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How could a small country in the middle of Europe, surrounded by much bigger countries and economic giants like Germany and France and in direct competition with North American and Asian rivals, develop world-class, cutting-edge financial markets? Swiss Finance answers this question, separating myth from reality, by explaining how Switzerland managed dramatic pressures brought to bear on its fi…
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- 978-3-031-23194-0
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- XXXVI, 612
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Transnational Entrepreneurship in South East Asia
Professor Yokoyama is the Dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration, Toyo Gakuen University, Tokyo, Japan, where she supervises research in the field of human resource management in Japanese companies by drawing comparisons between Japanese-style employment management and the merit-based systems. Her recent research is concerned with Japanese self-initiated expatriate entrepreneurs…
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- 9789813292529
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- XXI, 220, hlm,: ill, lamp;
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The Entrepreneurial Society: A Reform Strategy for Italy, Germany and the UK
This open access book is an outcome of the EU’s Horizon 2020 project ‘Financial and Institutional Reforms for an Entrepreneurial Society’ (FIRES). Building on historical, economic and legal analysis, and combining methods and data across disciplines, the authors provide policymakers, stakeholders and scholars with valuable new tools for assessing and improving Europe’s entrepreneurial e…
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- 978-3-662-61007-7
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- XVI, 252
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- 650.1
Globalization and History : the Evolution of a Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Ec…
Kevin O'Rourke and Jeffrey Williamson present a coherent picture of trade, migration, and international capital flows in the Atlantic economy in the century prior to 1914-the first great globalization boom, which anticipated the experience of the last fifty years.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262294300
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- 1 online resource (346 pages)
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- 380 ORO g
Emerging Capital Markets in Turmoil: Bad Luck or Bad Policy?
Analysis of financial crises in emerging market economies, including Mexico, Argentina, and Russia; traces the evolution of crisis theory and challenges the conventional wisdom.Since the mid-1990s, emerging market economies have been hit by dramatic highs and lows: lifted by large capital inflows, then plunged into chaos by constrained credit and out-of-control exchange rates. The conventional …
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- 9780262269728
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 547 pages) :illustrations
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An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets
This pioneering work in the social studies of finance describes how the emergence of modern finance theory has affected financial markets in fundamental ways. Paraphrasing Milton Friedman, the author says that economic models are an engine of inquiry rather than a camera to reproduce empirical facts.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262278805
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- 1 online resource (x, 377 pages) :illustrations.
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Capital markets union and beyond
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- 9780262354264
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- 1 online resource (384 pages).
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Planetary improvement :cleantech entrepreneurship and the contradictions of g…
An examination of clean technology entrepreneurship finds that ""green capitalism"" is more capitalist than green.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262346139
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- 1 online resource
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Household portfolios
Papers presented at the Conference on Household Portfolios, held in Florence, Italy, Dec. 17-18, 1999.Theoretical and empirical analysis of the structure of household portfolios.Until recently, researchers in economics and finance paid relatively little attention to household portfolios. Reasons included the tendency of most households to hold simple portfolios, the inability of the dominant as…
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- 9780262274517
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- 1 online resource (xii, 496 pages) : illustrations
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- 658 HOU
After America's midlife crisis
A longtime community organizer outlines a way to reverse the fifty-year decline in social mobility and economic progress. Michael Gecan, a longtime community organizer, offers in this book a disturbing conclusion: the kinds of problems that began to afflict large cities in the 1970s have now spread to the suburbs and beyond. The institutional cornerstones of American life are on an extended …
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- 9780262258791
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- 1 online resource (128 pages).
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