This definitive selection of Professor Malliaris’s work in the area of futures markets provides a comprehensive analysis of the field. He examines the behaviour of futures prices, investigates random walks versus chaotic dynamics, researches the relationships between agricultural prices,...

This seminal reference tool provides a detailed chronological account of the development of European integration from the fragmentation at the end of the Second World War to the launch of the Euro on 31st December 1998. It offers a descriptive summary of important events, measures, arrangements,...

This timely book provides an innovative examination of financial integration in the European Union – an issue that has become of paramount importance in view of the commencement of European Economic and Monetary Union.

This book provides coherent theoretical and empirical analysis of firms’ investment and financing decisions. It assesses the role of uncertainty, financial imperfections, corporate governance and taxation. Evidence is obtained using several unique and high quality microeconomic data-sets,...

The World Economy in Transition brings together thoughts, arguments and analyses by some of the world’s leading economists on domestic and international monetary issues of foremost current concern.

The essays explore the forces in academic institutions that have led economics to its current position, as well as the implications of the lost art for the economics profession and its future. In the end, the author is positive about the future of the profession, and predicts that in 2050 it...

This collection of essays examines the methodological problems confronting economists in the face of two major developments in the second half of the twentieth century. The first is the vast increase in the number and variety of writings on the methodology or ‘philosophy’ of economics,...

Since the celebration of the bicentenary of The Wealth of Nations, the last twenty years have seen a burgeoning interest in Adam Smith’s contribution to economics. Jan Peil’s book aims to provide a new model for interpreting Smith’s contribution to economic science.

Capitalism in a Mature Economy charts the development of the City as the undisputed financial centre of the world in the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries, reflecting Britain’s dominant position in the world economy. The book focuses on four inter-related themes: the...

The forecasting of financial markets has engaged the attention of market professionals and academic economists and statisticians for many years, and has also attracted the interest of numerous ‘amateur’ investors. This book brings together key papers in this wide field. After considering...