This book suggests that price volatility and speculation in the oil market originate from a decades-long process of financialisation. The author contradicts mainstream critical accounts of the market that typically invoke the notion of a global oil shortage and so-called ‘peak oil’...

1 Introductory Remarks: What’s behind the Recent Oil Price Drop? Naoyuki Yoshino and Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary -- 2 Impact of Expansionary Monetary Policy on Crude Oil Prices Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary and Naoyuki Yoshino -- 3 Which Side of the Economy Is Affected More by Oil Prices: Supply or...

This book examines India's new economy - its strengths, weaknesses and potential. The book covers three key areas of growth in India's economy - the IT (information technology) sector, export trade (with its externality effects) and the financial sector (in particular, banking reforms).

The dynamics of industry growth, technology and globalization have a dramatic impact on the current economic growth of nations, significantly changing the market structure and world trade, and challenging the competitive equilibrium and their guiding principles. In the world of innovations and...

Production workers continue to be an important group in the economy. Two Centuries of Compensation for U.S. Production Workers in Manufacturing is the first long-run annual series of average hourly compensation for U.S. production workers in manufacturing. Officer reviews both data sources and...

This book provides a historical evaluation of banking reforms and structural changes in India over the past 25 years. Chapters cover issues in consolidation and restructuring, competition and concentration, performance evaluation in terms of cost efficiency and productivity, profitability,...

Charakteristika und Aufgaben nachhaltiger Wertschöpfungsnetzwerke -- Stoffstrombasierte Modellierung und Bewertung nachhaltiger Wertschöpfungsnetzwerke -- Lenkungssystem (Umwelt-)Politik -- Produktentwicklung -- Produktion -- Nutzung -- Entsorgung -- Koordination nachhaltiger...

One of the major challenges for European governments is to solve the dilemma of increasing the security and reducing fraud in international trade, while at the same time reducing the administrative burden for commercial as well as public administration organisations. To address these conflicting...

Ganzheitliche Analysen von Produktionssystemen -- Resource Coordination and Firm Performance: A System Dynamics View* -- Plädoyer für Langfristorientierung -- Komplexität, Flexibilität und Erfolg als Herausforderungen marktorientierter Fertigungsstrategien -- Implementierungsfelder...