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Advances in Happiness Research: A Comparative Perspective
This edited volume makes a contribution to the literature on happiness research by compiling studies based on cross-national research and from diverse academic disciplines. The book is distinctive in that it contains both theoretical and empirical analyses, investigating relationship between causes of happiness and economic behavior relating to employment, consumption, and saving. Most notably,…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-4-431-55753-1
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- XX, 344
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- Creative Economy
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- 330.07 ADV a
Lightweight Landscape: Enhancing Design through Minimal Mass Structures
This book explains how lightweight materials and structures can be deployed in buildings to meet high environmental and aesthetic standards and emphasizes how the concept of lightness in building technology and design dovetails with the desire to enhance landscape. The first part of the book, on lightweight construction, aims to foster the use of membranes within the specific climatic context a…
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- 978-3-319-21665-2
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Advances in Dynamic and Evolutionary Games: Theory, Applications, and Numeric…
This contributed volume considers recent advances in dynamic games and their applications, based on presentations given at the 16th Symposium of the International Society of Dynamic Games, held July 9-12, 2014, in Amsterdam. Written by experts in their respective disciplines, these papers cover various aspects of dynamic game theory including differential games, evolutionary games, and stochast…
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- 978-3-319-28014-1
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- XVII, 319
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- Annals of the International Society of Dynamic Games
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- 006.6 ADV a
Exploring the Strategy Space of Negotiating Agents A Framework for Bidding, …
This book reports on an outstanding thesis that has significantly advanced the state-of-the-art in the area of automated negotiation. It gives new practical and theoretical insights into the design and evaluation of automated negotiators. It describes an innovative negotiating agent framework that enables systematic exploration of the space of possible negotiation strategies by recombining diff…
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- 978-3-319-28243-5
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- 37 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour
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The Chinese Birdcage
This book vividly describes how China’s rise in the early 2000s led to rising profits and declining labor income everywhere, ultimately resulting in the global financial crisis. Under Deng Xiaoping’s policy of ‘reform and opening up’ in the 1980s, China quickly became the world’s factory floor...but powerful political leaders envisioned a world in which the market economy would be tra…
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- 978-1-137-58886-9
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- XVI, 197
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The China Path to Economic Transition and Development
This book by the renowned Chinese scholar Dr. Yinxing Hong provides the reader with a perceptive analysis of what has worked in China’s development model. Over the past 30 years, China has experienced a remarkable economic rise, but it now faces the challenge of switching the drivers of this economic growth, which have proven so successful. The path has not been an easy one, and many challeng…
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- 978-981-287-843-4
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- XXIII, 234
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Liberalizations in Network Industries: Economics, Policy and Politics
This book explores the wave of liberalization reforms experienced by OECD network industries. Focusing on the telecommunications sector, the authors analyze the latest data available on liberalization and privatization, and following a political economics approach, they integrate standard economic analysis with the most recent studies of the political determinants of market-oriented policies. T…
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- 978-3-319-43717-0
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The Challenge of the Digital Economy
This volume presents contributions that analyse the extraordinary impact of digital technology on business, services, and the production of value in many sectors of the economy. At the heart of this book is the fact that the entire digital economy is now worth almost 6% of global GDP, and it continues to grow at an unprecedented rate. The volume covers the general debate on taxation and the dig…
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- 978-3-319-43690-6
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- XVII, 148
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The Causal Relationship between the S&P 500 and the VIX Index
Florian Auinger highlights the core weaknesses and sources of criticism regarding the VIX Index as an indicator for the future development of financial market volatility. Furthermore, it is proven that there is no statistically significant causal relationship between the VIX and the S&P 500. As a consequence, the forecastability is not given in both directions. Obviously, there must be at least…
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- 978-3-658-08969-6
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- XIII, 91
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- BestMasters
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The Case of State Liability
In light of the 20th anniversary of the ruling in Francovich, Michael Haba analyzes the principle of Member State Liability, which provides a right to damages whenever EU law is breached by Member States. His research ascertains that the doctrine evolved through three stages before becoming the unified approach that it is today. The author emphasizes that the principle’s base lay at the outse…
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- 978-3-658-08080-8
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- XVII, 141
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- BestMasters
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