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Investment, capital market imperfections, and uncertainty : theory and empirical results
Lensink, Robert; Bo, Hong; Sterken, Elmer - 2001
This book presents an up-to-date overview of the theory as well as the empirics of the relationship between investment …, the authors discuss both traditional investment models with uncertainty and the more modern option based models. They … present an overview of empirical results of the modelling of investment under uncertainty. In these examples, the effects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473824
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Euro-Pacific investment and trade : strategies and structural interdependencies
Boyd, Gavin (ed.); Rugman, Alan M. (ed.) - 1997
This important book - written by leading scholars in international business - critically reviews the activities of European and Pacific international firms. Transformations of markets and national economic systems associated with the activities of these corporations are posing many issues of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473755
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Financial fragility and investment in the capitalist economy
Ferri, Piero (contributor); Bellofiore, Riccardo (contributor) - 2001
Hyman Minsky is renowned for his theoretical and empirical investigation of the capitalist economy. In this book, a distinguished group of contributors provides an authoritative account of his contribution to the analysis of capitalism and, more particularly, to the fields of monetary and post...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850705
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Finance, investment, and macroeconomics : the neoclassical and a post Keynesian solution
Gordon, Myron J. - 1994
In Finance, Investment and Macroeconomics, Myron J. Gordon advances a theory of finance and investment under … established that both the short-run and long-run performance of a capitalist system depend upon investment, but he failed to … arrive at an alternative to the neoclassical theory of investment. Professor Gordon demonstrates that the extension of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473927
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Globalization and productivity
Greenaway, David (contributor); Görg, Holger (contributor);  … - 2008
Investment Increase the Productivity of Domestic Firms? In Search of Spillovers through Backward Linkages', American Economic … globalization and productivity growth. The editors' careful selection includes articles that focus on the impact of globalization on … aggregate productivity, openness, international technology diffusion, and trade adjustment and productivity growth. Other topics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852225
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Multinational enterprises and host economies
Meyer, Klaus E. (contributor) - 2008
-18 -- Xiaming Liu, Pamela Siler, Chengqi Wang and Yingqi Wei (2000), 'Productivity Spillovers From Foreign Direct Investment … Javorcik (2004), 'Does Foreign Direct Investment Increase the Productivity of Domestic Firms? In Search of Spillovers Through … Girma (2003), 'Regional Foreign Direct Investment and Wage Spillovers: Plant Level Evidence from the UK Electronics Industry …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852248
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Human capital, trade, and public policy in rapidly growing economies : from theory to empirics
Boldrin, Michele (ed.); Chen, Been-Lon (ed.); Wang, Ping (ed.) - International Conference on Economic Growth <Zhong yang … - 2004
Human Capital, Trade and Public Policy in Rapidly Growing Economies argues that only two centuries ago, no society had ever enjoyed sustained growth in living standards. The contributors to this book aim to discover why the world today exhibits a predilection for perpetual self-improvement. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474031
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Market failure or success : the new debate
Crampton, Eric (contributor); Cowen, Tyler (contributor) - 2002
Recent years have seen the development of new theories of market failure based on asymmetric information and network effects. According to the new paradigm, we can expect substantial failure in the markets for labor, credit, insurance, software, new technologies and even used cars, to give but a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850972
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Anarchy, state and public choice
Stringham, Edward (contributor) - 2005
The book reprints the main articles from the 1972 volume Explorations in the Theory of Anarchy, and contains a response to each chapter, as well as new comments by Gordon Tullock, James Buchanan, Jeffrey Rogers Hummel and Peter Boettke. The younger economists are notably less pessimistic about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851013
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The economics of social protection
Söderström, Lars - 2008
This book focuses on arrangements for redistributing consumption opportunities over the life cycle and for providing compensation for income losses or large expenditures due to reasons such as illness and unemployment. After extensive coverage of the nature of inequalities in income and wealth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851435