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2024 | Book

New Initiatives in the Malaysian Capital Market

With a Focus on LEAP and SPAC

This book covers the most recent initiatives in the Malaysian capital market. In doing so, it discusses the Leading Entrepreneur Accelerator Platform Market (LEAP Market), and Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC).
With regard to the LEAP …

Authors:
Hon Wei Leow, Wee Yeap Lau

2024 | Book

Law and Economics of Justice

Efficiency, Reciprocity, Meritocracy

While previous volumes have examined specific issues and developments such as the coronavirus crisis or digital transformation from a law and economics perspective, the anniversary edition returns to the methodological and philosophical fundament …

Editors:
Klaus Mathis, Avishalom Tor

2024 | Book

The Economics of the Popular Music Industry

Modelling from Microeconomic Theory and Industrial Organization

This book uses economic theory to explain how consumers and producers have responded to major changes in the music industry. Byun examines the important role of technology in changing its structure, particularly as new methods of creating and …

Author:
Christie Byun

Open Access 2024 | Open Access | Book

Building an Olive-Shaped Society

Economic Growth, Income Distribution and Public Policies in China

This open access book offers a comprehensive analysis of China’s way of economic development balancing between efficiency and equity, striving to investigate existing challenges and to discuss the role of fiscal policies and philanthropy to …

Author:
CICC Research, CICC Global Institute

2024 | Book

Math for Business and Economics

Compendium of Essential Formulas

This 3rd edition revised and extended compendium contains and explains essential mathematical formulas within an economic context. Newly added content introduces the mathematical practical application of optimization by using the Lagrange …

Author:
Franz W. Peren

Open Access 2024 | Open Access | Book

Ireland's Long Economic Boom

The Celtic Tiger Economy, 1986–2007

This Open Access book examines the long economic boom experienced in Ireland between the late 1980s and 2007, analysing why this boom occurred.

The book situates Ireland as a relative latecomer to economic development, with specific challenges and …

Author:
Eoin O'Malley

2024 | Book

Climate Funds and Sustainable Development

Who Pays in the End?

​While significant attention has been devoted to achieving Sustainable Development Goal 13 (SDG 13) and scaling up climate finance for developing countries, the adverse impacts of funded projects on local communities remains inadequately explored …

Author:
Gonzalo Larrea

Open Access 2021 | Open Access | Book

Insurance Distribution Directive

A Legal Analysis

This open access volume of the AIDA Europe Research Series on Insurance Law and Regulation offers the first comprehensive legal and regulatory analysis of the Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD). The IDD came into force on 1 October 2018 and …

Editors:
Pierpaolo Marano, Kyriaki Noussia

2024 | Book

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Research in Management and Technovation

ICRMAT-2023

This book brings together selected papers from the Fourth International Conference on Research in Management and Technovation held in Hanoi, Vietnam, in 2023, with a focus on defining action-based plans around innovation and technology as tools …

Editors:
Thi Hong Nga Nguyen, Darrell Norman Burrell, Vijender Kumar Solanki, Ngoc Anh Mai

2024 | Book

Practical Credit Risk and Capital Modeling, and Validation

CECL, Basel Capital, CCAR, and Credit Scoring with Examples

This book provides professionals and practitioners with a comprehensive guide on credit risk modeling, capital modeling, and validation for Current Expected Credit Loss (CECL), International Financial Reporting Standard 9 (IFRS9), Basel Capital …

Author:
Colin Chen

2024 | Book

New Perspectives and Paradigms in Applied Economics and Business

Select Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Applied Economics and Business, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2023

This book features a collection of high-quality and peer-reviewed papers from the 2023 7th International Conference on Applied Economics and Business, which was held in Copenhagen, Denmark, during August 24-26, 2023. ICAEB is held annually as a …

Editor:
William C. Gartner

2024 | Book

Digital Governance & Security

Proceedings of the 3rd American University in the Emirates International Research Conference, AUEIRC'20—Dubai, UAE 2020

This book, and the papers published within it, delves into the topic of governance in a modern, digital age, deliberating upon digital finance, societal security, and digital governance, proving essential to governmental institutions …

Editors:
Asma Salman, Assem Tharwat

2024 | Book

Modern Money Theory

A Primer on Macroeconomics for Sovereign Monetary Systems

This book, a revised new edition, examines how money is created and how it functions within global exchange rate regimes to highlight how monetary policy can promote economic growth, full employment, and price stability. It provides an …

Author:
L. Randall Wray

2024 | Book

Digitalization and Competition Policy in Japan

This book organizes the intent and purpose of the Japanese competition law (Antimonopoly Act) to address the digitalized socio-economy and provides a detailed explanation of its basic content as well as advanced issues. It includes an overview of …

Authors:
Shuya Hayashi, Koki Arai

Open Access 2022 | Open Access | Book

Central Bank Policy Mix: Issues, Challenges, and Policy Responses

Handbook of Central Banking Studies

This is an open access book.

This book is an integration of keynote speeches, lectures, and related teaching materials during the five years of the "Central Bank Policy Mix: Issues, Challenges and Policy Responses" flagship program of the BI …

Editors:
Dr. Perry Warjiyo, Dr. Solikin M. Juhro

2024 | Book

Beyond Profit

The Humanisation of Economics Through the Theory of Equitable Optimality

This book advocates for a transformative shift in economics, emphasising the need to manage finite resources equitably while safeguarding universal well-being. It introduces the Equitable Optimality economic theory, departing from materialistic …

Author:
Samir Alamad

2024 | Book

Concordian Economics, Vol. 2

Some Applications

This is the second volume of a two-part series on Concordian economics, an innovative paradigm that builds upon the Aristotelian-Aquinian tradition of economic justice. Having introduced Concordian economics in the first volume as a compelling …

Author:
Carmine Gorga

Open Access 2020 | Open Access | Book

Planar Maps, Random Walks and Circle Packing

École d'Été de Probabilités de Saint-Flour XLVIII - 2018

This open access book focuses on the interplay between random walks on planar maps and Koebe’s circle packing theorem. Further topics covered include electric networks, the He–Schramm theorem on infinite circle packings, uniform spanning trees of …

Author:
Prof. Asaf Nachmias

Open Access 2019 | Open Access | Book

Data-Driven Policy Impact Evaluation

How Access to Microdata is Transforming Policy Design

In the light of better and more detailed administrative databases, this open access book provides statistical tools for evaluating the effects of public policies advocated by governments and public institutions. Experts from academia, national …

Editors:
Prof. Nuno Crato, Dr. Paolo Paruolo

2024 | Book

Deflation and Fiscal Deficits

Three Questions About Japanese Economic Policy

In this study on the Japanese economy, the author focuses on three problems related to economic policy and presents their answers. The author analyzes (i) what mechanisms exist for fiscal policy and the price level, (ii) whether the MMT …

Author:
Yoshikiyo Sakai