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Understanding Ponzi schemes : can better financial regulation prevent investors from being defrauded?

Lewis, Mervyn K. - 2015

A Ponzi scheme is one of the simplest, albeit effective, financial frauds to engineer, and new schemes keep coming forward. Despite this, however, people continue to invest in them. How are we to account for the seemingly never-ending lure of such schemes? In providing answers to this central...

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Competitive electricity markets and sustainability

Lévêque, François (contributor) - 2006

Investments in competitive electricity markets : an overview / François Lévêque -- Investment and generation capacity … transmission investment in a deregulated power / Steven Stoft -- Patterns of transmission investments / Paul Joskow -- Long …-term locational prices and investment incentives in the transmission of electricity / Yves Smeers -- Compatibility of investment …

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Handbook of research on nonprofit economics and management

Seaman, Bruce Alan (contributor); … - 2010

. Seaman -- Nonprofits and the value of risk management / Martin F. Grace -- Contracting out / Salvatore Alaimo -- Product …

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Corporate governance, market structure and innovation

Calderini, Mario (contributor); … - 2003

This book investigates the relationship between corporate governance, market structure and innovation. The editors observe that a number of radical mutations are occurring in industries that have played a crucial role in sustaining and fostering the pace of technological progress

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Handbook of critical information systems research : theory and application

Howcroft, Debra (contributor); … - 2005

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Progress in the competitive agenda in the postal and delivery sector

Crew, Michael A. (contributor); … - 2009

Regulation continues to be an important issue in the postal and delivery sector of the global economy. This latest volume of the series covers progress made in the competitive agenda in the industry. It is global in scope and addresses topics of great importance to scholars and practitioners of...

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World finance and economic stability : selected essays of James Tobin

Tobin, James - 2003

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...

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The revival of laissez-faire in American macroeconomic theory : a case study of the pioneers

Kasper, Sherryl Davis - 2002

This book provides the definitive account of this watershed and traces the evolution of laissez-faire using the cases of its proponents, Frank Knight, Henry Simons, Friedrich von Hayek, Milton Friedman, James Buchanan and Robert Lucas. By elucidating the pre-analytical framework of their...

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Incentives to improve education : a new perspective

McMeekin, Robert W. - 2003

Incentives to Improve Education identifies three categories of incentives: rewards, (financial rewards for teachers), competition (educational choice, often in the form of payment for education by voucher) and threats (introduction of external standards and accountability for performance)

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