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This first volume in a series assessing international banking and finance focuses on the 'revolution' in international financial markets. Individual chapters deal with the impact of the Persian Gulf Crisis on national equity markets and foreign transmissions effects in Sweden.

Contains papers which were presented at the Energy and Resource Workshop Series at Texas A&M University. The topics presented at the workshops were forums for the discussion of research concerning the economics of energy and other natural resources.

This volume is one of a series of research annuals on qualitative research designed to take up issues and debates in this area that relate to methodology, the relationship between data collection and data analysis, and other topics.

In 1997, Science for Peace invited experts on Yugoslavia to Toronto for a conference to discuss the lessons learnt from the Yugoslav conflict and eventual break-up of the former country. This book addresses a specific range of problems. It contains papers on the analysis of the Kosovan conflict, and reviews the Yugoslav tragedy.

This volume focuses on theory and research which lends insight into how emotions are distributed, experienced and structured within five broadly conceived institutional areas. These are: medical and health care; family; work and leisure; education; and clinical/counselling.

Presents a set of papers that deal with the challenges of leveraging information technology. This book is aimed at designing inter-organizational relationships.

The world of business has always been considered quick and unforgiving, but it is certainly getting even quicker and less forgiving as we enter the the new Millennium. The volume articles presented here cover a wide range of current and future business issues.

Presents the international exchange of scientific information. This series represents a range of geographic and subject matter interests in economics, and includes books from various areas of macroeconomics and microeconomics.

Examines the role that brownfields redevelopment is playing and can play in our quest for sustainability, focusing on efforts in the US and Canada. This book looks at how brownfields are used as spaces for developing an array of residential, recreational, and employment-oriented projects that have breathed new life into the urban environment.

Managerial economics is the application of economic theory and quantitative methods (mathematics and statistics) to the managerial decision-making process. This book contains a chapter on game theory and on the time value of money and capital budgeting. It is intended for students with limited prior training in economics and quantitative methods.

Measuring the Demand for Environmental Quality

Dealing with the topic of international user interfaces, this book presents both general guidelines and a number of detailed case studies on the many aspects entailed. It is of interest to project managers, lecturers, students, developers of basic software and user interface designers.

Stochastic Models and Option Values

Divided into two parts, this book examines the relationship between elites, minorities, and economic growth. The first part contains essays on the role of economic and political elites in America, Europe and the Middle East. The second part contains essays on the role of minorities in past and present industrialization in Europe and Asia.

This book contains papers focusing on theoretical and empirical modelling of the labour market covering both wage equilibrium models and models for labour market transition. Contributions range from the theoretical or econometric through to empirical structural methods and exploratory data analysis based on employer and employee level data.

These papers were presented at the International Symposium of Linked Employer-Employee Data, Washington DC, May 1998, to address the creation and analysis of such matched data in an environment that safeguards respondent confidentiality, and looks at the analysis of such linked data, related econometric issues, and creating large-scale linked data.

In March 1998, professional colleagues and students of TN Srinivasan joined together at the Festschrift Conference at Yale to honor his work. This book contains 19 of the contributions which were presented, reflecting the 4 closely related dimensions of trade and development. It deals with the various dimensions of the issue of growth.

Considers the various topics in health economics including the production of and demand for health; the demand for medical care services; the financing of these services; the markets for physicians, nurses, dentists, hospitals, and drugs; the economics of substance use; health in developing countries; and, the economics of medical technology.

Many people think of 'social problems' as involving poor and powerless individuals in society. This work seeks to improve the balance by adding a focus on important and powerful institutions. It discusses policy sciences, public policy analysis and public management. It addresses operations and design issues for government organizations.

Proposes fresh perspectives in IB research by addressing a number of critical issues which criss-cross the fields of International Business and International Management. This work focuses on management of cultural distance across countries. It also focuses on the genesis and development of international entrepreneurs.

Contains papers presented at a conference, entitled 'Cutting Edge Theories and Recent Developments in Conflict Resolution'. This work explores some of the major themes of conflict analysis, including how dominant discourses can soothe and exacerbate conflict, and the importance of a structural understanding of ethnocentrism and racism.

Features articles on a variety of topics in management accounting that are relevant to researchers in both practice and academe. This work is suitable for management accounting scholars.

Corporate governance reform has become an important global policy agenda driven by events such as the 1997 Asian financial crisis, corporate scandals (such as Enron and WorldCom) and the globalisation of capital markets. This book advances debate on corporate governance, accountability and transparency in less developed and emerging economies.

Are employees encouraged to speak up or to pipe down? Do they share ideas openly or do they remain silent in ways that are hurtful to individuals and harmful to the functioning of their organizations? This collection of 12 essays addresses these and related issues from a variety of scholarly perspectives.

Medical Sociology is the among the largest and first subdisciplines in Sociology. This series presents issues and concerns in Medical Sociology.

Focuses on a range of fundamental issues in developing competence-base theory and in undertaking competence-based research intended to contribute to management theory development. This work assesses the areas in which restatements or extensions of competence theory may be needed or would be useful.

Covers credit risk and credit derivatives. This book offers several points of view on credit risk when looked at from the perspective of Econometrics and Financial Mathematics. It addresses the challenge of modeling defaults and their correlations, and results on copula, reduced form and structural models, and the top-down approach.

Focuses on one of the central themes in political sociology: the relationship between political power and the policy formation process. This work examines the exercise of power in two arenas: the interlocking networks among policy-planning organizations, and the effects of PACs on the voting behavior of elected officials in Canada and the US.

Much of the debate about health policy in the US has focused on the availability of health insurance coverage and the number of individuals who are uninsured. It is known that the United States spends approximately twice as much per capita on health care, but there is little difference in population health between the US and other nations.

Advances theory and offers tools for measuring value dimensions and strength. This work focuses on advancing value theory, research and strategy in business-to-business contexts. It is suitable for improving thinking, decisions, and actions relating to the creation, marketing, and purchasing of superior value in products and services.