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Unfunded pension systems
This book analyses the viability of unfunded pension systems in the presence of the projected demographic evolution and looks at: efficiency considerations and the possibility of welfare improvements; political economy aspects and the feasibility of reforms; and the process of European integratio...
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Higher education and working life
Provides a discussion of the relationship between higher education and working life from three different perspectives: society, higher education and the world of work. Divided in three sections, it discusses the interplay between education and work both from the societal point of view and from th...
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Advances in political psychology
Focusing on political psychology as a way of exploring politics, this volume shows how political psychology provides a window on the world by exploring issues of identity, political participation and framing as well as showing how world leaders, institutions and governments do it politically.
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Handbook of transport modelling
Covers demand methods, data issues, valuation, cost and performance, and traffic models. THis book contains supplementary case studies that illustrate how modelling can be applied to the study of the different transport modes and the infrastructures that support them.
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Theory and practice of foreign aid
Contains a comprehensive analysis of foreign aid from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. This volume is divided into two parts: Theory of Aid and Empirical Studies on Aid. It examines aid practices in a variety of countries and under a variety of conditions.
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Military missions and their implications reconsidered
Focuses on developments in the military sphere and assesses the impact of September Eleven on the armed forces in terms of, inter alia, conflict management capabilities, and social and psychological developments inside military units, recruitment and civil-military relations of the armed forces.
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Brownfields redevelopment and the quest for sustainability
Examines the role that brownfields redevelopment is playing and can play in our quest for sustainability, focusing on efforts in the US and Canada. This book looks at how brownfields are used as spaces for developing an array of residential, recreational, and employment-oriented projects that hav...
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Handbook of transport geography and spatial systems
Transport systems, the vital arteries of modern societies and economies, shape our world and are shaped by it. This volume talks about the dynamic interactions between transport and the physical, economic, and human geographies it weaves through. It also discusses how to obtain appropriate data a...
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Contemporary and emerging issues in trade theory and policy
Part of the "Frontiers in Economics & Globalization" series, this book deals with a range of trade and development issues in terms of the general equilibrium structure. It shows how neo-classical models of trade theory can be used to highlight many challenging global problems.
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Structure, regulation and competition
The years since the early 1980s have seen exceptionally fast rates of change in every aspect of the telecommunications industry. This volume prov ides detailed reviews and commentaries on these contemporary changes in the landscape of a major industry from an academic perspective.
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Communities of networked expertise
The authors examine theories and models that help to understand individual and social aspects of processes of learning, development of expertise, knowledge creation, and innovation. These processes are studied both in the contexts of education and work, and are illuminated with numerous examples,...
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New technology-based firms in the new millennium
Derived from the Annual International High Technology Small Firms (HTSFs) Conference, this volume gives a basis for fresh "evidence-based" government policy, although governments in many developed economies have often been seduced by "fads", in circumstances where policy solutions are crudely ado...
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Educational research, methodology and measurement
Covers topics related to the methods of educational inquiry. This encyclopedia includes articles that trace the history of educational research and the methods of both humanistic and scientific research. It also includes articles on research methodology and statistical analysis.
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New vision for management education
Many academic institutions tend to be managed on an ad hoc basis as the leadership may not be fully and formally equipped to lead, and stakeholder-mix issues often limit its ability to govern proactively. This book is meant as a guide for making strategic management a more realistic option.
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The economics of airline institutions, operations and marketing
Focuses on topics related to the economics of airline institutions such as airports, air traffic control, labor, operations and marketing. This book provides a collection of articles covering developments in the airline industry.
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Instructional psychology
Celebrates Erik De Cortes' scientific career in the international scientific field of instructional psychology. This book addresses the core topics of the learning sciences from a diversity of perspectives. Its sixteen chapters are grouped into 6 sections, including: Learning and Development; Lea...
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Empirical measurement and analysis of productivity and technological change
Empirical Measurement and Analysis of Productivity and Technological Change
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The take-off of israeli high-tech entrepreneurship during the 1990s
This book conceptualizes the success of Israeli high-tech as a multilevel operation consisting of global, governmental, sources of new start ups, organizational, and industrial factors. It discusses each of these factors individually and the interaction between them, and is an aid for understandi...
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Silicon valley north
Despite the evident importance of Silicon Valley North for regional, national, and international technological development this phenomenon is far from being well understood. An exceptionally timely endeavor, this book is devoted to the multidimensional and multifaceted nature of SVN, its history,...
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Measuring market power
Dedicated to the measurement and definition of market power across a broad array of industries, this text should provide economists and lawyers with an insight into how anti-trust economists actually go about measuring market power in a given industry.
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Contemporary accounting research
Provides a synopsis of the various accounting sub-fields and an analysis of the controversies. This book shows how, often, critique authors and their discussants express divergent opinions, and how such disagreement offers an encouraging signal that there remain interesting, open research questio...
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Panel data and structural labour market models
This book contains papers focusing on theoretical and empirical modelling of the labour market covering both wage equilibrium models and models for labour market transition. Contributions range from the theoretical or econometric through to empirical structural methods and exploratory data analys...
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Mathematical and economic theory of road pricing
Provides the methodological advances in applying advanced modeling techniques to road pricing. This book discusses topics such as: fundamentals of traffic equilibrium problems; principle of marginal-cost road pricing; models and algorithms for the general second-best road pricing problems; social...
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Institutions and planning
Written by a distinguished group of academics in planning, this work examines the impact of the institutionalism on the field of planning and on its theory. It is concerned with how civic traditions and institutions affect the urban realm. It also presents the meaning of public-private partnershi...
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The peace dividend
These papers demonstrate how different kinds of analytical approach can be used to anticipate the economic repercussions of systematic reduction of military spending. It is of interest to economists, scholars in peace studies and international relations, and government officials dealing with disa...
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Global economy and digital society
A selection of 20 papers from the 14th biennial conference of the International Telecommunications Society, covering a variety of topics related to the digital society and providing a balanced overview of current and emerging issues of high relevance to policymakers, researchers and private compa...
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Economics, econometrics and the link
This tribute to the work of Lawrence R. Klein, from all his friends who share a common agenda to relate the study of economics to the studies of mankind, is a learned, erudite exposition of macroeconomics and macroeconomic modeling including national, sectoral, issues exchange rate, environment, ...
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Economic complexity
The book presents an overview of advanced contributions to complexity in economics and social system, such as chaotic dynamics and multiple equilibria, agent-based models, applications of genetic algorithms, non-equilibrium macro-dynamics, information transmission, learning mechanisms.
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Corporate crisis and risk management
Presents the theoretical background to risk and corporate crisis management and offers useful methods and techniques applicable to small and medium sized enterprises in the event of disastrous situations such as fire, flood, storm, etc. This book deals with topics such as globalization, internati...
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Competition policies in europe
Describes the development of competition policy in 10 EU Member States, and the interaction of those policies with EU competition policy. This work includes the convergence of competition policy to the EU approach and the influence of Member State practice on EU competition policy. It analyzes it...
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Computer games and team and individual learning
Documents research on the impact of computer games on the learning of adults. Designed for professionals in the gaming, simulation, assessment and evaluation, educational technology, and educational psychology communities, this book explores the use of computer game technology for teaching and me...
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The theory of monetary aggregation
William Barnett, the coeditor of this volume, introduced modern economic index number theory into monetary economics and this book comprises a focussed and unified collection of his most important publications in this area. It provides a clear and systematic development of the state-of-the-art i...
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New venture investment
New venture founders and their sponsors seek to create economic value by finding and commercializing new and better ways of doing things. It also requires a deeper understanding of the consequences of new venture investment as well as the various contextual factors that influence investment decis...
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Fair value and pension fund management
Written in accordance with the rules set by the International Accounting Standards Board, this work deals with the application of fair-value principles to accounting for pensions. It is of interest to pension professionals, pension fund trustees, and regulators.
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Access pricing
Access prices are important for competition in formerly monopolistic industries, and also for industries where competition has long been established such as payment and credit card networks or mobile telecommunications. Organized into five parts, this book provides theoretical and empirical analy...
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Modelling the riskiness in country risk ratings
The book focuses on agency rating system of the international country risk guide and analyses risk returns and models of conditional volatility. Time series data permit a comparative assessment of risk ratings for 120 countries, and highlight the importance of economic, financial and political ri...
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Labor market contracts and institutions
Examines the developments in labour contracts and relates them to the content of such contracts, and to differences in labour contracts which depend on the specifics of the institutional environment in which they are negotiated. This volume also compares differences in labour contracts in Europea...
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Telecommunications and socio-economic development
Telecommunications systems are central to the development of a global economy, and are fundamental to the means by which most business is conducted, organised and managed. These papers tacitly stress the importance of path dependence; that is, institutional features and history, are important in ...
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Tourism, trade and national welfare
This volume covers subject areas such as: A Two-Sector General Equilibrium Model of a Small Open Economy; Non-Traded Goods and Tourism in the Pure Theory of Trade; Tourism, Taxes and Immiserization in a Two-Country Trade Model; Guest Workers and Resident Immiserization; Terms of Trade and Residen...
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Government for the future
This volume encourages comparative explorations of the links between economic regionalism and government behaviour. Theories of the public sector are reviewed, restructured and extended, and historical and institutional perspectives on the public sector examined in empirical case studies from Swe...
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Explaining growth in the middle east
Focused on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region this book looks at wide-ranging and diverse topics of interest, from dictatorships, civil wars, terrorism and water shortages, to more economic problems arising from volatile oil prices, barriers to trade and foreign investment, dominance ...
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Alternative food geographies
Examines the efforts to reform contemporary food provision. This book addresses concepts and debates, public policy, and alternative production. It includes case studies from around the world.
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War, peace, and security
In the name of international and domestic security, billions of dollars are wasted on unproductive military spending in both developed and developing countries, when millions are starving and living without basic human needs. This book contains articles relating to military spending, military ind...
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Macroeconomic modelling and policy implications
Aims to review and discuss the different varieties of macro modelling of economic policies. This book also attempts to analyze policy themes that are important in Finland and elsewhere. Its last set of papers analyze exchange rate policies in Finland and issues in European Economic Integration.
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