At the beginning of the transition process, the countries of Central and Eastern Europe faced the task of creating a functioning financial system where none had existed before. A decade later, high-level practitioners and well-known experts take stock of banking and monetary policy in the...

Public health has, for many years, been concerned with efforts to increase the efficiency of health care delivery, to measure changes in health care resource utilization and associated costs, and to link these changes to different types of interventions. These efforts, as well as collaboration...

Introduction / Henry J. Aaron and Joel Slemrod -- The tax shelter battle / Joseph Bankman -- Issues of international tax enforcement / David R. Tillinghast -- Small business and the tax system / Joel Slemrod -- The Turbotax revolution : can technology solve tax complexity? / Austan Goolsbee --...

Managing in an age of modularity / Carliss Y. Baldwin and Kim B. Clark -- Fast, global, and entrepreneurial : supply chain management, Hong Kong style : an interview with Victor Fung / Joan Magretta -- How Chrysler created an American Keiretsu / Jeffrey H. Dyer -- The power of trust in...

Multiplatform e-learning systems are emerging technologies that provide integrated learning content to various accessing devices. This book addresses technical challenges, design frameworks, and development experiences of the future that integrate multiple mobile devices into a single...

Nobel Prize winner James Tobin has made outstanding contributions to modern macroeconomics. In this final collection of his work he examines the economic policies of the United States and its relations with other major economies after 1990. In James Tobin's view, the welfare of populations...