This book provides the essential mathematical tools for economics majors transitioning to upper-level courses. It emphasizes intuition over technical proofs, drawing on familiar examples from introductory economics to explain immediately useful concepts.
Advances in Monetary Policy Design
Simple-sum monetary indexes can be misleading. This book outlines the methods for constructing superior Divisia indexes, designed to accurately measure liquidity. It is the first to publish Divisia-based money supply indexes for the GCC countries.
Applied Social Sciences
An interdisciplinary collection of studies tackling key economic and political challenges, from public finance to cultural heritage. Bridging theory and practice, it offers vital insights for professionals and interested readers alike.
Constraints and Driving Forces in Economic Systems
The various contributions to this volume have as their central point the forces driving development and the constraints hindering progress in a variety of economic systems and subsystems.
A key resource for BI and CRM students and practitioners, this book provides practical guidance on implementing ERP and BI solutions for real-world strategic alignment. It also introduces the innovative “BI Psychology Adoption Model”.
Dealing with Econometrics
A practical guide to the fundamentals of econometrics. Learn the statistical tools to analyse cross-sectional data and evaluate socio-economic relationships. It features theoretical summaries, practical exercises with real-world data, and solutions using Excel or Gretl.
Economics and Politics in the Robotic Age
This book shows that the development of AI and robotics is a natural consequence of human history. It explains how this new robotic age will reshape our economy and society, and how individuals, firms, and governments can prepare for the future.
Emerging Water Insecurity in India
This book investigates India’s water crisis, focusing on Punjab. It explores the use and abuse of groundwater, revealing its virtual exportation. It examines water governance, offering lessons for all regions grappling with water scarcity and sustainable development.
This volume analyses the economies of Asia, Central Asia, and the Balkans. It explores their transition towards a market economy and global integration, covering topics like economic growth, international trade and finance, labor markets, and energy sectors.
This book explores how persistent states of underdevelopment occur in strategic environments in which players are imitative rather than fully rational. It explains this form of coordination failure as a contest between competing economic agents.
Integrated Marketing Communication
A valuable resource for students, academics, and practitioners of integrated marketing communication (IMC). It details the principles and practices of IMC before presenting a step-by-step process for preparing and executing a plan for any given brand.
Issues and Challenges in Trade
This book is a study of the issues and inter-linkages concerning trade, environment and sustainability. It suggests approaches for understanding their complexities in order to achieve balanced economic development, international cooperation and policy coherence.
Mechanism Design for Public Goods and Environmental Externalities
This book discusses crucial environmental problems, like global warming and nuclear disasters, by applying the unique Gorman-Lancaster-Sen’s approach. It provides a new way of thinking about the environment as a public good for students, professors, and policy makers alike.
Open Innovation Dynamics
This book expands open innovation from a static strategic idea to a dynamic principle. It explores underexplored aspects of the concept, including culture, collective intelligence, and its connection to the micro- and macro-dynamics of economics.
The rise of the sharing economy is disrupting industries and challenging institutions. This volume brings together research from a wide variety of disciplines, providing a coherent and comprehensive overview of this major global phenomenon.
Rehabilitating Heckscher-Ohlin
Comparative advantage, the cornerstone of international trade, lacks a theory consistent with the data. This book rehabilitates the popular but rejected Heckscher-Ohlin model by endogenizing technology and focusing on natural resources within a framework of vertical trade.
Does science matter in economics? This volume answers in the negative. It is argued that science simply doesn’t matter in economics, has never mattered and will probably never matter. Instead, the field has redefined the laws of physics and psychology to carve out its own set.
This book assesses the economic, social, and environmental sustainability of farming enterprises, focusing on Bulgarian farms under the EU CAP. It identifies crucial factors and perspectives for improving sustainability, appealing to researchers, farmers, and policy-makers.
The Disclosure and Assurance of Corporate Social Responsibility
These essays examine new trends in sustainability performance and reporting. They provide theory and evidence on voluntary disclosure and external assurance, making this book a key resource for companies, managers, shareholders, and all related stakeholders.