This monograph explores the impact of managers’ psychological profiles and life experiences on their financial decisions; as it highlights, having insights into managers’ psychology is essential to understanding their choices and predicting decisions made by competing firms.
This book evaluates financial behaviour in the new economy. As changing technology alters consumer habits, businesses must use innovative methods to survive tough competition and influence financial decisions.
The Behavioural Economics of Belarus
A unique study of Belarus, a country “trapped in transition” from state capitalism to a market economy. This book explains how economic decisions are made and proves that to boost economic reforms, the government needs the support of the high-income public.
This book explores the interdependence between environment and economics, searching for solutions to environmental problems. It provides an overview of the field with case studies and policies, making it a useful introduction for students, teachers, and academicians.
CARICOM nations are among the first affected by climate change, despite low emissions. This book explores policy actions they can implement to build resilience in the post-Paris Agreement era, covering climate finance, coastal adaptation, and loss and damage.
This volume explores the latest advances in behavioural finance. Using insights from psychology to better understand the decisions made by investors and managers, it sheds new light on several financial puzzles.
This collection of annotated essays discusses the relevance of evolving science to public discourse about climate change. The essays confront organized denial and disinformation, building support for informed decisions on how to adapt to and abate climate risks.
This book explores the history of Econophysics for the lay-reader. It traces the emergence of the field, from the philosophers and scientists who contributed, to the institutions, books, and conferences that nurtured the subject.
Light-Duty Vehicle Carbon Emission Standards and the Rebound Effect
This book analyzes Australia’s proposed light vehicle fuel efficiency standards, assessing their economic and environmental impacts. It investigates the rebound effect to determine if efficiency gains truly reduce energy consumption, offering crucial insights for climate policy.
This book analyzes the financial, economic, educational, and technological drivers of environmental sustainability from a global perspective. It presents findings and recommendations useful for researchers and policy-makers to advance sustainable development.
The Subprime Crisis and Its Impact on Financial and Managerial Environments
Unpacking the 2008 global financial crisis, this book reveals its lasting impacts and argues for a multinational solution to safeguard the international banking system.
Strategic Decisions in Directed Networks
Do theoretical models account for the decisions of network users? Drawing on two decades of research in transportation science and behavioral economics, this book uses laboratory experiments to test the validity of these models and finds that, with some qualifications, they do.
Global Climate Change, Environment and Energy
This book covers both sides of the debate on climate change, environment and energy. Articles discuss these issues from a multidimensional perspective, elaborating upon their interdependence and the global challenges and opportunities for sustainability.
This book explores sustainable livelihood as a key to development beyond mere poverty reduction. It examines strategies for enhancing assets, covering socio-developmental aspects, natural resources, the farm and non-farm sectors, and gender.
Economic Behaviour
A selection of investigations that deal with economic behaviour are presented here, both at the macro and micro level. The chapters give some well-defined aspects and build on a new understanding of decision-making and economic development based on ethics and knowledge.
This book presents the financial performance of the shipping industry since 1896, tracking how fortunes were made and lost through market cycles. It examines the underlying causes that moved the market and evaluates when players got their speculative act right or badly wrong.
Principles of Sustainability Economics
Is economic development reachable on an exhausted planet? Greener technologies may help, but we are far off track due to inappropriate institutions and adverse incentives. This book explains why, using core economic principles to identify the Gordian knots of sustainability.