1. Local Public Finance and Economics – Theory and the Practice: An Introductory Overview -- 2. Expenditures and Revenue Assignment: Principles -- 3. Expenditure and Revenue Assignment: Practices -- 4. Structural Design -- 5. Expenditure and Service Delivery: Core Services and Regulation -- 6....

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,...

This open access book gives a concise introduction to the practical implementation of monetary policy by modern central banks. It describes the conventional instruments used in advanced economies and the unconventional instruments that have been widely adopted since the financial crisis of...

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...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Cross-Border Spillover Modelling, Concepts of “Geopolitical Risk” And “Transition Economies”; And The 2010-2020 Financial Stability Recommendations By The IMF, G20/G30 And The EU -- Chapter 3. Some Constitutional Law, Competition Law & Economic...

Foreword -- Part I Theoretical Framework of Climate Change Economics -- Chapter 1. Complexity of Climate Change as a Subject in Economics -- Chapter 2. A Critique of Conventional Economic Approaches to Climate Change -- Chapter 3. Climate as a Factor of Productivity -- Chapter 4. A Welfare...

Chapter 1. Market-Timing Skills in the Aftermath of COVID-19 Outbreak: Evidence from Islamic Funds -- Chapter 2. The Relationship Between US Stock, Commodity and Virtual Markets During COVID-19 Forced Crisis -- Chapter 3. Towards a Better Comprehension of Tourism Crisis in the Era of Covid-19 --...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part 1. What we have learned from the interviews -- Chapter 2. The goal, context, and methods behind our case studies -- Chapter 3. What do our case studies tell us? -- Part 2. New questions the interviews have raised -- Chapter 4. The decision to implement UBI...