National pride is widely considered as a key indicator of the intensity of national identity. In a globalised world, how is national pride conceived in different cultural and national contexts? Using the national identity surveys conducted by the International Social Survey Programme in 2003,...

Books reviewed: The European Central Bank: The New European Leviathan, by D. Howarth and P. Loedel The European System of Central Banks: An Autonomous Actor? The Quest for an Institutional Balance in EMU, by B. Dutzler The Law of the European Central Bank, by C. Zilioli and M. Selmayr Europe in...

In this study, we perform a novel analysis of the 2015 financial bubble in the Chinese stock market by calibrating the Log Periodic Power Law Singularity (LPPLS) model to two important Chinese stock indices, SSEC and SZSC, from early 2014 to June 2015. The back tests of the 2015 Chinese stock...

We applied the Log-periodic power law singularity (LPPLS) methodology to analyze the performances of the 10 major global stock market indexes from both developed and emergent stock markets in the 2020 global stock market. The results show that the crashes for the 7 indexes: SP500, DJIA, NASDAQ,...

Continuing concerns over air quality have prompted calls for governmental targeting of alternative fuels. This paper uses methanol targeting as an example to address the role for public policy in terms of underlying theory and policy options. The paper shows that mandates promoting a transition...

The promise of technology and the need for caution in its application were the topics of the Seminar on Education in the Information Age held in Cartagena, Colombia on July 1997, sponsored by the IDB and the Global Information Infrastructure Commission. This book brings together the experience...

With the increasingly fierce market competition and rapid development of information technology, as a new organisation, virtual enterprise (VE) emerges from the business process of single enterprise. Service composition, which can realise the added value of service, is the core to implement a...