Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Oil, Policy and Market Power -- Chapter 3: Looking at the Mirror: Early Days of the Oil Markets in the United States -- Chapter 4: From Competition to Monopoly -- Chapter 5: From Monopoly to Competition (Oil Markets Going Global) -- Chapter 6: Governments...

1. Prospects for China’s Economic Development During the 14TH Five-Year Plan Period -- 2.Prospects for China’s Energy Transition in a Carbon Neutrality Outlook by 2060 -- 3.Economic Growth and Energy Consumption: Four-dimensional Comparsion of Aggregate, Elasticity, Intensity and Structure...

1 Issues and New Business Trends in the International Trade of Secondhand Goods -- 2 Economic Impact of Imported Secondhand Agricultural Machinery in Rural Vietnam -- 3 International Trade of Used Trains: The Case of Japanese Used Rolling Stock in Indonesia -- 4 The Location Problem of...

National economies are linked through flows of capital and goods. This book addresses those linkages, analyzes their benefits for economic development, and evaluates a country’s opportunities to reap the best possible rewards by influencing the linkages. The book focuses on the role of product...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part I: Structure of the Wine Sectors Worldwide -- Chapter 2: The French Wine Industry -- Chapter 3: The Italian Wine Industry -- Chapter 4: The Spanish Wine Industry -- Chapter 5: The US Wine Industry -- Chapter 6: The Australian Wine Industry -- Chapter 7: The...

1. China and its New Position in the World Economy -- 2.China's Economic Growth and its Main Sources -- 3. The Growing Importance of China in Global Trade -- 4. FDI as a Driving Force of China's Expansion -- 5. The Importance of the Energy Sector in China's Growth Strategy -- Quo Vadis China

1. Emerging Risks: An Overview; Thomas Walker, Dieter Gramlich, Kalima Vico, and Adele Dumont-Bergeron -- Part I. Ecological Risks -- 2. Climate Change: Macroeconomic Impact and Implications for Monetary Policy; Sandra Batten, Rhiannon Sowerbutts, and Misa Tanaka -- 3. Global Warming and Extreme...

Introduction -- Trade potential and bottlenecks in East Africa: a gravity approach -- Trade Complementarities between Europe and Tanzania -- The Effect of the tripartite free trade area on trade flow in Southern and Eastern Africa -- Investment climate and international integration of firms in...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Are Current Policies on Track to Eliminate Poverty? -- Chapter 3. How Mainstream Economics Works -- Chapter 4. Basic Principles to Understand Macroeconomics -- Chapter 5. Markets Alone Make No Development -- Chapter 6. Developing Countries in Global...

Convergence to the Centre -- Financial Markets: Banks Capital Markets -- Firm Size, Productivity, EU-Funds and Corruption -- Labour Markets: Structural Characteristics and the Impact of Two Crises -- Transport and Mobility -- Monetary, Macroprudential, and Fiscal Policy -- Green Economy: Energy,...