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New Developments in the Analysis of Market Structure

Stiglitz, Joseph E. (contributor); … - The MIT Press

These contributions discuss a number of important developments over the past decade in a newly established and important field of economics that have led to notable changes in views on governmental competition policies. They focus on the nature and role of competition and other determinants of...

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Regulation and Markets

Spulber, Daniel F. - The MIT Press

Regulation and Markets provides the up to date, integrated analysis of regulatory policies and the administrative process that is needed in today's field of regulation economics. The book takes a modern perspective, using the tools of industrial organization and game theory. It is the only...

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The Theory of Industrial Organization

Tirole, Jean - The MIT Press

The Theory of Industrial Organization is the first primary text to treat the new industrial organization at the advanced-undergraduate and graduate level. Rigorously analytical and filled with exercises coded to indicate level of difficulty, it provides a unified and modern treatment of the...

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Applied Computational Economics and Finance

Miranda, Mario J.; Fackler, Paul L. - The MIT Press

This book presents a variety of computational methods used to solve dynamic problems in economics and finance. It … analyses. The examples are drawn from a wide range of subspecialties of economics and finance, with particular emphasis on … problems in agricultural and resource economics, macroeconomics, and finance. The book also provides an extensive Web …

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An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets

MacKenzie, Donald - The MIT Press

In An Engine, Not a Camera, Donald MacKenzie argues that the emergence of modern economic theories of finance affected … theories that gave derivatives legitimacy and explained their complexities. MacKenzie examines the role played by finance … and the market turmoil that engulfed the hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management in 1998. He also looks at finance theory …

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Market Discipline Across Countries and Industries

Borio, Claudio (contributor); … - The MIT Press

The effectiveness of market discipline -- the strong built-in incentives that encourage banks and financial systems to operate soundly and efficiently -- commands much attention today, particularly in light of recent accounting scandals. As government discipline, in the form of regulation, seems...

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Intermediate Public Economics

Hindriks, Jean; Myles, Gareth D. - The MIT Press

but in its balance between public finance and public choice and its combination of theory and relevant empirical evidence …

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Economics After the Crisis: Objectives and Means

Turner, Adair - The MIT Press

The global economic crisis of 2008-2009 seemed a crisis not just of economic performance but also of the system’s underlying political ideology and economic theory. But a second Great Depression was averted, and the radical shift to New Deal-like economic policies predicted by some never took...

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Trade and Poverty: When the Third World Fell Behind

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - The MIT Press

Today's wide economic gap between the postindustrial countries of the West and the poorer countries of the third world is not new. Fifty years ago, the world economic order--two hundred years in the making--was already characterized by a vast difference in per capita income between rich and poor...

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Financial Modeling

Benninga, Simon - The MIT Press

previous editions, basic and advanced models in the areas of corporate finance, portfolio management, options, and bonds are …

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