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"This Handbook collects a set of academic and accessible chapters to address three questions: What should real estate economists know about macroeconomics? What should macroeconomists know about real estate? What should readers know about the interaction between real estate and macroeconomics?...
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The historic link between output (GDP) growth and employment has weakened. Since there is no quantitively verifiable economic theory to explain past growth, this unique book explores the fundamental relationship between thermodynamics (physical work) and economics
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GRANGER, Clive W.J. and Oskar MORGENSTERN (1970), Predictability of Stock Market Prices, Lexington: Heath. -- GRANGER …), Evaluating Density Forecasts with Application to Financial Risk Management, International Economic Review, 39, 863-883. -- TAY …, Jeremy (2001), Testing Density Forecasts, with Applications to Risk Management, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics …
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Foresight has emerged as a key instrument for the development and implementation of research and innovation policy. The main focus of activity has been at the national level. Governments have sought to set priorities, to build networks between science and industry and, in some cases, to change...
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This book investigates the relationships between rural poverty, risk, and development. Building upon the author's work … in the area, it summarises the contributions of recent theoretical and empirical work to our understanding of how risk … affects rural poverty levels in developing countries. In particular the book examines what we do and do not know about risk …
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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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Tamarkin (1998), 'Bettors Love Skewness, Not Risk, at the Horse Track', Journal of Political Economy, 106 (1), 205 … D. Hall (1988), 'An Exception to the Risk Preference Anomaly', Journal of Business, 61 (3), July, 337-46 -- Michael Cain …-mutuel Games', Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 8 (3), 309-17 -- Charles T. Clotfelter and Philip J. Cook (1991), 'Lotteries in the …
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There is a broad range of literature on the economics of insurance and risk management. This timely publication … theory to many different insurance markets. It also offers important insights into the factors influencing corporate risk … management decisions, and the theoretical underpinnings for why corporations with well-diversified shareholders would reduce risk …
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academic research articles one should know in risk measurement and management. Through his central position in financial … Diebold's fascinating compilation summarizes the history of risk management research, focussing on research prior to the … involved in risk management, both in academia and in industry.'--Andrew Lo, MIT Sloan Management, US. This authoritative volume …
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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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