CSR and the New Frontiers of Business, Management and Enterprise: The New CSR Strategy in the Arctic -- Historical Background: CSR Timeline, Concepts, Frameworks and Theories -- The Relevance of CSR in a World in Transition: Contemporary Trends -- The Eight Arctic Nations and their Respective...

In previous research endeavours on national economic development, almost no studies exist on how regional confidence can influence its industrial and economic well-being. Therefore, this paper provides a cultural ecology parenthesis, which integrates climatic, geographic, and genetic factors to...

Using the theory of optimal local currency pricing, this paper constructs a structural equation to estimate the rate at which foreign producer prices pass through the local currency prices of imported goods in the U.S. This can be viewed as measuring exchange rate pass-through, in line with...

Banks in developing economies often face a mismatch in the currency denomination of their liabilities (foreign currency denominated debt) and assets (domestic currency loans to domestic borrowers). We study the effect of this mismatch on business cycles and monetary policy in a sticky-price,...

This paper examines empirically U.S. broad money demand emphasizing the role of financial market risk. We find that money demand rises with the liquidity risk of stock markets or the credit risk of corporate bond markets. After controlling for the effect of financial market risk, money demand...

Industrial ecology provides a consistent material and energetic description of human production and consumption processes in the larger context of environmental and socioeconomic change. The contributors to this book offer methodologies for such descriptions, focusing on the dynamics associated...