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Haliassos, Michael - 2015

Study' -- John Y. Campbell and João F. Cocco (2003), 'Household Risk Management and Optimal Mortgage Choice' -- João F …' -- Atif Mian and Amir Sufi (2009), 'The Consequences of Mortgage Credit Expansion: Evidence from the U.S. Mortgage Default … Mortgage Defaults' -- Luigi Guiso, Paola Sapienza and Luigi Zingales (2013), 'The Determinants of Attitudes Toward Strategic …

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

Lewis, Mervyn - 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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Research handbook of international and comparative perspectives on diversity management

Klarsfeld, Alain; Ng, Eddy S.; Booysen, Lize; … - 2016

and Stella Nkomo -- 6. A comparison of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer rights and politics in South Africa … and the USA / Lize Booysen and Heather Wishik -- 7. What does being LGBT mean in the workplace? a comparison of LGBT …

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Economic reform in Asia : China, India, and Japan

Hsu, Sara - 2016

1. Introduction to development in China, India and Japan -- 2. Development theory -- 3. An Asian leader : Japan's development trajectory -- 4. The waking giant : China's development trajectory -- 5. Gradual growth : India's development trajectory -- 6. Poverty and inequality in China, India and...

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Government, innovation, and technology policy : an international comparative analysis

Mani, Sunil - 2002

1. Innovation policies in a globalised world -- 2. The Japanese model of low government intervention -- 3. The South Korean model of increasing privatisation of industrial R&D -- 4. The Singaporean model of increasing government intervention -- 5. The Malaysian experience -- 6. The South African...

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Public enterprise revisited : a closer look at the 1954-79 UK labour productivity record

Iordanoglou, Chrisafis H. - 2001

The book compares the 1954-79 labour productivity record of 5 expanding public sector industries to that of 24 expanding, capital intensive, mass-production industries in the British private sector. The author shows that the public sector industries' labour productivity growth was significantly...

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Employment relations and national culture : continuity and change in the age of globalisation

Pot, Ferrie - 2000

Historically, alternative models of the employment relationship have developed across culturally diverse nation states. However, the trend towards globalization incorporates a powerful force towards an international uniformity of employment relations. Underlying the issues addressed in this book...

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Purchasing power parities of currencies : recent advances in methods and applications

Prasada Rao, D. S. (ed.) - 2009

This up-to-date book demonstrates how the purchasing power parities (PPPs) of currencies are being increasingly used in place of exchange rates for a variety of purposes. These include: comparisons of real income, measurements of global inequality and poverty, calculation of the human...

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Economic reform in China and India : development experience in a comparative perspective

Chai, Joseph C. H. - 2006

Recent acceleration of the Indian economic growth rate from 6 to 8 per cent has sparked worldwide speculation that India is about to catch up with China and become another Asian miracle economy. Economic Reform in China and India examines this prospect, reviewing the development strategies...

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Handbook of Islamic banking

Hassan, M. Kabir (contributor); Lewis, Mervyn (contributor) - 2007

The handbook of Islamic banking comprises 25 studies by leading international experts on Islamic banking and finance specially commissioned to analyse the various debates and the current state of play in the field. This comprehensive handbook provides a succinct analysis of the workings of...

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