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Confessions of the pricing man : how price affects everything
The worldℓ́ℓs foremost expert on pricing strategy shows how this mysterious process works and how to maximize value through pricing to company and customer. ℗ℓ In this engaging and practical narrative, Hermann Simon leaves nothing out of the pricing cocktail, explaining each ingredient through dozens of stories collected over four decades in the trenches and behind the scenes. A world-…
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- 9783319204000
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- 338.544
Heavy-Tailed Distributions and Robustness in Economics and Finance
This book focuses on general frameworks for modeling heavy-tailed distributions in economics, finance, econometrics, statistics, risk management and insurance. A central theme is that of (non-)robustness, i.e., the fact that the presence of heavy tails can either reinforce or reverse the implications of a number of models in these fields, depending on the degree of heavy-tailed ness. These resu…
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- 978-3-319-16876-0
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- XIV, 119
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- 001 IBR h
Contemporary Issues in Microeconomics
With contributions from international scholars, this second volume by Joseph Stiglitz and Martin Guzman comprises of theoretical, empirical, and policy-based chapters which carefully utilize theory and data analysis. Part I focuses on the issues of global inequality, poverty measurement and security. Part II turns to the issue of income contingent loans (ICL), where the repayment in any year de…
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- 9781137529718
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- XIV, 198 pages
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- 338.71
Research Report on Corporate Social Responsibility of China
This book is compiled based on the research methodology and technical approach applied in the Blue Book of Corporate Social Responsibility. It consists of five parts: Summary, index, Industry, Case Studies, and Appendices. The index evaluates Chinese enterprises annually on their performance in CSR management and the level of information disclosure by assessing four different aspects: responsib…
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- 978-3-662-45363-6
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Reshaping Society through Analytics, Collaboration, and Decision Support
This volume explores emerging research and pedagogy in analytics, collaboration, and decision support with an emphasis on business intelligence and social media. In general, the chapters help understand where technology involvement in human decisions is headed. Reading the chapters can help understand the opportunities and threats associated with the use of information technology in decision ma…
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- 978-3-319-11575-7
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Contagion! : systemic risk in financial networks
This volume presents a unified mathematical framework for the transmission channels for damaging shocks that can lead to instability in financial systems. As the title suggests, financial contagion is analogous to the spread of disease, and damaging financial crises may be better understood by bringing to bear ideas from studying other complex systems in our world. After considering how people …
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- 9783319339306
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- ix, 139 pages
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Consumption-Based Approaches in International Climate Policy
This book analyses the potentials and consequences of a change from production-based to consumption-based approaches in international climate policy. With the help of an analytical model, the author investigates the effects of different policy variants on environmental effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, carbon leakage, competitiveness and the global distribution of income. The economic, legal, …
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- 9783319159911
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- xvi, 249 pages
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Conservation for cities : how to plan & build natural infrastructure
It's time to think differently about cities and nature. Understanding how to better connect our cities with the benefits nature provides will be increasingly important as people migrate to cities and flourish in them. All this urban growth, along with challenges of adapting to climate change, will require a new approach to infrastructure if we're going to be successful. Yet guidance on how to p…
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- 9781610915236
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- 268 pages
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Information Society Development through ICT Market Strategies Albania versus…
This book examines the relationship between information society and information communication technology (ICT) markets, while evaluating the ICT impact on Albanian society and its economy. It offers insights on the country’s information society development and compares it to other nations. The book begins with a general introduction to information society and efforts that can be used for I…
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- 978-1-4939-1814-0
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- XXI, 107
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Consumer Economic Wellbeing
This timely text overviews theories, concepts, and contexts relating to the emerging field of behavioral economics. Research theories and data gathered across psychology, sociology, marketing, finance, and other relevant disciplines are synthesized to identify and elaborate on the defining aspects of consumer economic wellbeing. Against a background of consumer rights and responsibilities, the …
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- 9781493928217
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