This collection of peer-reviewed studies offers deep insight into the financial and banking sectors of new EU-member countries. Through original research, it compares their development to established countries and explores their prospective integration into the EMU.
The Shape of the East Asian Economy to Come
The Asian economic crisis challenged conventional wisdom, giving impetus to an “East Asian economic community.” Will this new paradigm cultivate the fruits of past experience, or is it an effort to escape the free market? This volume sheds light on the arguments.
This volume joins authors from academia and practice to offer a multiplicity of issues and methodology in finance. It presents applied and theoretical work on banking, market microstructure, risk, and portfolio selection, useful for both practice and research.
EU and the Balkans
In the Balkans, integration and disintegration are the two poles of discourse. While joining the EU is seen as a solution to conflict, it may be a catalyst for further disintegration. This book assesses if EU integration fosters or discourages unity.
“Crouching Tiger”
The Irish software industry faces new challenges from competitors like India. This volume explores attitudes towards software process quality in both nations, comparing their implementation and concluding with recommendations to support Irish competitiveness.
This book identifies effects of the European monetary integration on the financial systems of euro area member countries. It presents a rich collection of original studies by scholars, central bankers, and practitioners on the most relevant issues debated today.
Applying an innovation systems approach, this book offers a sweeping history of South Africa’s economy from 1916 to the post-apartheid era, opening up a novel engagement with the complex phenomenon of apartheid, its genealogy and its aftermath.
Post-Colonial Distances
This anthology compares popular music in Canada and Australia. Both post-colonial nations create commercial music in the shadow of the US and UK industries, and both have seen tremendous growth in the popular music of their indigenous and immigrant groups.
Watching Pages, Reading Pictures
While Italian cinema is known for Neo-Realism and Spaghetti Westerns, its crucial affair with literature is less familiar. This book explores this fruitful relationship through discussions of significant film adaptations that exemplify this alliance’s variety.
Eminent scholars and administrators analyze fiscal federalism, centre-state relations, and decentralization. This collection addresses growing fiscal stress and offers strategies for sustainability for national and sub-national governments in a globalized world.
Tools of Their Tools
This book explores communication technologies in American culture over 150 years. How has American society molded these technologies? How have they, in turn, shaped American history? Are we still, in the words of Thoreau, “tools of their tools”?
Africa, Transport and the Millennium Development Goals
This volume addresses heretofore ignored dimensions of transport in Africa—mobility issues of the urban poor, women and children, and issues of access to employment, education and health services, aligning transport with the MDGs for policymakers.
NeoLiberal Scotland
Contrary to popular belief, neoliberalism has become institutionalised in Scotland. This book details for the first time its negative effects on society and democracy, and serves as a case study of neoliberalism in a “stateless nation” of the West.
This book provides researchers the understandings needed to develop scientifically validated internet survey methods. To avoid ‘Garbage In, Garbage Out,’ it is essential to support best practices in presentation, sampling, data collection, and analysis.
This book investigates how Estonia, Poland and Latvia comply with the EU’s free movement of capital. It compares their laws, analyzes the link between national restrictions and cross-border capital flows, and reports the views of affected business executives.
Eelam Online
This book details how the internet helps create political identities among the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora. It traces their online engagement in the struggle for a homeland, exploring how communication technologies shape the very “imagination” of a nation.
Computer Processing of Sanskrit Nominal Inflections
Based on the reverse engineering of Panini’s Sanskrit Grammar, this work presents studies in computational linguistics and NLP for parsing Sanskrit nominal inflections. Parsing inflections is the first basic step toward complete analysis for any larger system.
Judicial Activism in Bangladesh
This book reframes judicial activism as a balance between over-assertion and passivity. With particular reference to Bangladesh, it reveals judicial under-activism and argues that pragmatic intervention is critical for good governance and social justice.
Peaceful Surrender
In the 20th century, Spain experienced one of Europe’s most intense processes of rural depopulation. This book explains how the adaptive strategies of rural populations led to a “peaceful surrender” of traditional society, a view distanced from simple nostalgia.
Amid rapid economic and political change, this volume investigates the impact of global reality and EU integration on the Balkan and Black Sea countries, and explores the possibilities and perspectives for their economies.