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Greening the Budget regards the fundamental cause of environmental degradation as government and market failure and proposes the use of budgets as an instrument of environmental policy to rectify this problem. The book focuses on the elements of the public budget which currently affect the...
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research in the areas of market structure, sustainability and decision-making. It includes several contemporary topics, such as … environmental impact, and questions why decision makers often fail to tackle transport-related problems. Three of the key factors … decision making, detailing transport policy and attempts to change transport systems. Practical guidelines on how to …
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distributional preference as developed through public choice theory. This fine collection illustrates Harold M. Hochman's major …
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This seminal work advances beyond neoclassical economics to provide an integrated overview of economic decision making … developments in learning and game theory, transaction costs and evolutionary economics to provide new insights into economic and … managerial phenomena. The results are applied to different levels of decision-making, including decisions by individuals, taking …
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"Presenting innovative modelling approaches to the analysis of fiscal policy and government debt, this book moves beyond previous models that have relied upon the assumption that various age-specific rates and policy variables remain unchanged when it comes to generating government expenditures...
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Recently there has been a resurgence of interest in the study of optimal monetary policy under uncertainty. This book provides a thorough survey of the literature that has resulted from this renewed interest. The authors ground recent contributions on the 'science of monetary policy' in the...
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One of the unforeseen consequences of the WTO agreements has been controversy over risk. This volume explores aspects … of risk with special reference to the WTO, where national instruments to reduce risk may conflict with international … trade rules. The book is divided into sections dealing with: accounting for risk in trade agreements; risk and the WTO …
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Edition, McGraw-Hill. -- Lando, D. (2004), Credit Risk Modeling: Theory and Applications, Princeton University Press … Unknowable in Financial Risk Management: Measurement and Theory Advancing Practice, Chapter 1, Princeton, NJ: Princeton …-91 -- William F. Sharpe (1964), 'Capital Asset Prices: A Theory of Market Equilibrium under Conditions of Risk', Journal of Finance …
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This book presents an up-to-date overview of the theory as well as the empirics of the relationship between investment … investment theory, professionals in the financial sector and students of macroeconomics and finance. Investment, Capital Market …
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adding to the existing thought in this area, with insights from game theory, rational choice under uncertainty and new … exposition of the risk/return trade-off and how major capital investment decisions are made within firms. Topics studied include …
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