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Household finance
Haliassos, Michael - 2015
Since its emergence in the 1980s, the subject of Household Finance has rapidly grown into a critical area of economic … focus. Research, policy and practitioner interest has increased as household portfolios have become more complicated in … the editor, Household Finance brings together the most essential papers on the subject together in a comprehensive three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852197
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473918
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Pricing in road transport : a multi-disciplinary perspective
Verhoef, E. T. (contributor) - 2008
Transport pricing is high on the political agenda throughout the world, but as the authors illustrate, governments seeking to implement this often face challenging questions and significant barriers. The associated policy and research questions cannot always be addressed adequately from a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850667
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Modelling indirect taxes and tax reform
Creedy, John - 1999
Indirect taxes have become an increasingly important revenue-raising tool for governments in developed countries. In this book, John Creedy applies his wealth of experience and expertise to the analysis of indirect taxes and, in particular, concentrates on the modelling of indirect tax reform...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473900
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Feminist economics
Benería, Lourdes - 2011
articles shows how feminist economics has illuminated our understanding of topics such as household decision-making, the care … Service " Institutional Cultures and the Evolution of Paid Household Work', Feminist Economics, 3 (2), July, 1-27 -- Anita … Agarwal (1997), ' "Bargaining " and Gender Relations: Within and Beyond the Household', Feminist Economics, 3 (1), March, 1 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852216