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Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Why Islamic finance? -- 2. Islamic law -- 3. The Islamic economy -- 4. Forms of Islamic finance -- 5. Islamic banks -- 6. Special sectors -- 7. Public finance, monetary policy and banking supervision -- 8. A tentative verdict and a question mark --...
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We study capital-skill complementarity in a multi-sector framework featuring firm-specific, multi-factor production functions and allowing for firm-specific factor-price wedges. We characterize the elasticity of the skill premium to the price of capital equipment in terms of firm-level...
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, Chapter 3, London, UK and New York, NY, USA: St. Martin's Press, 47-79 -- 15. Lorraine Eden (1985), 'The Microeconomics of …), Multinationals and Transfer Pricing, Chapter 5, London, UK and New York, NY, USA: St. Martin's Press, 98-116 -- 35. Harry Grubert …), Multinationals and Transfer Pricing, Chapter 10, London, UK and New York, NY, USA: St. Martin's Press, 193-211 -- 45. Jean …
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Contents: 1. Setting the scene -- 2. From cultural heritage to local development -- 3. Creativity: definitions and measures -- 4. A new conceptual framework for the definition and measurement of creativity -- 5. From cultural heritage to creativity -- 6. From creativity to socio-economic...
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Contents: Introduction / Louis-Philippe Rochon and Virginie Monvoisin -- Part I: Post-Keynesian views on finance and financialization -- 1. Measuring finance for the economy and finance for finance / Marcello Spanò -- 2. Economic limits of the originate to distribute model of banking / Óscar...
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Contents: 1. Introduction: Decentralization and parties -- 2: Building the theory: Majoritarian electoral systems and party integration -- 3: Building the theory: Majoritarian electoral systems and non-integrated parties -- 4: Building the theory: Proportional representation and closed party...
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Contents: 1. Introduction -- Part I Counterfactual evaluation method -- 2. The theory and practice of public-sector r&d economic impact analysis -- 3. An economic evaluation of the Baldrige national quality program -- 4. On the social value of quality: an economic evaluation of the Baldrige...
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Advances in automation for electronic commerce require improved understanding and formalization of the objects, processes, and policies of commerce itself. These include business objects such as bills of lading and contracts, processes such as workflows and trade procedures, and policies...
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