House price bubbles, and their aftermath, have become a focus of macro-economic policy concern in most developed countries. This book elucidates the two-way relationship between house-price fluctuations and economic fundamentals. Housing has many features which make it distinct from other...

Financial crises, often of an apparently contagious nature, have become more frequent over the last two decades than they were previously. The monetary authorities, especially central banks, and, in the international context, the International Monetary Fund, have had to decide how to handle...

The paper undertakes a holistic observation of the change to the management control system in a Chinese SOE. Integrating original institutional economics (OIE) and new-institutional sociology (NIS) perspectives, the longitudinal case study contributes to management accounting change literature...