1 Introduction: Overview -- 2 Japan's Industrial Structure: Forced to Change (1973–1982) -- 3 The global responsibilities of an economic superpower (1981–1992) -- 4 Long-Term Depression and Economic Structural Reform (1991–2000) -- 5 Conclusion: The Emergence of a Twenty-First-Century...

Part I: Econometrics of Financial Markets -- Information Asymmetry, Liquidity and the Dynamic Volume-Return Relation in Panel Data Analysis -- Density forecasts of emerging markets’ exchange rates using Monte Carlo simulation with regime switching -- Determination of the own funds requirements...

Introduction -- A Market Approach -- Global Development and Climate Change: A Game Theory Approach -- On the Edge of Climate Change: In a Search of an Adequate Agent-Based Methodology to Model Environmental Dynamics -- Greenhouse Gas, Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Economic Growth: Empirical...