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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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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
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Fiscal policy and environmental welfare : modelling interjurisdictional competition
Bayındır-Upmann, Thorsten - 1998 - Revised version of the author's thesis
In this innovative book the author examines the link between environmental, trade and industrial policies within an interregional setting. He models how regional governments, using tax rates on real capital and pollutant emissions, determine policies to favour their residents in terms of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473840
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The history of economic analysis : selected essays
Creedy, John - 1998
This book brings together John Creedy's most important essays on the history of economic analysis. The book contributes to our understanding of the development of economics by looking at the subject and some of its major players including Pareto, Edgeworth, Marshall and Wicksell, from an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473846
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Economics, welfare policy, and the history of economic thought : essays in honour of Arnold Heertje
Fase, M. M. G. (ed.); Kanning, W. (ed.);  … - 1999
theory and policy. In particular, they follow in the tradition of his work on oligopoly and price theory, welfare theory and … policy, growth theory, environmental economics, technical change and the history of economic thought and methodology. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473888
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Contingent valuation and endangered species : methodological issues and applications
Jakobsson, Kristin M.; Dragun, Andrew K. - 1996
Contingent Valuation and Endangered Species provides a comprehensive and rigorous examination of the contingent valuation method as applied to the profound social problem of biodiversity conservation. The contingent valuation method allows the explicit identification and valuation of the non-use...
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Handbook of research in international human resource management
Stahl, Günter K. (contributor);  … - 2006
'Handbook of Research in International Human Resource Management represents a welcome contribution of IHRM literature and will be required readings for both novices and veteran researchers.' - Dana B. Minbaeva, British Journal of Industrial Relations ' ... a rich array of contributors including...
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The economics of corporate governance and mergers
Yurtoglu, B. Burcin (contributor); Gugler, Klaus (contributor) - 2008
efficiency : theory, empirical evidence, and competition policy in Japan / Hiroyuki Odagiri -- ch. 10. UK corporate governance … and takeover performance / Andy Cosh, Paul Guest and Alan Hughes -- ch. 11. Mergers and alliances in pharmaceuticals …
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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 … cooperation -- 4. The edge of the jungle -- 5. Social interaction without the state -- 6. towards a theory of the evolution of … : an American variant -- 13. Anarchism and the theory of power -- 14. Polycentrism and power -- 15. Reflections after three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851013
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Merger and acquisition strategies : how to create value
Dringoli, Angelo - 2016
providing a link between theory and practice. Building upon traditional theories and providing original and innovative analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419898