Liquidity and Asset Pricing
Explore the role of liquidity in asset pricing models, from risk premiums to market crises. This book empirically tests how augmented liquidity factors improve models and explains policy implications relevant to researchers, regulators, traders, and portfolio managers.
Digital Business Ecosystems in the Service Industry
This guide explores the transformative potential of Digital Business Ecosystems (DBEs) for the service industry. Combining theory with case studies from leaders like Amazon and Netflix, it offers actionable insights to reshape business models and achieve sustainable growth.
Political Economy of Financial Systems
Why did identical financial systems lead to contrasting outcomes in South Korea and India? This book argues that the efficiency of finance depends not just on its structure, but on the wider political-economic context and its relations with the market.
This book bridges economics and divinity, exploring how economic principles can be tools for spiritual growth. By examining material goods and free will, it reveals pathways to align with God’s will, transforming economics from a “dismal science” into a lens for the spiritual.
This title details several aspects of foreign direct investment (FDI) and their linkages to African economies. Based on stylized facts and rigorous analytical studies, it offers state-of-the-art analyses on FDI-related topics.
Publishers, Profits and Poverty
In 19th-century Bohemian Fleet Street, radical publishers campaigned for political reform while a market for sensational literature boomed. This book charts the lives of around 100 of these figures, highlighting new information about the forgotten pioneers of popular literature.
This book applies trusted statistical and analytical tools to aviation. It is for analysts, managers, and students who must extract actionable insights from large volumes of data. Readers are taught how to implement techniques using Microsoft Excel and Eviews software.
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.
Service Analytics and Management
This book covers key issues on service strategy, planning, design, and delivery. It explores service capacity management, resource planning, quality improvement, and the role of IT and Analytics. The text includes detailed cases for extensive class discussion.
Econometric Analysis
This book explores basic and advanced econometrics for students and researchers in business and economics. It offers a balanced presentation of fundamental and advanced methods, with practical examples of their effective application in solving real-life problems.
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.
A definitive guide to high-performance marine vehicles. This volume explores the design, resistance, powering, seakeeping, and maneuvering of monohulls, multihulls, hydrofoils, and more, through cutting-edge theoretical and numerical analysis.