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Retirement on the Rocks: Why Americans Can't Get Ahead and How New Savings Po…
In the US, retirement savings are low while risk exposure is high, thus dooming many retirees to a low standard of living. This book offers straightforward solutions to build real retirement security for American families.
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- 978-1-137-57514-2
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New Economic Engine: Effective Government and Efficient Market
This book contains at least three main highlights: breaking through the limitations of the mainstream Western economics system and the market theory framework, correctly explaining the successful experience of China’s reform and opening up over the past 40 years from an economic perspective, and developing a new economics system and market theory. China’s reform and opening up and innovativ…
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- 978-981-15-2922-1
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- Economic
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- 338.1
Single Period Inventory Control and Pricing: An Empirical and Analytical Stud…
The price-setting newsvendor model is used to address the single period joint pricing and inventory control problem. The objective is to set the optimal price and replenishment quantity of a single product in order to maximize the expected profit. Products with a short selling season and relatively long replenishment lead times such as fashion goods are the most relevant application areas of th…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9783631753941
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- 116
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- Forschungsergebnisse der Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien
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- 332.4 ARI s
In Defense of Deflation
This book analyses the causes and consequences of deflation. In contrast to the widespread belief that deflation would be harmful to the economy as a whole, the author argues that free market deflation is liberating and beneficial. Several myths of deflation are exposed and the reasons for the widespread deflation phobia that serves to justify expansionary monetary policy, i.e., inflation are i…
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- 978-3-319-13427-7
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- XVII, 215
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- 330 BAG i
Applied Investment Theory: How Markets and Investors Behave, and Why
Institutions now dominate trading in equities around the world. Mutual funds are the most prominent, and doubly important as custodians of retirement savings. Despite this, there is no comprehensive description of fund manager behaviour, much less a matching theory. This is troubling because one of the most economically significant puzzles in finance is why experienced, well-resourced fund mana…
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- 978-3-319-43976-1
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- XXV, 246
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- 339 COL a
The Impact of Cartels on National Economy and Competitiveness
The book presents theoretical and empirical research on the integrated assessment of cartels’ effects on national economies. The empirical analysis is based on three cases in Lithuania, a country chosen because it corresponds to the features of a small economy with a developing culture of competition. An integrated assessment of a cartel’s impact by measuring the net economic effect created…
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- 978-3-319-17287-3
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- XX, 315, 26 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
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- The Impact of Cartels on National Economy and Competitiveness
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Annual Report on China’s Economic Growth: Macroeconomic Trends and Outlook
This book probes into China's economic growth in 2013 and predicts China's development prospects. China’s GDP growth in 2014 continues to slow down, and is expected to be 7.6%, with the CPI stable at a level of 2.5%. With the pressures of structural slowdown, 2014 will be a year of adjustment, and there will be a slowdown in new initiatives to minimize risk. Against a background of policies t…
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- 978-3-662-49050-1
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- VII, 198
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- Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path
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- 339 ANN a
The Global Crisis of 2008 and Keynes's General Theory
This book describes the international context and some of the factors that have weakened the influence of Keynesian economic thought. It illustrates economic responses offered by the new Keynesian school and the alternative perspective on the global crisis presented by the monetary circuit theory, with a special emphasis on Minsky’s financial instability hypothesis. The authors present a comm…
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- 978-3-319-11451-4
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- XII, 99 17 b/w illustrations ,
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Integrating Human Capital with Human Development The Path to a More Producti…
For the most part, human capital theory emphasizes human cognitive development and the acquisition of knowledge and skills that enable enhanced productivity and earnings. In light of recent research findings, particularly concerning neurodevelopment and early childhood development, it is becoming apparent that this standard version of human capital theory has a far too limited conception of hum…
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- 978-1-137-45674-8
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The Ownership of the Firm, Corporate Finance, and Derivatives
This book clarifies several ambiguous arguments and claims in finance and the theory of the firm. It also serves as a bridge between derivatives, corporate finance and the theory of the firm. In addition to mathematical derivations and theories, the book also uses anecdotes and numerical examples to explain some unconventional concepts. The main arguments of the book are: (1) the ownership of t…
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- 978-981-287-353-8
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- XII, 76
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- SpringerBriefs in Finance
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