and experiences in antitrust enforcement and policy in the United States and the European Union, and new insights and findings from academic research, this book presents a collection of theoretical, empirical and public policy-oriented articles representing recent resea...
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Forecasting in the presence of structural breaks and model uncertainty
Forecasting in the presence of structural breaks and model uncertainty are active areas of research with implications for practical problems in forecasting. This book addresses forecasting variables from both Macroeconomics and Finance, and considers various methods of dealing with model instabil...
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Competition policy and antitrust
Part of a "New Series", this work focuses on topics related to competition policy and antitrust, such as the economic impact of airline alliances (both international and domestic), predation, and incumbent responses to low cost entry.
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Nonlinear time series analysis of business cycles
This volume of Contributions to Economic Analysis addresses a number of important questions in the field of business cycles including: How should business cycles be dated and measured? What is the response of output and employment to oil-price and monetary shocks? And, is the business cycle asymm...
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Designing user interfaces for international use
Dealing with the topic of international user interfaces, this book presents both general guidelines and a number of detailed case studies on the many aspects entailed. It is of interest to project managers, lecturers, students, developers of basic software and user interface designers.
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Intellectual property, growth and trade
Offers comprehensive and analytical literature surveys of the central questions regarding the linkages between intellectual property protection, international trade and investment, and economic growth. This book covers such questions as policy coordination in IPR, dispute resolution, and markets ...
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Recent advances in city logistics
Urban freight transport has become an essential issue in urban planning. This book is an outcome of the Fourth International Conference on City Logistics (City Logistics IV held in Langkawi in 2005) organised by the Institute for City Logistics. It includes recent developments in the modelling, e...
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New directions in macromodelling
The monograph concentrates on recent developments in modelling economic processes on a macro level. It focuses on two main areas, namely, co-integration analysis and the use of high frequency time series. Special emphasis is put on testing, application of VEqCM models to I(1) as well as I(2) vari...
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Access to destinations
Much of land use and transportation planning aims to reduce traffic congestion. Comprehensive and policy relevant measures useful to land-use and transportation planning need to capture both land use and travel dimensions. This book focuses on the science and policy around the multi-modal concept...
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The study of tourism
Aims to use personal histories of pioneers to describe and analyze the emergence of tourism study among anthropologically oriented scholars. This work is intended for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students, as well as for the general public.
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The political economy of trade, aid and foreign investment policies
Analyzing several aspects of the political economy of international economic policy,this book contains 12 essays that address the areas of the political economy of trade, aid and investment policy, and therefore will be of interest to academic researchers and students of international economics.
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Lifetime income distribution and redistribution
Analysing lifetime distribution and redistribution, this book uses a cohort microsimulation model as a tool to analyse several questions which concern income distribution and redistribution, social security and income tax incidence. It is suitable for those working in social and economic policy w...
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Applied financial econometrics in e-commerce
Deals with the investigation of the contemporary financial issues of the e-commerce market.
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Urban transport and the environment
The damaging environmental impact of urban transport is a worsening global problem that needs to be tackled with local solutions. This book was commissioned with the aim of helping to develop those solutions by sharing experience from around the world.
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Moving through nets
Based on selected papers presented at the triennial IATBR (International Association for Travel Behavior Research) conference in August 2003.
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Taxing the hard-to-tax
In the developed and developing world, taxing certain kinds of activities, sectors or individuals - the so-called "hard-to-tax" - is a challenge for governments. This volume's goal is to take a hard, objective look at the different aspects of taxing the hard-to-tax, as well as at a variety of app...
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