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Insurance and risk management
Niehaus, Greg (contributor) - 2008
There is a broad range of literature on the economics of insurance and risk management. This timely publication … contains recent theoretical contributions to the economics of insurance and presents empirical tests and applications of the … theory to many different insurance markets. It also offers important insights into the factors influencing corporate risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852241
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Banking and insurance in the new China : competition and the challenge of accession to the WTO
Chen, Jianxun; Shi, Huici - 2004
insurance - since accession to the WTO in 2001. This book scrutinizes the development and limitations of these industries during … opportunities. The relationships between the market structure, behavior and performance of China's banking and insurance industries … of WTO accession on Chinese banking and insurance, and strategies for the prevention of future financial crises are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474023
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Performance of the Chinese insurance industry under economic reforms
Yao, Shujie - 2010
The Chinese insurance industry has experienced rapid development during the past decade. This original book is the … first English language study in the literature to address the efficiency issue of the Chinese insurance sector, and presents …ch. 1. Introduction -- ch. 2. China's insurance market - development issues -- ch. 3. Review of efficiency studies in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852093
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Blockchain + antitrust : the decentralization formula
Schrepel, Thibault - 2021
Contents: Preface -- Introduction: The decentralization -- Part 1 a common ambition -- 1. Blockchain: From ideology to implementation -- 2. Blockchain's toolbox -- 3. Blockchain and darwin -- 4. Decentralization? -- 5. Comes antitrust: The paradox -- Part 2 best frenemies? -- 6. The theory of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012704219
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Evolution of the corporation in the United States : from social control to financialization
Atkinson, Glen; Hake, Eric R.; Paschall, Stephen P. - 2021
Contents: 1. Financialization and the corporation in the twenty-first century -- 2. Capitalist development -- 3. Widening of the market and the transition from scarcity to abundance -- 4. Role of the corporation -- 5. Failure of federal policy to achieve social control -- 6. Corporations and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012487423
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Academic spin-offs and technology transfer in Europe : best practices and breakthrough models
De Cleyn, Sven H. (contributor); Festel, Gunter (contributor) - 2016
Introduction: what is the current state of knowledge transfer at research institutions in Europe, what are the main challenges and why does it matter? / Sven H. De Cleyn and Gunter Festel -- Part I shaping the ecosystem -- 1. I3P as university business incubator - a dual mission in technology...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419818
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The Elgar companion to Ronald H. Coase
Ménard, Claude, 1944- (contributor);  … - 2016
Ronald H. Coase, one of the most innovative and provocative economists of the twentieth century, has had a lasting influence in economics, law and economics, organization theory, management and political science. In this comprehensive Companion, 31 leading economists, social scientists and legal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419854
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Law and economics from an evolutionary perspective
Atkinson, Glen W. - 2016
1. Evolutionary method in law and economics -- 2. Causes and consequences of the widening of the market: a case of cumulative economic evolution -- 3. The corporate form and the state -- 4. Interstate commerce and state regulation of business -- 5. Interstate commerce and federal regulation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419870
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Elgar introduction to organizational discourse analysis
Berti, Marco - 2017
Contents: Introduction: the aim and structure of the book -- 1. Language and organization -- 2. The discourse of 'organizational discourse -- 3. The power of metaphors -- 4. Discourse as a map -- 5. Discourse as organizing -- 6. Discource as mask: silence, emptiness and ambiguity in discourse --...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419917
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The learning region : foundations, state of the art, future
Rutten, Roel (contributor); Boekema, Frans (contributor) - 2007
The aim of this book is to present a much-needed conceptualization of 'the learning region'. The editors scrutinize key concepts and issues surrounding this phenomenon, which are then discussed in the context of recent literature. This unique conceptualization of the learning region presents a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419966