http://books.emeraldinsight.com/rss.asp Emerald Bookstore - Subject Browse en Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:00:00 GMT Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762311101 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762311101 The writings in this volume address various issues related to worker well-being, including employee compensation, job loss, disability, health, gender, education, contract negotiation and macroeconomic labour policy. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762310012 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762310012 Issues surrounding agriculture have always had pride of place among academic research in economic history. This volume reflects, both geographically and methodologically, the scope of cutting edge work being done in this area. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9781781903094 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9781781903094 The 30th Volume of Advances in Econometrics is in honor of the two individuals whose hard work has helped ensure thirty succesful years of the series, Thomas Fomby and R. Carter Hill. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762307135 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762307135 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9781559389754 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9781559389754 Discusses such topics as the global variation in financial ratios, trading costs of target firms around corporate takeovers, and economic activity measures in nonlinear asset pricing. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762303267 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762303267 Part of a series which focuses on advances in futures and options research, this title discusses a variety of topics in the field. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762308231 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762308231 Part of the "Advances in Applied Microeconomics" series, this volume contains 11 chapters, which cover theoretical and empirical contributions. It examines theoretical models of incomplete information; product innovations in services; and both advertising and product differentiation, including generic advertising, advertising bans and more. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780125199926 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780125199926 A collection of articles which offer an authoritative statement about economic growth and development in Africa. The articles cover the major influences on growth and development and their effects, as well as the significant or unique problems which have slowed or undermined African growth. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780444824813 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780444824813 This volume covers key issues lying at the intersection of the modern theory of industrial organization and of the more traditional agricultural economics: the organization of agriculture and its mechanisms; the extent of the market power in agri-food industries; the failures of agricultural markets; and the nature of government intervention. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762301300 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762301300 Setting out the reasons why empirical research and theory are at odds, this book suggests formulations of the relationship between environmental regulation and economic performance. It also presents related research using Southern California as a case study of economic performance in the context of increasingly stringent environmental controls. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762306350 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762306350 A correspondence from Clark to Giddings that covers the entire period from their first acquaintance in 1886 to Giddings' death in 1931. However, the majority of nearly 280 letters and notes is concentrated within the years 1886-1895 when the most important development of Clark's economic thought as a theoretical economist was accomplished. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780444513083 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780444513083 Deals with the investigation of the contemporary financial issues of the e-commerce market. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762301874 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762301874 This volume of Advances in Econometrics looks at applying maximum entropy to econometric problems and consists of two sections: the first section contains papers developing econometric methods based on the entropy principle; an interesting array of applications is presented in the second section of the volume. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9781848552609 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9781848552609 The Asian Economy with one common Asian Money is a frontier topic of study in supranational macroeconomics. Part of the "CEA Series", this book examines the prospects of, the justification for, and the implications of the development of a common Asian currency. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762313907 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762313907 Contains thirteen chapters on topics relating to worker well-being. This work deals directly with how economic institutions affect individual and family earnings distributions. It covers topics such as: job training, worker and firm mobility, unions, collective bargaining, minimum wages, unemployment insurance, and schooling. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780127466521 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780127466521 An econometric estimator is a solution to an optimization problem. This book provides the tools and concepts necessary to study the behavior of econometric estimators and test statistics in large samples. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9781559382083 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9781559382083 Discusses advances in applied microeconomics. This book overs issues such as efficiency in auctions when bidders have private information about competitors, lift-lining, the general double auction mechanism, and lottery qualification auctions. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762310418 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762310418 As an intellectual movement, entrepreneurial studies began about the same time as the Austrian revival. The beginnings of the entrepreneurship movement might be dated to sometime before 1978 when Babson College established its Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, the first such center in the US. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780125286329 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780125286329 The formal theory of bargaining originated with John Nash's work in the early 1950s. This book discusses the developments in this theory. It uses the tool of extensive games to construct theories of bargaining in which time is modeled explicitly, and also applies the theory of bargaining to the study of decentralized markets. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9781848553088 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9781848553088 Illustrates the scope and diversity of modern applications, reviews advances, and highlights many desirable aspects of inference and computations. This work presents an historical overview that describes key contributions to development and makes predictions for future directions. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:00:00 GMT