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Basic Income in Australia and New Zealand : Perspectives from the Neoliberal …
Basic income is an innovative, powerful egalitarian response to widening global inequalities and poverty experiences in society, one that runs counter to the neoliberal transformations of modern welfare states, social security, and labor market programs. This book is the first collective volume of its kind to ask whether a basic income offers a viable solution to the income support systems in A…
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- 978-1-137-53532-0
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- XV, 268
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Banks of the Future : Putting a Puzzle Together Creatively
This book will guide financial institutions in developing new approaches and solutions for handling perennial issues. Emphasizing the value of creativity for project management in the banking sector, the author provides new insights for all those working in banking and finance. Presenting a number of new, outside-the-box ideas, the book can be regarded as the missing spice that will creatively …
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- 978-3-319-07554-9
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- XXIII, 229
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Banking Crises : Perspectives from the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics
Why do banks collapse? Are financial systems more fragile in recent decades? Can policies to fix the banking system do more harm than good? What's the history of banking crises? With dozens of brief, non-technical articles by economists and other researchers, Banking Crises offers answers from diverse scholarly viewpoints.
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- 978-1-137-55379-9
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- XIV, 350
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- 332
Bangladesh's Leather Industry : Local Production Networks in the Global Economy
This study provides an overview of how the Bangladeshi leather value chain is organised and governed. It analyses how the leather processing and leather goods/footwear subsectors are integrated into the global market and to what extent informal arrangements including illicit practices are conducive to global market entry. Power relations are dissected along the value chain, in order to analyse …
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- 978-3-319-22548-7
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- XVI, 286
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Knowledge Capture in Financial Regulation: Data-, Information- and Knowledge-…
Eva Becker assesses the US financial crisis as a crisis of regulatory data, information and knowledge. Based on the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission’s interviews as well her own interviews, and drawing on Capture Theory and recent reformulations thereof, she develops “knowledge capture” as a theoretic framework to assess financial regulation under conditions of 21st century complexity.
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- 978-3-658-13666-6
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Backtesting Value at Risk and Expected Shortfall
In this book Simona Roccioletti reviews several valuable studies about risk measures and their properties; in particular she studies the new (and heavily discussed) property of "Elicitability" of a risk measure. More important, she investigates the issue related to the backtesting of Expected Shortfall. The main contribution of the work is the application of "Test 1" and "Test 2" developed by A…
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- 978-3-658-11908-9
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- XIX, 145
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Microeconomics : Theory Through Applications
Russell Cooper and Andrew John have written an economics text aimed directly at students from its very inception. You’re thinking, ”Yeah, sure. I’ve heard that before.“ This textbook, Microeconomics: Theory Through Applications, centers around student needs and expectations through two premises: … Students are motivated to study economics if they see that it relates to their own li…
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- 9781453313282
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- 330 COO m
Treatises on Solvency II
The European system of insurance supervision under Solvency II constitutes a parallel to supervision of credit institutions under Basel III. At the heart of this new European insurance supervisory regime are the Solvency II Directive, the attendant regulation, and the EIOPA Regulation. The present volume, "Treatises on Solvency II", includes articles on the bases of European insurance supervisi…
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- 978-3-662-51567-9
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- XXI, 478
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Transport and Logistics in a Globalizing World
Globalization of the economy, fragmentation of the production process, increasing externalization of TNCs activities through their global value chains and the widespread adoption of Just-in-Time have increased the flows of raw materials, intermediate goods and finished products, with a direct effect on the transport and logistics industry. This industry, indeed, plays a key role in connecting t…
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- 978-3-319-00011-4
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- XVI, 92
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- SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
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Institutionalization of State Policy
Using fresh evidence and a novel methodological framework, this book sheds light on how institutions have driven economic reform in China's urban housing sector. The book systematically analyzes the developmental role of the state in China, with rich empirical evidence to show how decentralization has brought about significant participation by the different levels of government with the central…
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- 978-981-287-569-3
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- XIII, 133
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- 330 ZHA i
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